ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21362, 7 April 1931, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

The Hon. William Stevenson, M.L.C., will be a passenger for Wellington by the express this morning. Dr Basil L. Wilson, acting superintendent of the Southland Public Hospital, returned to Invercargill by the express last night. Several Invercargill riflemen who competed in the Otago Rifle Association’s annual Easter meeting at Dunedin returned by last night's express. The Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, who spent the Easter holidays at Winton, will return to Wellington by this morning’s express. Mr J. Linklater, M.P. of Manawatu, accompanied by Mrs Linklater, arrived in Invercargill last evening. They will leave for the north again this morning. A Press Association message from London says that the Australian Press Association understands that Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney, is likely to be elevated to a cardinal at the end of the month. A Wellington message announces that Archbishop Redwood will celebrate his 92nd birthday to-morrow. He is in very good health and still actively interested in everything that concerns episcopal effort in this country. Katherine Tynan, the novelist and verse writer, whose death was announced last week, was born in Dublin County, Ireland. She began writing when 17 years of age, and published her first volume of verse in 1885. In 1887 she turned her attention to prose and produced a long list of novels, the last of which was published last year—“ The Admirable Simmons.” Her recreations she declared were “talking to a good listener, the companionship of dogs, collecting china and the society of her children.” The death occurred in Wellington on Friday of Mr Joseph Dwyer, proprietor of the Midland Hotel since its erection fourteen years ago. The late Mr Dwyer was born in Dublin and educated in Manchester. He came to New Zealand in 1902. and has been engaged in the hotel business continuously. A patron of all forms of sport, he was for many years a prominent member of the Wellington Racing Club, and was a life member of the Wellington Rugby Union. He was president of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers’ Association for a long period. His widow and one son, Mr Frank Dwyer, survive him. Mr R. Dwyer, of Wellington, is a brother, and the late Archdeacon Devoy was an uncle. The death has occurred in Ashburton of Mr John Lane, aged 81, of the firm of Lane, Walker, and Rudkin, proprietors of the Ashburton Woollen Mills. The late Mr Lane came from Scotland to New Zealand with his wife and family in 1881. He obtained employment with the Dunedin firm of Ross and Glendining, proprietors of the Roslyn Woollen Mills, as a wool classer and wool buyer. In the ’nineties he joined with five others in the purchase of the Timaru Woollen Mills, and at the end of the partnership period of ten years Mr Lane, with one of his partners, Mr Pringle Walker, retired from the Timaru concern and acquired the Ashburton Woollen Mill, which later amalgamated with Rudkin’s hosiery factory in Christchurch. Mr Lane was a familiar figure at wool sales in various parts of the Dominion, but it is some years since he retired from active participation in business. He was one of the founders of St. Andrew’s (Presbyterian) College in Christchurch, and for a period was a member of the Board of Governors of that institution. He was twice married, and is survived by his widow, six sons, and one daughter. Mr A. B. Lane, manager of the Press Association, Wellington, is his second son.