PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONALIA

The Rev. Oswald Morgan Stent has been appointed honorary chaplain to the Waiinarino Mounted Rifles. Mr J. A. Wat~oa will leave Wellington .to-day for London by the Nevehana to eomplVte his medical studied. Tho Minister for Finnic Works, Hon. It. McKenzie, will open the new rest office at Wakefield, Nelson, on Monday next.

Lieutenant A. G. Smith, of the Ninth New Zealand Contingent, has been appointed to a similar position in the New Zealand Militia.

Tho death occurred at Rapanui fin tho Wan-'unui district; vesterday of Mr Leonard .1. Moore, formerly of Makmri. The deceased hud been ill for some time. Mr J. 11. Gruar having resigned his post as conductor of the .llutt and Petone Citizens' Brass Band, Lieutenant Herd has been appointed in his stead. The Rev. J. D. McKenzie, M.A., 8.D., late of Colac, Victoria, was yesterday inducted into the pastorate of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Wanganui (says a Press Association, telegram). Mr Justice 'Chapman, who has spent the first portion of the "long vacation" in Duuedin, returned to Wellington yesterday and proceeded by rail to Kotorua, where he will spend his remaining holidays.

A Press Association message states that the Anglican Primate (Biehop Neville) arrived at Napier last evening from Dunedin in connection with the consecration of Archdeacon Avorill as Bishop of VV'aiapu on Sunday.

Mr Beaumont Head, the well-known alto singer, died at Adelaide suddenly on Wednesday, the sth inst., aged 77 years. He sang at the Sydney Exhibition on Christmas Eve, 1874, and afterwards toured Australia with Madame Anna Bishop, Charles Lascelles, and others.

For volunteer services exceeding twenty years, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long-service medal has been awarded to Major John Meggett Forrester, 3rd Battalion, Otago Bine Volunteers, and -Mr Charles Ernest Clifton, lato lieutenant (pay and quartermaster], 4th Eegiment, Wellington Mounted Eifle Volunteers.

The temporary appointments of the following Assistant Inspectors ot Stock have been made permanent as from November 10th last:— Messrs Henry Albert William Ward, Henry White, John Washington Smith, John Paton Findlav, Philip Beere, Knrico Adrain Mc-Kin'lay, Alexander Cook and'Robert Thomas Soilness.

The absorption of the outlying boroughs into Invercargill leads to eoms official changes, and incidentally to the disclosure of some records. For example, Mr W. G. Mackay has been town clerk of East Invercargill for thirty-two years, and saw it develop from a sparsely populated settlement to a compact town. Mr C. W. Brown was town clerk of Avenal for thirty-three years. He was. .the re. cipient' of a resolution of approbation of his faithful services, and he was voted the sum of d£3 for each year of service. Mir Justice Denuiston 'was entertained by the Canterbury Caledonian Society at Christchurch. on Tuesday evening. In responding to tho toast of his health, he re-marked that he had almost attained his judicial majority.' Tho following month would complete twenty-one years of service on. the bench of., the Supreme CourtT. Reference was .also imade by his Honor to a report that he intended to resign. Someone, entirely without his authority, had drawn up a programme for him for a couple of years or so, and had telegraphed it all over the Dominion. It appeared that ho was to go to England and then to Scotland, and at the end of his year's holiday, resign and take up his residence .in' Scotland. "I assure you," he said,, "that I have not the slightest intention' of resigning and stayinjr in Scotland."