PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 17 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieut. Colonel D'Arcy Chaytor is gazetted to a temporary commission m the Royal Marines.

A London Press cable states that the Rev. Alexander McEWen was elected Moderator of the United Free Church.

Amongst the wounded at the front is Lieutenant J. C. Chaytor, of th ; e 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, a cousin of Major D'Arcy Chaytor. Lieutenant Chaytor has received the cross of a chevalier of the Legion ot Honour.

Mr R. Robertson (Takaka, Nelson)( marine engineer, has been for the last three vears on the Union Castle liner Guildford Castle, travelling between London and Capetown. This vessel is now a hospital ship, and leaves at once for the French coast.

lieutenant B. C. Freyberg (Wellington), who joined the Naval Division and went with them to Antwerp, where he was in charge of a machine gun, has now been transferred to a heavy gun battery in the same division.

Colonel D'Arcy Chaytor acted as base commandant at" Dunkirk during the operations of the Naval. Division in Belgium, and has now returned to England. He is now in chai'ge of the Army Service Corps detachment. of the division on Salisbury Plain.

The Wellington Harbour Board last night appointed Captain J. E. Dawson to succeed Captain Johnson as harbourmaster on the latter's retirement on March 31st next, after 25 years' service. In the meantime Captain Dawson, acts as deputy harbourmaster. Captain J; H. Hay ward, of the pilot staff, has been appointed deputy, as from April Ist next. —Press Association.

A memorial service, to the late Major John Southern Maidlow, R.F.A., who was killed in action at Mons oii 23rd. August, was held the other day at St. Peter's Church, Vcre : street, London. The deceased officer was a seat-holder in this church. The Rev. Canon Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury (former Rector of St. Peter's), assisted by the Rev. ■R.'j'W. Biirnaby, officiated, at the service, which was largely attended. There were present Mrs Maidlow (the widow), Colonel Lugard (father of Mrs Maidlow), Sir Andrew and Lady Fraser {sister of Mrs Maidlow), and their two sons,' Captain C. G. Tosswill and Mrs Tosswill (sister of Major Maidlow). Three hymns were sung—"Peace, Perfect Peace," "Blest are' the Pure in Heart," and "Now the Labourer's Task is O'er," and Psalm 39. arid the Dean of Salisbury read the lesson from the Order for the Burial, uf the Dead': "O Rest in tho Lord" was played on the organ as the opening voluntary, and the service concluded with tlie Dead March from "Saul." Major Maidlow was present at the" recent Territorial camp held at Tapawera.