PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12721, 17 February 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Messrs J. Emerson and W. Cnampion left by the Arahura yesterday morning to take part in the swimming championships to be held at Auckland next week. gignor Boteoiii arrived in Nelson yesterday by the Mapourika to make arrangements for the dances, etc., in connection with the forthcoming Catholic bazaar. A Fremantle cable states that Sir Robert Stout arrived by the; Moldavia. Mr and Mrs. John Procter, of Poxton, have just celebrated their golden wedding. -There was a large family gathering, and-friends from different parts of the Dominion forwarded congratulations. Mr G. P. Brown j -of the "Evening Post" reporting staff, -jas accepted the position of editor and manager of the "Horowhenua' Chronicle," Levin. Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P., leader of the Opposition, has accepted an invitation from the residents of Hokitika to deliver a political address there prior to the commencement 01 next session. Mr. Alexander Reese, formerly of Christchurch, New Zealand, is now, with his wife, .engaged in missionary work at Estancia, Sergipe, BraziJ, South America. Mr Allison, the present Mayor or Christchurch, replying to a deputation, acocded to their request to allow himself to be nominated for a further term (says a Press Association telegram). A Wanganui Press Association message announces the death of Mr Harry Bullock, manager for A. Hatrick and Co., at the age of 36. The deceased was well-known and esteemed in business circles on the coast. . The late Yen. Arch-Priest :Le Menant des Uhesnais was 74 years of age. He was born in. France ,and worked for many years at priest in the slums of London. He came to New Zealand in 1881, and was one of the founders of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, and was the writer of a: number oi books and pamphlets in defence, of religion. Mr. J. H. Percy, who died at i'etoiie last week, formed one of the guard of honour' that escorted vhe Duke of Edinburgh from Wellington to Upper Hutt, when his Royal Highness visited New Zealand some forty years ago. Ho was born in Petone over sixty years ago, and spent the whole of his life in the district. A Tima-ru Press. Association wire states that Bishop Grimes, fourteen or fifteen other clerics, and a large number of the public, attended vie funeral of the late Yen. Arch-Priest Le Meriant dos Cresnais at.Temuka, yesterday. .^LTie Bishop pronounced a high panegyric on the decased.