PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 16663, 20 February 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL

Major H. A. Cooper has retimied from the North and resumed duty as general staff officer in Dunedin. To-day the major was at Port Chalmers on departmental business. Major Hickey has gone on a duty visit to Invercargili. Mr E. D. Mosley, who has been appointed relieving Magistrate, is a partner of _ the firm of Smithson and Mosley, solicitors, of Christchurch. Ho is one of the younger members of the legal profession, and is held in high estimation by his confreres of the law. He is a wellknown bowler and ex-president of the Christchurch Bowling Club. He entered the Justice Department as a cadet in 1893, and went to ■ the Dunedin Magistrate's Court, serving for three yeas under the late Mr E. H. Carow. He was transferred to Christoln-uch, where he was admitted as a solicitor in 1899, having previously qualified in Dunedin. The vacant position of -Supervising Engineer of the Westland section of railways has been filled by the promotion of Mr Watson, of Christchurch, who was formerly on the Greymouth staff. Mr Watson has already taken up his new duties. At the half-yearly meeting of the Dunedin Operative Bootmakers'" Union last evening, Mr S. C. Brown, the secretary, was presented with a framed photograph of the delegates who attended the "Boot Trade Congress, Jiekl in Dunedin in December. Mr F. Jones, who made the presentation, referred to the capable manner in which Brown had carried out his duties, and said the delegates■ desired to acknowledge his display of tact and ability. Mr Brown, in responding, stated that he had worked for the unification of the boot trade, and he was pleased to know that anything ho had done had helped in that direction. The Very Rev. Father Paul Aubry, S.M., has been appointed successor to the late Dean Carew, in the pastorate of Greymouth. For the last nine years Father Aubry has had charge of parish of Waimate, South ,■ Canterburv*. He was f ormorly on the staff of St. "Patrick's College, Wellington. Father W. J. Peoples, of Greymouth, fills the vacancy at Waimate. . On the motion of Dr Church yesterday, the University Council tendered their heartiest congratulations to Dr Bamett on Im receiving the honor of C.M.G. from His Majesty the King for war services. Squadron" Commander K. !S. Savory, R.F.C.. who was the pilot of the great Handley Page biplane which flew in eight stages from England to Constantinople and bombed the Goeben, is a brother of Mrs C. J, S. Padden, who was resident in Hastings four years ago (says the 'Hawke's Bay Tribune'). Her husband. Captain Padden. left New Zealand with the main body, in command of the Otago Mounted.?. He was wounded in action on Gallipoli, necessitating the amputation of one leg. Up to the time her husband was incapacitated for further service, Mrs Padden was engaged nursing in an English hospital.

-H. D. Estabrook, a prominent lawyer and Republican politician, who was at cine st . a §f.- I" 1916. an aspirant for the office ot i resident of the United States, dropped dead in an American motion picture theatre in December.

Lawrence P,. Cavell, a cousin of Edith Cavell, who was murdered bv the Germans in Belgium, ig ii\ the United States hiwnul Corps. Ho tried several times to enlist m the Canadian forces, but was rejected, and at last succeeded in Chicago where his partner lives. n ' Norman Francis Kgglcstone, called in the bn lot, will not be 20 until June nest, tie volunteered some time ago. ■ but was rejected as being under age. Mr Eclesone lost two sons (Richard Even and Valentme George) at Oallipoli. Another son (Arthur Ronald) is fighting in F rance . Jiv .harvey, iorbury crescent, St. Glair has received word that bis son.'Private j! J/'- H *"; e J' lcffc with the Machine trim Section, 28t1i Reinforcements, and jyns severely wounded in thigh and rigirt hand, has been removed to convalescent depot Hornchurch. His brother, Esmond, who left as trumpeter with the 6th Rein lOrcements. is still on active service Chaplain W. "Walker, who made many inends m Dunedm when supplying for a year at the Methodist Central Mission, is shortly to revisit our City, and has consented to speak at the Octagon Hall on his war experiences on Sunday afternoon next Chaplain Walker left with the 16th Kemiorcements, and has been in the thick ot the fighting in Flanders during 1917 He may be trusted to give a thrilling lecture.