PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16473, 17 March 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

(from OUR own correspondent.)

LONDON. December 27. The Rev. Dudley B. Ashford, who was in New Zealand for some years before returning to England in 1916, and has siiico been co-pastor at AVood Street Congregational Church, CardiiT, lias received a call to tho pastorate of the Congregational Church at St. John's, Newfoundland. The position carries with it the chairmanship of tho Home Mission Board of Newfoundland, Tho estate in England of tho la to Mr Campbell lias been sworn a® £464 17s, and £330 8s Dd net.

Commissioner Howard, Chief of Staff of the Salvation Army, has sent in his resignation after 37 years* service. lie will leave early in tho Now Year for Australia, Now Zealand, Canada, and the United States.

Mr J. C. Morrison, formerly of "Wellington. was the manager and organiser of the great concert given by tho band of tho Guards Regiments in the Albert Hall on tho evening of Boxing Day. Tho occasion was a unique one, and the concert was in every respect successful. Besides the programme given by the bands, Madame Ada Crosslev and Miss Carrie Tubb sang several songs, one of them bein."an unaccompanied duet, "Ye Banks and Braes." In tho Royal Box wero Queen Alexandra, Princess, Christian, Prince Nicholas of Roumania, tho Duchess of Albany, Princess Alice, and a number of other members of tho Royal family. Mr Morrison, who is. a brother of the late Major W. C. Morrison. N.Z.S.C., of Christchurch, left New Zealand some years ago, and was associated for some time with tho Exhibition branch of the High Commissioner's Department. Since then he has been in journalism. Mr and Mrs J. H. P. Strang (Palmerston North) are intending to leavo for New Zealand early in March, joining the Makura at "Vancouver. In 1915 Mr Strang arrived in England on behalf of the Patriotic Society of Palmerston North to see after various wounded New Zealanders. Very soon afterwards lie started driving a Red Cross ear in France, and this work ho has continued until quite lately. In appreciation of his services ho received the Croix de Guerre.

Dr. E. G. Joseph, who recently quali£i rc ~^ inbl J r ? ri A and is nolvr the blietheld Iloyal Infirmary, was educated at Wanganui College, and took two years of his medical course at Ota2o University before joining the Ofcago .Mounted Rifles. He was badly wounded at Gallipoli, and, on being discharged from the Army, joined the University of Edinburgh. Last October Dp. Joseph took his M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. of England, and ho lias now taken the M.8., Cli. B. of Edin. burgh. He will probably remain as casualty officer at tho Sheffield Infirmary for a year. Tho following havo been* elected members of the Royal Colonial Institute: Mr Edward R. Ludbroolc Mr Edward H, Mann (Gisborne), Mr David A. Strachan (Napier), Mr William J Wheeler (Gisborne), and Mr Rupert Worley (Wellington).

n January 21. Mr J. Bronte Gatenby (Wellington) late Exhibitioner of Jesus College, Oxford, and Senior Demy of Magdalen College, who has been lecturing in histology in the School of Medicine at Oxford, has been appointed seniorassistant in zoology and lecturer in cytology at University College, London. Mr Gatenbv was a student at St. Patrick's, Wellington, and Wanganui College, and came to Oxford in 1912.

A week before the arrival of Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward at Panama. "The Times" included their names in a long list of celebrities present at the reception to President Wilton at the Mansion House. The degree of M.A. has been conferred bv Cambridge University upon Captain E. 0. Mousley, JI.F.A.' (Auckland). Captain Mousley graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1914. Ho then got his commission and had the misfortune to be taken prisoner with Townshend's force at Kut. Me returned to England last month as the envoy of the Turkish Government Professor A. W. Bickerton (Christchurch), in a lecture on the "Relation of Botanv to Science," at the Royal Botanic Society, said the human body was the greatest wonder of life. It had no heaters or refrigerators. Though combustion was continually going on, human beings were all one temperature. Smoking soothed the nerves biut lowered the intelligence, consequents he advised students to leave off smoking six months before their examination. Those who did so had passed— not the others. Still, in the present social conditions, which were conducive to nerve-strain, he did not advise giving up smoking altogether.