PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 205, 31 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Paris cablegram reports tho death of Senator Ber-enger, author of tUo First Offenders, Act-. The death is announced, by c-.tble message from Sydney, of the Right Rerv. C. G. Barlow, Bishop of Goulburn, aged oii years. Lieutenant-Colonel K. H'oaton Rhodes, wlio Ls to make investigations in the New Zealand base in Egypt on behalf of the Government, will leave* Welluigton on Thursday. He will he accompanied by his private secretary, Mr \\~. Crow. Sir George Reid, whose term as High Commissioner for Australia -expires in January next, has taken a. seven years' lease of a hou.>e in London, and it is understood that ho dees not intend to return to Australia. Mr A. T. Stone, oi the local office of tho Stock Department, who has been transferred to .Nelson, was this morning presented with a ease, of silver-mounted, pipes by the local officers. Mr F. H. Brit.tain, in making the presentation, referred in complimentary terms to Mr Stone's courtesy and obliging disposition. The condition of Bishop Cleary,. Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland,, who is dangerously ill in Sydney, eon.--iimic<; far from satisfactory. Archbishop lied wood announced in Wellington on Sunday that he had received word from' Sydney that as tho result of a consultation on Saturday the doctors had decided that a second! operation was necessary,'and this was. to take place yesterthiy.