PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Ghristchurch (Pr Grimes) is at # preeent'an inmate of a private hospital.

The boy who topped the list of Junior National Scholarship winners for Marlbo rough at the recent examinations, R. G; Spenee, is a pupil of the Robin Hood Bay School.

Commander E. R. G. R. Evans, C.8., who was a member of Captain Scott's Polar expedition, has been appointed commander of the: (torpedo boat destroyer. Viking.

A London correspondent writes that Captain C. H, R. Pentreafch,. formerly of Blenheim, M.8., New. Zealand Medical Corps, is gazetted captain (temporary). but he is not attached to a medical Unit. '

Mr Olunies-Rovss, "the owner of Cocos Island, where the German cruiser Emden was recently destroyedl, has arrived in Wellington from a tour of the North Island. He is accompanied by his wife.

Amongst those who were ordained!' to the diaconate by the Archbishop of Sydney last month was Mr Donald! Haultain, of Taradale (says the Hawke's Bay/Herald). Mr Haultain is the third ex-member of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co's staff to take holy orders in the Anglican Church, the other two being the Rev. J. D. Russell, of OamarUj and the Rev. O. Saundors, of Nelson.

Mr Justice Chapman, after thirteen: months' absence from the Dominion on a visit to the Old "World, returned to Wellington on /Tuesday. During; his absence his Honor visited Europe as well as Great Britain, also Sicily and Egynt. Referring to the war, Mr Justice Chapman states that the determination of the British people to see the thing right through :to the end in order to thoroughly break down Prussian arrogance is emphatic. Reci-uiting is going on most satisfactorily in England. So far the German people have been thoroughly misled as to the progress of event's by official and journalistic misrepresentation. The church bells of Berlin are kept ringing to celebrate mythical victories, but the naked truth must soon be known, and the day of reckoning will surely come. . N