ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19966, 4 September 1926, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

The death of Algernon Lindo, piano and music examiner, at the age of 64 is announced by a Sydney cable.

Mr Walter Stalker returned to his home at Drummond on Monday after spending the week-end with friends at "Dun lan,” Waimahaka. A Press .Association cable message from Sydney announces the death of the Rev. Brother Augustine, a pioneer of the Marist Brothers order in Australia.

A New York message states: —It was decided on the arrival of his brother from Italy that Valentino’s body be taken to Hollywood to-morrow for burial. His many friends will be pleased to learn that Mr E. C. Hewat, BA., late rector of the Riverton District High School, who has been the victim of a serious illness, is now well on the road to recovery. Mr C. D. Mars all Day, 8.D.5., late of Otago University and Pahiatua, left by the Niagara from Auckland on Monday for the United States. Mr Day will take up postgraduate study at the University of Pennsylvania. Five members of the Queen’s Park Golf Qub, Messrs Tapper, Gellatley, Duncan, Tangney and McCurdy, motored through to Roxburgh last Thursday for the golf tournament, returning to Invercargill on Sunday evening. Mr Thomas Marr Timpany, at the request of a large number of co-operative factories, has consented to contest the Southland Ward (No. 9) of the Dairy Control Board, as an advocate of “safe and moderate control.” Mr Timpany’s nomination was sent forward yesterday. Mr Robert Conn, a well-known member of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, who with Mrs Conn has iveen spending sime months on holiday in Sydney, returned to Wellington by the Maheno. While in Sydney Mr Conn contracted an illness, but he is now completely restored in health. Captain F. A. Somerville, D. 5.0., A.D.C., was the guest of the United Service Club at a farewell dinner at Wellington. He will leave, accompanied by Mrs Somerville, for England by the Rotorua on September 11. Captain Cecil N. Reyne, who will relieve him, arrived on S turday by the Remuera. Mrs Reyne will follow later. A Christchurch Press Association telegram reports that subject to his acceptance of the position, Mr Thomas Vernon Griffiths, a member of the staff of St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, England, has been selected by the Canterbury Education Board as lecturer in music at the Christchurch Training College. In the event of his acceptance Mr Griffith’s duties will include the organising of musical instruction in the primary schools under the Canterbury Education Board. He will work in conjunction with Mr Douglas Taylor. Supervisor of Music in Schools for the Dominion. The Rev. Ernest Graham Guthrie, of Boston, who has arrived at Auckland, was born in Dunedin, and is a graduate of the University of New Zealand. For the past twelve years he has been the minister of a Congregational Church in the centre of Boston, and president of the Federation of Churches of Greater Boston. After a stay of six weeks in New Zealand he will go to London, and on his return to the United States will become the head of the church society that is to administer the resources left by the late Mr Victor Lawson, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Daily News, who left over £2,000,000, the greatest known single gift ever made for the purposes of religion. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Carter, general secretary of the Zenana Bible Medical Mission of India, has arrived in Wellington from Wanganui. Dr. Carter is on a special mission to New Zealand to convey greetings and express appreciation of the great part the New Zealand auxiliary of the mission is taking in spreading the Gospel among the women and children in India. He will also confer on ' arious matters which affect the mission’s well-being, and lay before interested New Zealanders details and the needs of the work in Indiai Dr. Carter, formerly a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England, comes with a letter of introduction from Lady Kinnaird, who founded the mission in 1852. For the past 16 years Dr. Carter has been secretary of the mission, and has visited all its centres in India. A Blenheim Press Association message announces that the death occurred yesterday afternoon under painfully sudden circumstances of Mr Edward Henry Penny, one of Blenheim’s best known and most highly esteemed public men. Mr Penny has been in indifferent health for two or three weeks. He was apparently in very good health yesterday morning but later in the afternoon was found dead in bed having apparently passed away quietly in his sleep. Mr Penny settled at Blenheim in 1885, purchasing a stationery and book business. He became mayor in 1905 and for a long period was a member of the'Wairau Hospital Board. He was prominently associated with the Methodist Church of which he was a lay preacher. In 1920 Mr Penny was vice-president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference and was a member of the Blenheim School Committee for nearly 30 years. He has been chairman since 1910. He was a member of the Wellington Education Board and chairman of the board of governors of the Marlborough College. In 1919 Mr Penny contested unsuccessfully the Wairau seat in the House of Representatives in the Reform interest.