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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 8

The-Rev. A. C. T. Purchas, late.assistant curate at Geraldine, and- son <bf the Rev. Canon Purchas, of Glenmark, has been appointed temporary chaplain. at Christ's College in place of the Rev. \ G. S. Bryan-Brown, who has gone into camp as chaplain to the Forces. Mr R. A. Wright, M.P. for Wellington Suburbs, who was a member of the Parliamentary party which toured North Auckland, and "Prof essor T. A. Hunter, who attended the meeting of the University Senate in Auckland, .returned to Wellington yesterday. . A taxicab in charge of Mr. D. Caldei, and in which a party of ladies were seated, caught fire in the Hastings district on Saturday night and was completely destroyed. . The carburetter became ignited "by the'back-firing of the machine when the car was nearing Clifton. Evidence was given in the Magistrate's Court at Napier on Monday that Charles A. Atkins, aged 48,-. who ■ was charged with obtaining money by means of valueless cheques, had . spent £100G in Hawkes Bay during nine months. Colonel Alfred H. Sturdee, Australian A.M.C., who was invested with this CM.G by the King recently, is th« only brother of Vice-Admiral Sir Dove- 1 ' ton Sturdee. The turning-%> of all lights in picture palaces during the intervals between the films will be insisted upon by the London County Council Theatres Committee. , , Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. advertise particulars, of a sale of 300 lots of. furniture, carpets, household 'linen, etc.. at No. 37, Palmer-street, to-morrow, at 1.30. ; Friday morning, at 10.30. at No. 5, Me!-Tose-crescent, they.will s"ell:ho"usehold furniture, etc. ' '