PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

The death is reported from Itojio of Cardinal Benzam, Papal Secretary. Mr. P. Higgins left Hastings this morning for Auckland. Mr. R. Bruce, of the Hastings Post and Telegraph staff, left this morning for Wellington on promotion. Sir Andrew Bussell left Hastings this moinmg for Wellington, where he will meet the Rt. Hon. L. M Amery and Mrs Ameiy. The death of Mr. Alfred Thomas Ware occurred at the Napier Hospital on Saturday, at the age of 70 .years. The funeral took place at the Parke Island Cemetery at 3 p.m. to-day. It is reported that Admiral Baito is retiring from the generalship uKorea on the ground of ill-health, states a Tokio cable. He will t, succeeded bv General Yamanashi. Professor A. C. Paterson, nroft-ssor of 'classics at Auckland Untvorsily College, left for Sydney on Friday by the Maunganui, He intend? visiting South Africa, and will be absent for some months The flags at the Hastings Club and over Messrs Williams and Kettle’s offices were flying at half-mast to-dav, out of respect to the memory of Sir. L. H. McHardy. Mr. Edmund Fenton Kroad, well known in the timber industry, is dead, says a Sydney cable. A’t one time he was manager of the Kauri Timber Company, Auckland. At a Scots’ luncheon at Melbourne, the Governor, Lord Somers, claimed that his pedigree entitled him to represent the British in general. He had, respectively, French, Irish and Scottish great-grandfathers and an English mother. Mr. Richard E. Jamieson, aged Hl years, managing director of thn Gregory Tyre Company. Vancouv.--. died on Thursday of acute gastci'.is aboard the Aorangi when rearing Honolulu, and was buried nt «eu was on a business trip bound for New Zealand The appointment is announced from Rome of Cardinal Bunavonrura Cerretti as Cardinal Legato at. Hie World Eucharistic Congress to 'ri held in Australia Cardinal Cerreib has been Papal Nuncio in Paris a>.<’ was the Pone's representative i:t the Peace Conference Mr. C C. Dacre, the New Zealand cricketer, hag accepted Gloucestershire’s offer and leaves in Mar-h for a four-years’ engagement, the first two of which are required to qualify for the county, states an Auckland Press Association message. Dr. T. J. Hughes, medical offii»-r of health at Auckland, left Tor Sydney by the Maunganui on Friday, en route to Delhi. India, where he will represent the New Zealand Government at a conference regarding tropical diseases, to bn held under the auspices of the League of Nations early bn January. The Rt Hon. L. M, Amery nntved in Wellington from Palmerston North on Saturday. He will be the quest of the Governor-Genera] in Wellington Ho stated hp was impressed with tinvery efficient organisation of the dairying industry of New Zealand, but it and other industries would require oven better organisation Dr. A W. Hill, F.R.8., C.M.G., Director of the Horticultural Gardens at Kew r London). proposes to visit New Zealand in January next, nnd the Nevz Zealand Institute of Horticulture tn making arrangements for a gathering in Wellington, when those mtorestod in horticulture will be given an opportunity of meeting him. Dr. Hill is the leading figure in thEmpire's horticultural world, and it is anticipated that his visit will do much to further the interests of horticulture throughout New Zealand

The death occurred suddenly at Wellington on Saturday of Mr. Peter Gates Morgan, Director of thn Geological Survey Department. Mr Morgan was born in Tasmania 60 years ago. He graduated from Otago School of Mines and since has been connected with the various mining schools in New Zealand. From 1905 to 1911 he was geologist for the New Zealand geological survey anti when this was completed received the appointment he held at his death.

Mr. Samuel Charlton, an erstwhile popular resident of Hastings and » licensee of the Carlton Chib Hotel, has sold out his interest in the Spa Hotel. Taupo, to Mr. A H. Nowdick, of Auckland, who will enter into possession on December 5. .Mr. Charlton, who has conducted the Spa Hotel so successfully for the past five years intends leaving for Auckland next week in order to recruit his wife's, and also his own. health, after which thev will take up their residence in Hastings.

Lord and Lady Hastings na-«e hurried marriage m 1925. on the das prior to Lord Hastings’ departure fcr Australia, to manage a sheep fann caused his father (the Earl ot Huntingdon) to announce that he did not consent, have returned to Umdon from the South Sea Island of Moorea, 20 miles from Tahiti, where Lord Hastings is engaged in copra ana vanilla plantations. Thev declare that the Pacific Islands are unspoiled and unexplored and the only place to live in perfect happiness. Thev are to turning there after a holiday. Lora blastings added: “I am afraid ths announcement of my marriage was rather a shock to my relatives. Hnp pilv my family have now quite recovered.’’