PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Higham, who has been for a trip to the Old Country, returned last week. Mr. W. E. (“Pussyfoot”) Johnson is on a visit to Rotorua. He intends to return to Wellington this week, and will leave for America at an early date. A London message reports the death of Lord Marcus Beresford, extra equerry and manager of the King’s thoroughbreds. He managed the Sandringham stud. Nelson reports the death of Mr. Charles John Harley, aged 62, a leading solicitor, a former Mayor, and a trustee of the Cawthron Institute. He was one of Nelson’s most valuable citizens. Mr. Albert E. Cohen, aged 65 years, sub-editor of the Dunedin Evening Star, dropped dead when entering the Commercial Travellers’ Club on Friday. Deceased is understood to have suffered from heart trouble. He is a brother of the Hon. Mark Cohen. M.L.C., and is survived by a widow, a son (Mr. Harry L. Cohen, theatre agent), and two unmarried daughters. The Opunake Times hears that, the Rev. Charles Palmer, who lately left Opunake to pay a visit to England, contemplates remaining there. He will be greatly missed, not only by his parishioners in Opunake, but by a host of other friends, who will still continue to hope that he may one day return again to New Zealand. To Mr. Palmer the credit of the establishment of the Opunake Hospital is largely due. Private advice has been received that the Rev. R. S. Gray, of Wellington, died suddenly on Saturday night. Mr. Gray had been secretary of the Baptist Union and Missionary Society of New Zealand. He was for some years minister at Nelson, then of the Oxford Terrace Church, Christchurch, and later of the Hanover Street Church, Dunedin. For the past few years he has devoted his whole time to the work of the Baptist Union of the Dominion. Three years ago he led the prohibition party in New Zealand as president of the Alliance, and was known as a most effective platform speaker. He was a man of singular personal charm and magnetic speech. He was in his 57th year, and leaves a wife, three sons and a daughter.