PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. E. Anker, of Wellington, has been appointed conductor of the Maeterton Congregational Church choir, Mr H. R. Smith, Town Clerk of Christchurch, is on a visit to Wellington. His son is in the Trentham Camp. Mr W. G Callender, assistant town clerk of Hastings^ has been granted leave of absence in order that ho may go to the front. ( Major Fleming Ross, who has been on sick leave for some time, returned from Auckland last week, and has resumed command -of the sth (Wellington) Regi* ment. Among those who have offered themselves for the > front, announces a the Oamaru Mail, is the Rev J. D. Wilson, of Winton. He is willing to serve a* chaplain or private. Mr L. Bastings, 8.A., of Victoria, University College, has been appointed to the staff of the Wanganui Technical College as Science Master. Mr Bastings left for the north yesterday Mr. L. W. Fowler has resigned his seat on the Hawkes Bay Licensing Com' mittee as a. protest against the granting of licenses to hotelkeepere in casefe in which the police report is unsatisfactory. Mr. P. Hoskins, of this city, has received advice that his son,. T G. Hoskins, who joined the Australian Expeditionary Force with his brother, Mr. Gil. P .Hoskins, has been wounded in action at the Dardanelles. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary to the. New Zealand Employers' Federation, ie on a. visit to Auckland, where he will appeal' before the Arbitration Court on behalf of the employers m th© boilermakera and engineers' dispute. The institution of th© Rev. H G. Blackburne, M.A., late of Kilbirnie, as vicar of the Palmerston Parochial District, took place at All Saints' Church on Friday. The ceremony was per» formed by his Lordship Bishop Sprott. Mr. W. Steven, an old resident of this city, has been advised that his son, Pte. John Steven, of the 2nd Reinforcements, has been missing since Bth May. Pte. Steven, who was well-known in this district, qualified as a telegraphist and was subsequently stationed in Masterton, where he enlisted. Mr. ( Duncan Bauchop and Mr. L. J. Darwin have resigned from the staff of the Christchurch Technical College. The former is going to England to offer his services to the naval authorities and the latter has joined the New Zealand Forces at Trentham. , Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor, who was reported as having been dangerously wounded in the Dardanelles, is now progressing favourably. Advice to this effect has been received by Mrs. Chaytor, and will be Welcomed by numerous friends of the colonel and his wife. Mr Jtf. J. Mack, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, has been granted six months' leave of absence, and will leave shortly for Sydney to undergo a course of treatment for an internal trouble. During his absence the duties of the office wiil be carried out by Mr. R, Ryan, a trustee of the society. Lieut. Ronald Gray, who was reported as having been wounded in the knee in France recently, is now progressing favourably according to private- advice received. He is the youngest son of the late Mr. W. Gray, Secretary of the General' Post Office, and is an old Wellington College boy. In August- last he joined King Edward's Horse, and recently received a commission' in th« Royal Artillery The death is announced by the Oamaru Mail of Mr Henry Richmond, 81 years of age. and librarian of the Oamaru Athenaeum for 36 year*. The late Mr Richmond came out' from the Old Country to Australia, at the time of the gold fever in 1854. Before leaving Europe he went through many of the thrilling scenes of the Crimea campaign in the supply department, and his stories of those older battles, always well told, were of great interest in the light of those now being fought so close by at the Dardanelles. Mr. Richmond arrived in Wellington on the 14th November, 1857. by the ship John M Vicar. After a yeat in Canterbury he travelled overland to Oarnaru for the Lmdus "rush," which took place in 1859. On the outbreak of Gabriel's Gully ho was attracted further south i j* w i a ? SGVCn on- 1 the. Otago goldfields, where Richmond Hill bears his name. He afterwards returned \o Oamaru. and acted ac an accountant !n various drapery houses till he was ap* PO1 1877 a * bmiftn of t!le Athenaeum ,Mr. Hugh Blackwell iVGxAn died at his residence at Island Bajf on Saturday. Some years ago he received a severe strain, causitrg a rupture of a blood vessel, and a recurrence of the trouble a tew days ago was the immediate cause of his death. Mr. M'Guire, who was a, building contractor, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and after visiting America came out to New Zealand in the ship Avalanche, about forty years ago. At various times he co-operated with tho late Mr. James Trevor, and together they brought to successful completion quite a number of fine buildings throughout the Dominion. The deceased, a man of sterling qualities, at various times held positions on road boards and school committees in the South Island, aiul was also an affiliated member of the Freemasons Lodge Tutanekai. His wife, who also came out to New Zealand iti tho ship Avalanche with her parents, and is tho eldest daughter of tho late Mr. Thos. Antrobus, survives him, together with her four sons and three daughters. The former are Messrs. Hugh, Harry, \Villiam ? and Alec, and the latter Mrs. A. Goodwin, South Wellington, Mrs. W. Kciinington, Marlborough, and Miss Ckvta M'Guire, Wellington. The funeral will take &laoe to-morrow.