PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17290, 4 October 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr H. Ensor, of Rakahuri, arrived iu Christchurch yesterday. Sir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C.. arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr Hugo Friedlander, of Ashburton, arrived in Christchurch last night. At a meeting of the Dunedin .Presbytery, it was decided to nominate the Hon J. G. W. Aitken as moderator of the Assembly.

Mr F. Holly, manager of the grain department of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, has resigned his position. Prior to his departure last week from the Arthur's Pass School, the pupils presented Mr W. E. Cook with a travelling bag and rug. Mr Cook has been appointed an assistant master at Woolston School.

Mr J. J. Virgo, National British Field Secretary of the Y.M.C.A., arrived in Christchurch from Wellington yesterday, and proceeded to Dunedin by the first express. He will return next week and will make a stay of a few days in this city. Professor T. H. Easterfield, of Victoria College, Wellington, will arrive in Christchurch this morning. He will give a lecture before the Canterbury Philosophical Institute this evening on "The Importance of Scientific Research in Industry and Commerce." Cable advice was received yesterday that Lieutenant A. J. Breach, of Rangiora, who left with the Sixteenth Reinforcements, is returning to Now Zealand ill. He was suffering from appendicitis at Albany, but is believed to have transhipped at another port for New Zealand. Mr Allen How Denhani, who died at " Tariki," Mount Eden Road, Auckland, on Friday, in. his eighty-third year, arrived at Lyttelton in 1870 in the Shaw-Savill liner Merope, subsequently settling in the Taranaki district. He resided in New Plymouth for eighteen years. Twenty years ago he retired from active business, and went to Auckland.

Mr Q. W. D. Mulgau, solicitor, son of Mr E. Iv. Mulgan, Senior Inspector of Schools in Auckland, has obtained permission from the Government to proceed to England on busiiicss connected with the Overend Aluminium Soldering Process Company, Ltd. Mr Mulgan, who enlisted in Auckland, will report himself for service in England. He leaves by, the Niagara on Tuesday.

Chaplain Clarkson, of Marsden Court, Auckland, who left with the Main Bodv of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is visiting Wangauui. Chaplain Clarkson saw active service at the Suez Caual and in Gallipoli. Ho was invalided homo a year ago, and has for about nine months been undergoing special treatment at King George V. Hospital, Rotorua. Though greatly improved in health, and desiring to return to the front, he has latterly been as medically unfit for further service abroad. Before the war he was .organising secretary for. the Marsden Centenary Fund, and was for many years in the Wellingdiocese.

Chaplain Patrick Dore, of the Mam Body of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, who returned by the Willochra and reached Auc«laud last week, was wounded in the advance at Anzac last August, having his right leg fractured. That he reached the hospital alive is due to the devotion of an Auckland boy, Trooper Edmund John Foley, son of Mr T. Foley, of Edendale Road, Mount Eden. When Father Dore was wounded Trooper Foley refused to leave him at the first dressing station, as the surgeon at the time had stated that the chaplain's life could only be saved by immediate attention on the hospital ship. Ho therefore took the chaplain to' tho ship. Returned soldiers speak most kindly of Father Dore, who in his duties knew no creed distinctions, was ever ready to assist, risked his • life frecently to bring in wounded men, and all the time was bright and good-humoured. One soldier upon his return to New Zealand wounded related how at Gallipoli he had seen Chaplain Dore and Chaplain Luxford (Methodist) one at each end of a stretcher carrying in wounded men. apparently unconscious of danger to themselves.