PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17560, 17 August 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

' Archdeacon Elisor arrived from the north by the ferry steamer yesterday. Mr G. Witty, M.P., arrived from Wellington yesterday. Sir James Carroll is visiting Christchurch. Ho will return to Wellington to-morrow evening.

Tho Mayor (Mr IT. Holland) loft for Wellington last night. Ho will return ito-morrow morning.

Lieutenant Douglas Gifford Moore, of Wanganui, who has just returned from the front, is visiting Christchurch.

A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Mr R. Scobio, member for Murray in tho Legislative Assembly.

Tho New Zealand "Methodist Timrs " states that amongst provisional engagements for next year is the transfer of the Rev A. Liversedg'e from the Christchurch East circuit, to Hawera. His Excellency-tho Governor-General has been informed by cable that His Majesty tho King has been graciously pleased to appoint Surgeon-General R. S. F. Henderson, R.A.M.C., DirectorGeneral cf Medical Services in New Zealand, a member of the third class Companion of tho Most Honourablo Order of the Bath.

Tho sudden death is announced of Mi Alexander Charles Boyd, who formerly held the. position of Deputy PostmasterGeneral for British Burmah, and ther.co went to Calcutta as an official in tho Indian Civil Service. Ten years.ago his health declined, and ho left a position as Postal Account Examiner in Calcutta to go to Auckland, where he had lived in retirement till his death- Ho came from a distinguished military familv iu the Old Country.

Mr F. A. Ruck, secretary of the Seer ml Canterbury Military Service Board, has been transferred to 'the Immigration Department, Wellington,.and left for the nonth on Wednesday evening. Mr T. Kirker, who 'has been appointed secretary in his place, began his new duties yesterday. He was a member of the Postal Department _for manv years, and was for some time postmaster at To Aro, Wellington, bu* retired from th 0 service. Lieutenant Victor James Gallic, R.F.A., who has been awarded the Military Cross .for bravery in the field, is a son ot Mr John G.allie, of Wellington. He served at Samoa with tho Adyanco Guard for nine months, and on his return to New Zealand left for England at his own expense, and was immediately given a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded in the battlo of Ypres, and came through tho Somme lighting without'a scratch. Lieutenant Gallic is an old Wellington College boy, and at the outbreak of war held a sergcantcy in D Battery. He is twenty-six years of age, and has two other brother's on active service.

Referring to the death of Mr G. H. Whitcombe, Mr Robert Lee. of B'eivoir, Lower Hutt, writes to the "Dominion " :—" I read with much regret your notice of the death of Mr G. H. Whiteombe, of Christehurch. It may interest his friends to learn that he and his older brother Charles came oub from London with me in the wooden barque Memento, -UK) tons in 1864. arriving at. Nelson on Easter Ev<? ( after a record voyage of ninety-one days from St Katlicrine's Decks to Nelson Harbour. There were only five passengers—all men. Two of these returned to the Old Lands, one being a Swiss; but the Whitcombes and I stuck to tho colony, and, I think, had no regrets foxdoing so. George was an intelligent boy of about twelve years of age, but his brother would bo at least ten years older. Both had lived in Franco several years, and -spoke excellent French. Chr-rlcs was well-read, and had a very versatile mind. He and I played chess, and in other ways whilcd away the time of many monotcnowi days m a passage in which we only twice caught distantglimpses of land, and ploughed an eudFess track of water.