PERSONAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 23 June 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr T. Clifford, of Mauakau, is on a visit to Auckland.

Mr John Bigg, c.t-M.JLC., at present intends contesting the .-'cat of Wellington East in the Labour interest H the next general election.

To-day the Prince of Wales will attain the age of 2-5 years. The occasion however was not observed as a holiday by Government Departments or banks.

Dr. Cleary, Korean Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who has been ten weeks in hospital, has now returned to ilia home. His health, though not fully, established, is greatly improved.

Mrs Chicken, of Durham street, Levin, has received private advice that her son, Corporal. Q. P. Glaekco, is returning to the Dominion by the Mara* tea next month.

Mr A. E. Minton, of Otaki, left today for Rotorua, where he will spend s. fortnight’a holiday, and at the game time receive treatment for indisposition. i

■ Colonel E. H. Hiiey, late General Manager of Railways, left for England on Saturday by the Bemuera. He- wav accompanied by Mrs HHey.

The wedding took place at Palmerston .North oa Jose 74fe of Mr J. B. Adams, the well-known rxecfc* xte owner of Otaki, and Mbs Cissy Carry, until recently a member of the staff of Messrs Kirk and Bspley. of Otaki.

I The Ahtisg-Prime Minis!*., 'br ft*. A Hep, icterviewed by a “Times” representative, stated that <*»t Masses still hopes to catch the Niagara wt-:-a next she leaves Vancouver for Hew Zt-alar.d. AH the arrangement*, howfever, he added, may be upset by po#- | slide strike* in England. Colonel C. M. Gibbon, C-M-G., who held the.post.of Chief of the General Staff from the beginning of the war with Germany, left by the itesiuera oa .Saturday for London. He was accompanied by Mr* Gibbon ■ and daughter. It ■ Is t the' intention of ’ Colonel Gibbon to rattle .oa. his estate ia Ireland. ■, ,

Sir Joseph Ward sails on the Mauretania. on the 27th, and joins the Niagara at Vancouver. An old colonist in the person of Mr Janies roung died at Mcanee, Hawke’s. Bay, on Wednesday last, aged 85 years. Chief Judge Jackson Palmer, of the Native Land Court, who is laid up in hospital in Wellington, is still in a very serious condition. 1 Mr H. Witchcll, manager of the Bank er New Zealand at Otaki, leaves on his annual leave about the middle of this week. He will spend his holiday at Rotonfa. Mr Shaw will fill Mr Witchell’s place at Otaki during his absence.