PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 5 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. IV. Weeks leaves for Wellington 'by the Patee.ua on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Board of Theological Studies which is to be held there on Thursday. Mr T. S'. J£<l wa rd s has been advised that his ison, Lieutenant Ernest G. Edwards, was wounded ou July 28th, and is also suffering from sliell shock. Lieut. Edwards was a student at- Nelson College. The Edwandis family has a fine war record. Mr Edwards has had at the front one .«on (wounded), two sons-in-law (•both woimd'ed and now discharged as medically unfit), and seven nephews (one of whom has been killed).

Tho Bishop of Neleon left to-day for Scddon and Blenheim. ILe will join Archdeacon Kempthorne and Mr 'C. W. Brown at Picton an Tuesday!, and they will proceed together to Wellington to attend the meeting of the Standing Committee of the General S'ynod on Wednesday. Tho 'Bishop, who will aWo attend the meeting of the Board of Theological Studies, will return to Neken in about a week's time.

Mrs J. Garvin, of Bridge street, has ■been advised by the fßase Records Office that confirmation has been received that Iter son, Private James Garvin, was killed in action on July 14th. On a previous occasion Private Garvin -was wrongly; reported killed, 'and his clothes were actually sent home. Therefore there was some hesitation on the part of the mother in accepting the second: intimation of his death without confirmation, which is now to ha ad.