PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 52, 1 March 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Cerretti, the Papal delegate, leaves Lyttelton for Sydney to-day. Mr. C. B. Buxton, of Wellington, is staying at Cargen. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., has gone to Dunedin for a month's vacation. , Mr. Thomas Hastie, an Otago*pioneer, has just died at Oamaru, aged 86 years. , He first landed in New Zealand in 1848. , Dr. A. W. Avcrill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, returned last night by the Manaia after a visit to the North. Tlie Rev. C. CT Oldham has accepted, a call to bo vicar of Waihao, South Canterbury, in succession to Rev. F. Dunnage. Mr. Richmond Seymour, who died recently at Nelson, aged 90 year 3, arrived in Wellington in 1840. Mr. C. E. Mackay, Mayor of Wanganui, son of a former headmaster of Wellington College, has enlisted. The Rev. Joseph Carlisle, of the Baptist Church, North East Valley, has accepted a unanimous call to Gisborne Baptist Church. He was at one time a member of the Primitivo Methodist body. Mr. W. M. Smith, local manager of the branch of the Bank of Australasia at Wanganui, was presented with a purse of sovereigns, upon his retirement after many years' service. Official intimation has been received by Messrs. Benson Wyman, William R. Tuck.and John Scott tnat the English examiners advise that they have passed the examination for the degree of Master of Laws. Mr. Warwick St. G. R. Wilson, of "the legal firm of'Wynyard, Skelton, and Wilson, was yesterday married at St. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, to Miss Me'rthyr T. W. Lewis." Miss Dorothy Denniston was bridesmaid, and Mr. Rupert Mackay -was best man. The Rev. D. Madill, who tendered his resignation as minister of the Presbyterian Church at Papakura owing to 1 illhealth, has been persuaded to withdraw it and take three months' leave of absence. He and his family have left'for Cheltenham, where Mr Madill intends' lo spend part of his leave. Mr. R. J. Terry, Government Poultry Expert in Tasmania, ,is at present on a visit to New Zealand, and was welcomed last evening at the Trades Hall by a. meeting of persona interested in, poultrykeeping. Mr. Terry spoke to the meeting for several minutes, indicating the strides that had been made in poultrykeeping in Tasmania. of recent years. - The Rev. S. J. Baker, who.was injured in the recent Tasmanian railway "accident, was not the former pastor of the Congregational Church at Palmerston: A cable-has been - received-from that gentleman by* his, son, Mr. Sydney d. Baker, of 'Wellington, stating he was away on vacation in the north of Tasmania at the time. The victim of the accident was a clergyman of the Anglican Church.