PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. W. B. Chennells, of Masterton, who returned to New Zealand by the Nigara on Sunday, arrived in Wellington yesterday. Mr. Edwin T. Wray, agency manager for the Colonial Mutual Life Office in < «New Zealand, who, with his wife, has been on a nine months' holiday tour in the Old Country, returned to Wellington by the Manuka. Mr. Charles Zachatiah, who has been connected with the Publics Trust Office for many years, and is at present Wellington district manager and ActingOfficial Assignee here, has been appointed Deputy-Public Trustee and Official Assignee for Otago in succession to Mr. Kendall, who is being transferred to the charge of the Public Trust Office in Christeburch, the position there having become vacant through the death of Mr. Smythe. Mr. Zachariah will leave for Dunedin next week. News has been received in Wellington of the accidental death of Liettt.-Surgeon Ernest John Herbert Webb, of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The deceased, who was 33 years of age, \vas a son of Mr. Herbert Webb, solicitor, of Dunedin, and a. brother of Mr. R' Herbert "Webb", solicitor, of Wellington of Dr. Webb, of Martinborough, and ol Mr. Webb, accountant^ of Invercargill He qualified in Dunedin this year .in. was appointed medical officer of the titsi Trentham Camp, in which position he earned the good will and respect oi' both officers 'and men. Mr. Fred Jabefc Bennett, who arrived in Auckland by the Queen of the Mersey and had lived in that city evet sitieo. is dead. When he arrived in 1863 tin Maori war was in progress, and he sa\. active service as a member of the NewZealand militia. The, late Mr. Bennett took a great interest in church matters, and for some years was an elder, of St. Andrew's Church and superintendent of the Sunday -school. He was also an elder of St. Stephen's Church, Ponsonby. He was > one of the founders of the Blind Institute, in ParneU. He left a family of six bom and five daughters. To-day is the 49th anniversary of the oidination of the Yen. Archdeacon Thos. Fancourt. Born at Malvern, Worcestershire, England, on the very day that the first party of settlers' under the auspices of the New Zealand Company landed at Petone (22nd January, 1840), he was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and studied for the ministry at the famous missionary college of St. Augustine, and then went to India, -which country he was obliged to leave owing to his health breaking down. In 1865 he came to New Zealand in the Star of Tasmania at the request of Bishop Abraham, of Wellington, and from November in that year until the present time he has been continuously engaged in this diocese. His ordination as a deacon took place this day 49 years ago in St. Paul's Pro-Cathe-dral, which then stood in the present Parliament House grounds. The ceremony was the last one of the kind in that church, and it is also worthy of mention that Mr. Fancouii was the first clerio to be ordained a priest in the present Pro-Cathedral in Mulgraye-street in 1867. Bishop Abraham officiated on both occasions. Up to 1870 the Rev. Mr. Fancourt had charge of Porirua, Johnsonville, and Karori. In 1870 he took charge of St. James's Palish, Lower Hutt, and remained there for fourteen years, when he was appointed Diocesan Secretary, a position which ho still retains. In 1888 he was appointed Archdeacon of Wellington. . In addition to being Diocesan Secretary he is examining chaplain to Bishop Sprott, and is also the Bishop'a commissary, offices which he had also filled under Bishop Wallis and the late Bishop Hadfield. Archdeacon Fancourt. although 74 years of age, is still hale and hearty. His family conists of the Rev.' Thos. Fancourt, vicar of St. Thomas's, Wellington South, Mrs. Fletcher Harrison, of Wanganui (at present in England), Mrs. Nevins, of Tenui, and Miss Fancourt, of Wellington.