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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 422, 13 June 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL

'I he engagement is announced of Sister Maclean, ol Palmerston North, and Mr E. P. Lifliton, of Wanganui. Sir Francis Bell will attend the Hague Conference as the representative of New Zealand, states a telegram from Wellington. ' Tho death has occurred in England at the age of 80 years of Viscount C’ohhttm, who was a well-known cricketer up to the year 1866. The leader of the United Party (Mr T. M. Wilford. ALP .) announces that the. Hon. Ik Bnddo has consented to stand as the party’s candidate for the Kaiapoi seat. A message from Sydney states that the Navy Board has announced that RearAdmiral Dutnaresqu is seriously ill at .Manila, and that there is small hope of his recovery. The Minister of Education (Mr Parr) left Wellington for Auckland yesterday. He "ill be the principal speaker at tho capping ceremony at Auckland University College on Wednesday. The deatli is reported of one of Auckland s pioneers, Air Thomas iStniih, at the age of 87. Mr Smith arrived in New Zealand in 1872 in the ship Celestial Queen, the journey occupying over 100 days. We regret to hear that Mr P. C. Freelh, formerly editor of the Manawatu Daily Times, is seriously ill in a private hospital in .Sydney, We hope ro hear of an early improvement in Air Freelh’s condition. Lieutenant-Colonel 11. J. McLean, C.8.E., has relinquished the appoimnent of Assistant Director of Aiedical Services, Wellington Military District, and has been appointed Assistant Director of Aiedical Services, Central Command. Air H. Macintosh, who was rather severely injured as the result of the accident on iho Shannon road on Saturday night, was i opened by the hospital authorities this afternoon to he making satisfactory progress towards recovery. While H.AI.S. Chatham was at Suva on her recent cruise to the Pacific Islands, Surgeon-Commander T. Paterson, tho vessel’s surgeon, was married to Aliss Scott, niece of the Mayor of Suva. Tho wedding was_ celebrated with the customary naval festivities.

Sir Arthur Worley, C.R.E., a well-known London financier, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara, accompanied by Miss Worley. Bolero leaving the Dominion in about a lortnighl’s time, Sir Arthur will visit Rotorua and Wellington. The visit is mainly I lor business reasons.

1 The authorities of the University of I .Melbourne announce that the Rev. Walter . 1 vens, of .Malvern, has gained the degree of | doctor of letters by a thesis oft the subject ■of “Dialects of the Pacific Islands.” Air j Ivens, who is a graduate of the University lof New Zealand, has spent a number of ; years as a missionary in the Pacific Islands, . lie bus prepared a number of grammars and | vocabularies on iho dialects of the Pacific i Islands.

Air J. R. Chapman, who was for many years prominent in musical circles in Christchurch, died on Friday. Air Chapman was burn in Tasmania some 70 years ago, and came to New Zealand in 1879. For several years he was bandmaster of the St. Albans Drum and Fife Band, which he organised. He was choirmaster for some years of St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Christchurch Orchestral Society and Alusical Union. The New Zealand friends of Archdeacon C C. Harper, vector of Newington (formerly archdeacon of Palmers!on North and vicar of St. Peter’s, W ellington), will be interested to know that he has accepted I lie living of Ford, Northumberland, recently vacated on account of continued illhealth by Bishop At. R. Neligan, formerly of Auckland (writes a London correspondent). Archdeacon Harper accepted the rectory of Newington in 1916, and he has had a very strenuous time in this huge .South London parish. This interval has, of course, been unusually strenuous owing _to war conditions and the difficulty of obtaining assistant clergy. Archdeacon Harper has been without a curate since last summer. With Airs Harper, he leaves London in the middle of June and hopes to take up duly at Ford in July.