PERSONAL.

Grey River Argus, 18 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mi George Stitt, of Westport, invites tenders for the purchase oi his well-known hotel, the Commercial, and other valuable Westport property. Full particulars appear in our advertising columns. Mr J. Charters, who is well-known and . highly esteemed on the West Coast is again paying the town a"•visit. after a long absence. Mr .Char- ' ters is representing an Auckland firm and will spend a few weeks in Greymouth. His many "Greymouth friends will accord him a hearty welcome. Mr and Mrs J. McKenzie, who have been on a holiday trip -to the North Island arrived home yesterday. Mr and Mrs Thos. Jones will. arrive home this evening after a pleajsant trip to Rotorua. ' Mr C. Walker, who has been for a considerable time in the cyclery workshops of F. C. Wade and Co., both in Greymouth and Hokitdka, has purchased the cyclery business m Westport of Mr F. O. Evans. . The fire bell in High St. was set going- iby some mischievous persons early on Sunday morning. It Is «» well to remind such gentry that they are liable to a penalty for such insane tricks. A man- named Stanley Rdss, one of the passengers who returned to Westport from the Grey roadstead b*y the Arahura, was arrested in West- ' port on a charge of alleged indecent assault on a youn<r woman, also a passenger. The accused was brought before Mr Rawson, S.M., and remanded till Saturday, pending the return of the chief witness, who went on to Greymouth. During the display of pictures at the Opera House on Sunday night,. Mr Tom Pollard made an appeal to the audience on behalf of the "Fresh Air Fund," and depicted the miseries of child life in the. slums of London, and the taste of happiness which a day in the country means to these waifs and strays. As a result of the appeal over £11 was collected in the . house. Rev. H. Bradock temporarily succeeding Mr McFarlane for nis 7<umara 'district, held his first service at Otira and Jacks ons this week. Mr Braddock is an experieenced Australasian evangelist, with a special gift for the youn. The welcome to him, voiced by Mr Riseley and arranged at Otira, was held last Wednesday in the hall kindly lent iby Rev. Mills, and which was filled ; the ladies dispensing refreshments after the meeting. A mission was arranged ■nexit , day. The missioner i returned thanks for, the hospitality given him. By a private lettter from a friend , residing at Auckland, we learn ' that eleven fatal cases of plague occurred there latel, and m c:uh ca?<the house in which the death of cur- . red was burnt down Evidently the Aucklanders do not intend to t«?ke any more plague chances. They have set about thoroughly cleaning the town, and have appointed an additional lot of sanitary inspectors to hunt up all the foul places in the city and see- that the seeds of pestilence are rooted out