MEMORIAL SERVICE.
THE LATE SIR JOSHUA WILLIAMS. (From Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, January 18. A most impressive service was held to-day at Lincoln's Inn Chapel in memory of the late Sir Joehua Williams, who was • a member of Lincoln's Inn. Lady Williams was present, and also, ac representing New Zealand, Sir Thomas Mackenzie. Among the barristers present was Mr Frederick Sharpe, representing the New Zealand Bar, of which the late Sir Joshua was so distinguished a member. It was notable that even amid the sombre black of the 'barristers present at the service had crept the signs of war, for one of the Lincoln's Inn barristers:appeared in khaki uniform. There were %lso New Zealanders in uniform among the large numbers at the service, present at the invitation of the Lincoln's Inn Bar; Lord Plunket, the Earl of Eanfurly and Mis 3 Mackenzie, Lady Findlay, Sir .Charles Lucas, Sir James and Lady Mills, Sir T. W. Parkinson, Lady Bell, Lieutenant-Colonel Gore Gillon and Mrs Gillon, Miss Wilson, Mrs Ritchie, Mrs Quick, Mr Arthur Rhodes, Mr R. S. Hemes, Miss Hindmarsh, Miss Gilkinson, Mr and Mrs John Cook, the I Misses MacLaren, Mrs Mercer, Mrs Kettle, Mrs E. Wood, Mrs McGowan, Mr C. W. Rattray, Mrs T. C. Williams, Mrs Gale, Mrs Ponsonby, Mr 3 Sidney Parry, Mise^Batch£lor f , ,Mrs Macintosh, Mrs George' Beetham, Mrs Oliver, Captain J. F. Parry, Mr Festing Jones, Miss Evelyn Thomson', Lieutenant-Colonel Bowler, .'Mrs Bollinson,. Colonel and Mrs Findlay, Lady and. Miss Russell, Mr YV. C. Butler, Br. and Mre Emslie, Mr and Mrs T. H. Hamer. The service was fully choral—Stanford's anthem, "Blessed are the Dead," and the psalm, ."0, God, Our Help in Ages Past"; "The Dead March in Saul" (Handel).
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 51, 29 February 1916, Page 8
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