PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17284, 27 September 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Chief Detective Bishdp. now stationed in Dunedin, is visiting Cb.rii.tchurch.

Tho Hon D. Bnddo, M.P., left Christchurch last evening on a visit to Wellington and Hawke's Bay. Letters received in Auckland from Bishop Cleary, who is visiting Great Britain, states that ho recently travelled through tho North of Ireland, and that his health has much improved.

At last ovening's meeting of the Heathcote County Council a- resolution of appreciation of Mr E. J. Barnes's services during the past five years as ctfanty engineer was unanimously agreed to. Mr H. Wolfe, of the Christchurch Tourist Bureau, is on annual leave, and is visiting the Buller and Otira Gorge district in order to see what tourist facilities are necessary for the greater development of tho district as a holiday resort. ,

Mr S. L. P. Free has received a cable from Captain Free, of the No. 2 Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, stating that he was slightly wounded in the hand and chest in the recent fighting in France and has landed in England. He cables that he was jn a "delightful scrap." Ilr H. G. CoombD, at will rotiro on euper_nn—tion early next ye..r. He joint I Post OJice, AuckLnd, as a crxLt, en March 3, 1875, end will have that department for over forty-t.T years. Lefore taki:i~ up his pr~scnt position, four jeers \..£o, Mr Coonbv. had b~or> for some yeara chief cli's, both at Llenhcim end Nelson.

Tho I.tert report '.s to Captr'i.T. H Y. S-ddono accident it the fret rtatej that he is in No. 1 Str.tior ry Hospital, which is.near the New Zc:.lend headquarters end linen.. About six weeks aro Dv Teichelmr.nn, cf t v o West Coast," wcg on the sta2 of that hospital, and Mr Seddon may hz under his car?. Lieutenant Stuart Seddon had virited his brother, who continu;d to make good progress. The master of the Japanese steamer Akita Maru, which is at Wellington, Captain Umekichi Tanaka, has in his possession a handsome pieco of silver plate which was presented to him when, as second officer of the steamer Wasaka Maru, he rescued a number of Chinese from a junk, at considerable personal risk. The presentation waj made by tho pasceiigers.of the. Wasaka Maru as a token of thoir admiration. Lieutenant Philip Ellis, who is among the New Zealanders to receive the Military Cross, was formerly a member of the" clerical staff of the Wellington Harbour Board. He went away as a driver in tho Main Expeditionary Force, and was a sergeant-major ; in the "old Submarine Mining Corps. When tho corps was disbanded ho joined tho artillery section of the new company as a sorgeant-niajor under Captain A. Hume. Mr Cecil John Ryan, who died at tho Nelson Hospital on Tuesday last, was one of the best known running men in Tasmania. He came from Hobart in February as an apple packer for Messrs Buxton and Co., and during the off season worked in the Motueka district. While bush-felling at Pokororo, ho becamo seriously ill, and was sent to the hospital at Motueka, where he was found to bo suffering from meningitis. On Monday he was taken to the Nelson Hospital, and died -next day. He was a single man, and his parents reside at Hobart. At a meeting of the Manawatu Philosophical Society last week, the president, Mr J. W. Poynton, referred to the death of Dr A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North, and Mr Poynton suggested that a deputation from the society should meet the Mayor with the object of calling a public meeting to consider the erection of a memorial. He said that he thought the memorial should take the form of a children's ward This would be more fitting than tho ordinary form of memorial, and would be a reminder that every infant life should be conserved to assist in making good the waste of life in the war.