PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 215, 5 June 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Very Reverend Robert Snowden Hay has been elected Bishop of Tasmania.—Press Assn. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie is going to Pahiatua to-day. .Mr. Guthrie is s oi >ig into the district at the request of Mr. Harold Smith, M.P., to meet deputations from local bodies in connection with land for soldiers in that district. The next day he will go on to Woodrille to meet a deputation, from the Woodville Returned Soldiers' Association. He will return to Wellington on' Saturday.

J\" Press Association messago from Auckland states'that the Rev. Father James Patterson died on Tuesday night at Takapuna, where ho had lived a retired life for some time, owing to his advanced age. The Rev. Andrew.Cameron, Chancellor of Otago- University, has been by the Edinburgh University that the Doctor of Laws decree will be conferred on him in July—Press Assn. A Press Association telegram from Noleon announces the death of Mr. John Sharp, at the ago of 90 years. Mr. .Shai'D held many important pos(6 in the old Provincial Council, was Resident Magistrate, ex-Mayor, and represented Nelson in Parliament in the 'seventies. He was sheriff at the time of the Maungatapu murders. The death is reported of Mr. T. W. Adams, one of the foremost educationists in Canterbury, and one of the leading laymen in the Methodist Church of New Zealand, aged 77. He came to Hew Zealand in 1862, and settled.at Greendale. 1n'1892 he was elected a member of the Canterbury Education Board, being chairman in 1897 and 1904, and was also elected a member of the Boajd of Governors of Canterbury College in J. 597. Ho made a life work of collecting trees and shrubs from every temperate clime, and had a collection of over 700 different species.

Lieutenant A. E. Esquilant, M.C., of the New Zealand Artillery, is expected back to these shores by the Prinzesin, duo to arrive in Wellington on July 1. Lieutenant Esquilant left in November, 1915, as a sorgeant, receiving his commission iu Franco during the Battle of the Sonime, and in the course of which engagement he was wounded. The distinction conferred npjn him was gained by tho splendid example he set to hid men in conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at the lime of the heavy shelling of a. battery company. He got all his men 6afely away to a flank, and then, seeing that some officers had been wounded at a neighbouring battery, he went to the spot, and, with the help of'a n.c.0., carried two wounded officers to a place of safety. His younger brother, Bombardier Leslie Esquilant, was killed in action in Prance on September 28, 1917. His sister is the well-known contralto vocalist, Mm. D. Stuart-Dallas.