PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 15 February 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

-. Mr .Frank Barltrop, whol has, joined tho reinforcements for tho New Zealand .Expeditionary Force, was presented on\9at'urday. .evening Avith a_ handsome i gold medal by the employees of Mr L. Korr. The pi-esentation was mado by Mr Davis, who wished tho recipient overy success while serving, his country. The modal bore, tho following inscription: —"Presented to Frank Barltrop by Louis Korr's employees on his leaving for the front." Ai Press cablo from Sydney istates that [the term of office of -Sir T. A. Uoghlan, as Agcnt-G cn«nt 1 for New South Wales, lias been extended 'for six months.,;' • A Press cable froni Sidney., repdrjts tho death, in England, of Hoy.; JDr. Fordyce, a prominent Congregationalist. , Recent callers at the local the Tourist Bureau includo the following overseas-, visitors:—James Field, North Perth (W.A.); Donald Glasspble, London; Winifred Darbield, London; and Betty Phanp, Scotland . . '<.. i.'. Mr W. E. Ham, of Motueka, father of tho late Privato Ham,- of tho New < Expeditionary Forte, 'fatally wounded in action nenV tho Suez is at" present in Nelson. In addition ; to his son, Mr Ham has lost two cousinß -and a nephew in the war. Two of >his nieces are serving as nurses at the front. By an intimation in this issue,\Mr*} and Mrs Ham acknowledge tho nume*pus messages of condolence which they havo received. Rev. Father J. Tymonds, who succeeds tho Rev. Father Ainsworth; at*. Nelson, arrived from Temuka on-Satur-day morning, (and preaciheld ihis fftrstj sermons at St. Mary's yesterday. Father Ainsworth, who in future will be engaged in mission work, leaves for Tonvulca to-morrow evening.