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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18900, 26 October 1929, Page 8

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Mr Justice Adams' will return from Timaru this evening. Mr Cyril Ward, of Christchurch, was a passenger from by the 'erry steamer yesterday morning. Mr R. S. Kent, Railway Divisional Superintendent. . Christchurch,. is at present in Wellington on official business. He is expected back to-day. News has been received by cable from London that Mr Neill Matson, of Christchurch, has passed successfully his final and special medical examinations. A presentation to Mr Huxley Deal of a chiming clock on the occasion of his approaching marriage took place at the Victoria Brewery on Monday afternoon. The proprietor, Mr S. W. Hickmott, made the presentation. The death is announced from Dunedin of Mr L. C. Gooch, for 42 years an engineering traveller for Briscoe and Company. He was a well-known figure on the road and at one time he was a prominent representative cricketer.

Professor C. C. Farr, of Canterbury College, arrived from Wellington this morning. •

The following Members of Parliament were passengers on this morning’s ferry steamer: Messrs Clyde Carr, E. J. Howard, H. S. S. Kyi®, J- Kitchener, J. O’Brien, J. M. Macpherson. and F. Waite.

The following members of the Legislative Council were passengers from the north this morning: The Hon G. Witty, the Hon J. Barr, the Hon L. M. Isitt, the Hon G. M. Thomson, the Hon H. L. Michel, the Hon A. F. Hawke, and Colonel the Hon G. J. Smith.

The Rev James Burns, the eminent preacher and lecturer of London, who to-morrow is to occupy the pulpit at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church in connection with its 65th anniversary, will arrive from Dunedin this evening by the express. Mr and Mrs Burns will be the guests of Mrs Robert Malcolm, Park Terrace.