PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15268, 3 May 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr .1. l>. Reid, of Windsor Park, Eklorslio, :s leaving on a pleasure trip to England in about a fortnight's time. Mr E. 11. Guthrie, cf tins Oamaru Post Office staff, hns joined the reinforcements at Trentham. Mr Justice Donniston returned to Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning. Dr. 'William McKay, of Grey mouth, is now in the North of France with the French lied Cio.ss .Medical Corps. M r John Crozier. an old resident of New Plymouth, died last week, aged Sl> year.-!. Mr J. G. Poyuter. postmaster at Otaki, has been appointed to tlio charge of the Post and Telegraph office at i'aeioa. Miss E. Lynch, M.A.. of "Whangarci High School, hns been appointed assistant mistrVss at the Wellington Girls' College. Mr N. V. Constable, mercery buyer for Messrs Saijiood, ?>on and Kwen. nas ••eon appointed manager 01' the firm's Napier branch. Mr Gerald Foil, tlie uell-known Wellington solicitor, ha> enlisted in the forces to be trained for services abroad. He is to go into camp as a .-ergeant (on probation). Mr "David Wait, who has been teller in the Nelson branch of the National Bank of New Zealand for about twenty years, lias been transferred to the head office of the. bank at Wellington. Mr L. 11. Corsbie, assistant auctioneer at tho Tiru&ru offices of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., has boon promoted, to the position of chief auctioneer at the Christ-church branch, .Mr A. D. Cox, the well-known New Zealand tennis lilayer, has arrived m 'iVo'dinirton, furlougjh, with Airs Cox. fiun where ho is on the sts.tl of the Neiv Zealand Insurance Company. Two interesting arrivals in New Zealand from Belgium ;iro Madamo Liua Nyberg and Mons. Paul Crets-fc>al-<!aigne, who were appearing in grand opera at. tho Theatre Hoyal, Antwerp, when the war broke out, and only left when tho actual bombardment of tho city commenced. Mr L. W. L'Estrango Edwards, who has taken his degree at Cambridge, and is .1 member of the English Bar, has been twico refused admission to Kitchener's Army on account of ill-nealth, is at present in a. nursin<r homo in London, and will join his father. Mr Justioo. Edwards, soon as he is ablo to j travel. The llev. Jasper Smyth arrived in Christcburch on Friday from Stewart Island, where, he has been taking clcn<:al work for the past three months. He wiil return to Ktoivart Island this week, as he was unanimously requested by tho congregation to continue his ministration there, and has consented to do so for six mouths. Mr Kenneth Watkins, drawing master at tho Auckland Grammar School, has resigned his position after twentysoven years' .service under the Board of Governors. His connexion with secondary education in Auckland dates back to tho foundation of tho Girls' High School in IS7S. Mr Watkins intends to lcavo New Zealand. Mi- Robert Simpson, of Hunterville, third son of tho Hon. 11. X, Simpcon, M.L.C., died last -week, aged 48. Ho was one. of the first settlers in Rangitikoi district, having gone to Huntervillo about 33 years ago. Ho went to tho Boer war with the third New Zealand contingent, and saw a good deal of tho operations connected with tho earlier contingents. : Miss Nina O'Flynn, who was brought out from England by tho Government, and was for some timo acting as submatron at tho Sunnysido Mental Hospital, left Wellington for Sydney by tho Moeraki last week, to connect "with the Ox-nrah for London. 3Jiss O'Flynn" intends to go straight to tho front as a nurse. She was cabled for, and has had a Rtation allotted her. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Captain T. H. Chudleigh, R.N.R., has been appointed t> succeed tho Into Captain C. Evans as Marino Superintendent for tho Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. at Wellington. Captain Chudleigh, who has been in command of the liner Pakeha.- left that, vessel on Saturday, and she proceeded on her voyage to London under the chief officer. Captain S. Kelly. Mr Robert Coneys, whose death by suicide was reported from Sydney on Friday, was a native of Portobello, Dunedin, and went to Australia as a youth. A few years ago he returned to Now Zealand and inherited a sum of money from an "uncle who was gaoler jxt Point Halswcll. Ho was in business in Kaikoura, and subsequently lived at Waipukurau. Mr James Grover, late gunner of the Bengal Horse Artillery, died at his residences, Kilbirnie, Wellington, last wool?. Deceased had attained the a_e of 75 years. Ho served throughout tho Jn--1 dian Mutiny, and was in several engagements with the lato Lord Roberta, who was then a lieutenant. In ono ongagement he was wounded on tho head with a sabre. Tho Indian Government granted him a pension of £1 per week. Mr William Reach, a pioneer of the Auckland ard Thames districts, died 1 in Auckland recently. He carao to New I Zealand in a sailing ship in tho 'sixties, j and was for some years in business in Auckland. Ho was at Thames when the mining boom was in full force, but later returned to Auckland, and went into business at Newmarket. He married a cousih of tho late Sir William Russell, and leaves a family of two sons arid two daughters, four grandsons, and three granddaughters. ; Mr Charles Sinclair, who has been a member cf the teiegraph despatch staff in Christchurch for a number of years, has been transferred to a similar position in tho Auckland office. On tho ovo of his departuro he was presented with a handsome travelling bag from the .staff by Mr A. J. C. Talbot, Superintendent of Telegraphs. At tho same timo Mr D. Fabian was tho recipient of a gold pin upon his transfer to the Oamaru Telegraph Gallery. At a special meeting of tho Canterbury Hebrew congregation yesterday the" Board of Management's report with reference to the llev. I. A. Bernstein's resignation was adopted. A vote of appreciation of the minister_6 past nine years' service was unanimously passed, and it was decided to hand "the reverend gentleman a cheque for one year's stipend. The Rev. Mr Bernstein, who is Jewish chaplain to the New Zealand Forces, has accepted the position of chaplain to tho Jewish members of the next Australian force leaving for tho front. Mr Bernstein leaves, with his wife- and family, on Wednesday for Sydney. Prior to his departure for_ the Trentham Camp, Lieutenant C. X, Deo was entertained at a farewell gathering by tho chairman and staff of tho Ashburton County Council. Tho chairman (Mr C. J. Harper) remarked that Lieutenant Dee had been a member of the Council's clerical staff since his boyhood. Tho Council was sorry to lose his services for tho timo being, but Lieutenant Dee had set a fin« examplo to many other young fellows in tho county." He then, on bcJiaif of the staff, "presented Lieutenant. Deo with a wristlet watch, find said that a cash present would follow him to the Trentham Camp. The chairman further added that he thought he could promise that tho Council would keep his position open for him, and otherwise look after" his interests while lie was away. Mr Hugo Friedlandor remarked that from what he -knew of Lieutenant Dee- ho would do as well in iho field as he had done in the office, where

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