PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Professor Worley;of the Auckland University y is spending, his vacation in iNelsbtt.. laeut. N. A." Vercoe, who has been invalided' home, returned to Nelson on Saturday morning. .Gunner Herbert Sigley, of Totaranui, has 'teen slightly wounded in Trance. An Auckland Press message announces tfie death of the Rev. George Spence,- retired Methodist minister. Private ■XT. Baftlett, son of Mr Robert Bartleft, of Motupipi, who was with the Main Body ab Gallipoli> and was twice wounded, is now ip England. He has ben promoted to the rank of secondlieutenant.. Dr. HL W. Cleary, Roman Catholic {Bishop of Auckland, has been appointed hy th£ Pope an assistant bishop of the Pontifical' tbronel He is. the only Ausprelate now holding this distinction. A -well-known and highly-respected resident of -the district passed away at •Central "Eakaka on Friday last in the person of -Mrs W. C. Baigent. The deceased; who was a daughter of the late Mr Charles Besfi, ,of Appleby, /underwent a serious- operation about a couple of months ago in- ;Nelson, and only returned home shortly ibefore her •'death. She leaves a husbaricf, three sons (Messrs Edward, Frederick and Ashley Baigent) and two daughters (Mrs Painter and Miss Baigent), for.whom much sympathy is felt. <