PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 10

PERSONAL.

The ~Rov. J. H. McKenrie has resigned from Nelson Presbyterian Church, of which he has been minister for the past 25 years.

Mr. Jackson Palmer (Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court) arrived by the express yesterday.

Mise A. E. Murphy. w*o hae been on active service as a nursing sister, returned by the Tnrakina this morning from England.

An old resident of Auckland, Mrs. Ann Rosser, died at her residence. Haslett Street, Eden Terrace, yesterday, at-the ripe age of 8.4 years. Her husband died about a couple of months ago. Deceased was an aunt of Mr. Arthur Rosser.

Commissioner H. C. Hodder, of tho Salvation Army, arrived by the express from Palmerston North, and to-day visited the institution at Rotoroa Island. To-morrow the Commissioner speaks at the barracks, Albert Street, Newmarket, and Kdcn.

The Rev. l>. C. Brady, having resigned the cure of St. Andrew's Anglican Church, South Canterbury, after 36 years' service." lie will be succeeded by the Eev. E. K. Mules.

'Major P. B. Greenhough leaves by the express to-morrow to take up a temporary appointment on the Headquarters Staff at Dunedin.

Mr. F. W. Mansfield. RegistrarGeneral, retires shortly on acconnt of ill-health.. At present Mr. Mansfield is on leave of absence. He has been 43 veara in the Public Service.'

Lieutenant E. M. Belcher, an officer in the -Australian Expeditionary Foroe, vac a passenger by the Turakina from Plymouth, en route to his borne in Melbourne. He was through the fighting in Gallipoli and was wounded.

• Mr. Robert Harkneae,. a well-known composer of evangelistic, hymns, arrived by,, the Turakina from-England,'accom-panied by his wife. Both were associated with the Chapman-Alexander mission during their last visit to. New Zealand, and the latter will be remembered ac the poeeeaeor of a cultured inezzo-eoprano voice. . ~..;.