PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL

A bulletin issued on Thursday regarding Princess Beatrice, the Queen’s aunt, who underwent a preliminary operation for the removal of a cataract from her right eye, states that the Princess had a somewhat disturbed night, but the condition of her eye was very satisfactory.

Canon J. R. Wilford, head of Christ’s College Collegiate Department, and well known as the founder of St George's Hospital, Christchurch, has resigned his position as principal of College House on account of the health of his wife. His resignation will take effect as from the end of the year.

At Invercargill on Wednesday Mr. P. A. de la Perrelle, M.P. for Awarua, was married to Miss Perth McLean, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lindsay McLean, of Perth, Western Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Perrelle left on a wedding tour to Sydney. Mr. E. E. Bailey, who was formerly a student at Auckland University College and later a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, has succeeded in gaining his doctor’s degree in law at Oxford. Mr. Bailey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bailey, Otahuhu. He was educated at the convent school at Otahuhu and at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. He qualified for the degree of bachelor ot laws and master of laws with first-class honours at Auckland University College, gaining also the senior scholarship tn law. He was elected to a Rhodes Scholarship in 1028 and left for Oxford the following year. During his three years at Oxford Mr. Bailey has been working under the personal supervision of Sir William Holdsworth.

Tho death occurred at Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, on May 9, of the Rev. Dr. Janies Gillan, one of the best-known personalities in the Scottish Church. He was in his 85th year, and the 61st year of his ministry in the Church of 'Scotland, The greater part of his life was given to the service of his Church in charges first in his native Aberdeenshire and later in Edinburgh, but he became known to many New Zealand soldiers m wartime through his having charge ot Scots Church at Cairo. From Scots Church in Brussels he went to Cairo in 1912, and continued a most useful and influential ministry there until 1917. “To hundreds of men who passed through Cairo on their way to and from the Eastern theatres of war,” says a writer In the Scotsman, “his name remains synonymous with high infectious courage and brotherly kindliness.” Since the close of the war Dr. Gillan had lived in Edinburgh. . ]