PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15459, 11 December 1915, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr John Roberts, C.M.G., town yesterday. - Sir Joseph Ward returns to AVdUinjhWl ton to-night. ' Mr Frank Moorhouse, Conserrator,;fcM|§ Fish and Game at llotorua, left for inffial South yesterday on a visit of to the North Otago red deer herd. n view to reporting as to its tutumfp management. Ad vice has been received thai Mr' Stanley Duncan, of Park terrace, of the late Mr John Duncan, has falft&afo successful in passing the Australian- r V 5! tost, and has joined tho Mclbourtpl division of the -Motor Ambulance Cotjfcj]?'-* Word has been received that tenant-Colonel A. W. Andrew,Christchurcli, who has been in eom-'s- - of the 114 th Mahrattas in was recently ordered on active servi^lfe 1 [with his regiment. ... .. Brigadier-General Sir A. H. Russdt|j|l has replied to the Defenco congratulations upon his recent tion :—"Thanks for Honour entirely due to fino work of-%i New Zealand Mounted Brigade." >~£§p The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister .tf/ill Internal Affairs, returned from Springs yesterday. Ho leaves thisi|t| evening for Wellington, and will open"3f| the new hospital at Blenheim. next week. Our Duriedin correspondent 6ays thab i a private letter received from Egypt : 'a contains the information that Troop&r 5 William McCallum, who volunteered; for service from the Lawrence district, had fallen heir to a fortune estimated -i at £25,001) _

The Hon >. Minister of Justice, who concluded ins present recruitinp campaign in the South at Uunedin last nigni, win go North tonight. At- the Catholic Seminary. Green- -isjl! meadows, Napier, on Wednesday.morning, an ordination ceremony was conducted, when 1 his Grace Archbishop -S Redwood elevated the following candidates (who aro receiving Holy Orders) to the sub-deaconship:—Messrs C. J. Outtrim (Wellington), J. Rot She (Grev. ; :'B mouth} Kevin McGrath (Napier), j. Downing ( Waneanui). and D. H. (Wellington;/ An ordination will also be Ticid to-morrow, when the foregqing will be oievated to the deaconship. Three students will also be fiecrated priests of the Catholic Church. . ■They are; Messrs A. Cullen (Wellington). J. Stewart (Nelson), and B. Hyatt SI (Wellington). " ' JeS

The death is reported in Auckland. ofrjrali Mr -Vincent E. Rice, who was for manySpp years secretary of tho Auckland Eda-® cation Board. Ho saw service witli.' the militia during the Waikato war. and 1 became, a clerk in. the Provincial Cbnocil under Mr John Williamson, Supertn- A tendent of the Auckland Province. Sonic , | timo .after the abolition of the pfo--vinces Mr Rice tvas apDointed sccrotarv '||1 to the Education Board, which .offico He filled for upwards of thirty years, re-' tiring,on superannuation in 1909. Mr' Sag Rico was a prominent AngUdut'.v was a member of . the Svnodj, and'* fbfrSljlsg forty years: organist at the., <&urchiof :gjsp the Holy Sepulchre, Khyber-Pass.' ! j '-'-M Captain Henderson, the-popular musketry instructor for tho Canterbury <Jis-i ' ||f trict. who went to Egypt with the Main y Expeditionary Force, and was after- ' wards wounded on Gallipoli, is-at prosent in Eii'dsleigli Palace Hospital for.-Is Officers, London. His woundwas more serious than at first. reported. 'A -t% piece of slicll badly 6masbed IJiis'vleft leg below , the knee. It. wWi at«/s intended io amputatethe leg,', hntrab was afterwards decided" to allow. Captain, -■ Henderson to retain ifc.and take h»' /. chance. It is gradually petting bet- J ter, but, as he remarks, is about as M straight as a pig's hind leg, and will be. about an inch, short. Captain .Hen- Bp .dorson hopes to be _ able tocontintie his musketry instruction on his roturn to New Zealand. . At Bruton. Somerset, tho death took -111 place on October 24th. of • 'Mr - Harper, eeoond son of the lato Right Rev. rf. J. C. Harper, Bishop Christchurch' (writes | our London. c6rrespondent). Coming *to England ' ,I|iS many years ago, Mr and Mrs • Harper went to live in the Channel ;Mand#. v ;£|gg but .for the past seven years they had' resided at Bruton. For a long wjiile Mr Harper has suffered from diabetieß,. and this gradually brought on blindn?3iß. —at' first partial, and of # late_ year# nearly total. Tnis affliction did not'i||g prevent his doing a great deal of'usehll work locally until six months "H® interested himself by taking the chair ;||| at local meetings, visiting institutions in tho neighbourhood, and doing he could for the infirm and sidk, arid since the outbreak of war he had been successful in obtaining recruita for tho " Army. Mrs Harper survived v.her husband. He leaves a familyof ' three daughters (two of whom ar® married, and all are living England), and ■ five eons, all J.'of whom are married—one is in Welling- ijj|| ton, ono is farming.inßritishColumbiHj .psj another is Captain R.N., of tho ' >j%ff auxiliary cruiser Carmania, at present,-,'pp in ono of the Hoitte Fleet pS another is a Captain in tho Medit4rrahean Remount Service, and the is the Yen. Archdeacon C. C.' Harper, who recently arrived in England from/. ?, l£fp Wellington. , ]