PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 9 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The election of Mr. E. Casey to succeed Mr R. M. Isaacs as fiist division representative on the Railways Superannuation Fund: Board is gazetted.— Press Association.

Word has been received that- Bugler Stone, soni of Mr Stone, of the Reservoir, is progressing favourably.

Mr. Walter Leslie, for irany years a member of the "Hansard" staff, and well known as an artist and pressman, died at Wellington last night, at the age of 60 years. —Press Association.

Mrs Heal, matron of the Whakarewa Orphanage, Motueka, died on Wednesday. General sympathy will be extended to her husband, Mr E. R. Heal, who is manager of "the institution. The f unei£il •will take place at Motueka to-morrow, the Bishop of Nelson officiating at the burial service.

The friends of Miss Fanny M. Shirtliff will be interested to learn that she is engaged in one of the British base hospitals in France. Miss Shirtliff, who is a daughter of Mrs Shirtliff, of Waimea. road, was in England when the war broke out, and hetr services were immediately accepted by the War Office. She is in charge of the Acute Surgical WaTd at one of the British Expeditionary Hospitals, and it receives its wounded darect from the battlefields. When efficiently recovered <in<l opportunities occur the patients are shipped .on to England to make room for fresh convoys from the front. There is a staff of lb doctors and 50 sisters in the same hospital, while within a. few mteas another encampment of huts and tents with French and' Indian wounded and hundred more sisters.

The death occulted on- Wednesday of Mr. George lines, of Ngatimoti, at the age of 70 years. Mr Lines, whose wife predeceased him, leaves a family or seven daughters and one son, all ot whom are married. He was born at Wakefield in 1845, being the son of the late Mr Thomas Lines, who caire to Nelson in the early forties in, the ship Thomas Harrison, which was under charter to the New Zealand Company. Mr George Lines settled in the Ngatimoti district in 1857._ Deceased was a highly respected settler.

Owing to the 'retirement of the Ven. Archdeacon Baker at the end of the year, the Board of Nomination, for the Diocese of Nelson met on Thursday, July Ist, to consider the vacancy in the parochial district' of Brightwater. After deliberation the Board decided to nominate the Rev. John Pratt Ke'mpthorne, vicar of the Cathedral, who has acc&pted, the nomination. Brightwater has been regarded for many years as one of the wbst "important districts in -the--Diocese.' There are historical associations with, the district owing to its having- been tfre ; place of residence of the first Bishop. ; It has had only two vicars for the last 48 years, Bishop Mules from 1867 to 1892, and Archdeacon Baker from 1893 up to the pi'esent year. The Rey-.' J. P. Kemp-; thorne will be greatly missed from the Cathedral. It is "understood that the; Bishop lias intimated j.hat lie intends to collate M'r Kempthorne as Archdeacon of Waimea when Archdeacon Baker retires,- and that in .this way the traditions ■of Brightwater-will be 'preserved in the Diocese. The Board wil meet shortly to consider the vacancy at -the Cathedral.