PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18073, 11 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr E. P. Pridham has returned , from a visit to Auckland. A Sydney cable announces the ! death of Mr. John Jiunter, the well- I known boot manuiactuier. Mr. John Junes lias decided to ; revisit the scenes of his youth in Wales, which he left nearly fifty ' years ago. He will sail in April j next. Mr. Jones will have the best | wishes of the comniunfty for a pleas- ; ant voyage and a sate return. The funeral of the late Mr John Henry Lynch. who was u returned sol-1 dier, was held on Sunday. The cortege [ included many members ot the local U.S.A., and Mr G. Beckett was. official representative of the Association, j winch contributed a floral wreath as an ■ additional token of sympathy. Mr- J. L. Lohr, who many years ago was an occasional visitor to Wanganui in connection with J. C. I Williamson’s theatrical companies, I died at Waiwera, Auckland, on De- i cember 31st. His wife was well- ( known on the stage at Miss Kate Bishop, and his daughter, Miss Alarm Lohr, has achieved fame in London as a star at the Globe Theatre. Mr C. M. Berkeley arrived in town [ last evening to make arrangements lor I the staging or “"The Man i-rotn 10-j ronto” at the Opera House on Thursday 1 evening next. At, the meeting of the Quarterly I Board of Trinity Methodist Church ' last evening Mr John Stevenson re- i signed ln c office as senior circuit stew- : ard. a position he has filled lor upivi’ds ot lolly years. The Rev. H. L. Bia- | miros, who is absent on vacation, wr.uo I expressing regret at the loss the dim', li ( was sustaining, and, after ■ armly I eulogising Mr Stevenson’s long :m I loyal service, expressed the opinion mat his long and unbroken term of oil’i.o probably constituted a record in New Zealand Methodism. Members of tin Board spoke in similar strain and v.m ■ I the unanimous opinion that no man hud done more for the church and th* | cause of Christianity than the retiling; steward.