PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9090, 8 July 1915, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Captain Wright left for the north if the Main Trunk express last night. The Hons. J. Barr and H. P. Wigram. M.L.C.’a, arrived from tbe south by the Wahiue yesterday morning.,.

The Wellington Diocesan Synod lost evening appointed tho Eey. A. L. Hansel! a governor of the Bishop HadfieldMemorial College and Hostel-

Engineer-Cominander Mackenzie, lata Admiralty representative at Westport, is to join the battleship Koyal Oak, row building -on the --Clyde. Dr Bernard Myers brother of Mr Arthur Myeis, M.P.. has been appointed a major in the British Army Medical Service Corps.

Mr M. J. Mack, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Eailwuy Servants, has returned to Wellington after a. six weeks* holiday spent in Sydney.

Leave of' absence for ten days from the sittings of the Legislative Council was yesterday 'granted to the Hou. Captain' W.‘ -D. Baillie (Marlborough) on account) of illness.

The .lions, ,6ir 'Walter Buchanan (Wellington) and j. A. Millar (Auckland), the two newly-appointed members of the-' Legislative .Council, made their first appearance in that Chamber y-esterdayv a*d were duly,sworn in.

Dr E. H- MakgiJJ,- who was given leave of from the position of district health officer at Auckland, has arrived, in London. Dr Makgill has been detailed for special work in the chemistry, department of the War Office. ;

Mr E. Oh Olsen, one of the first settlers at Norwood, Hawke's Bay, died re-i ceutiy at- Palmerston North. Tho de-, ceased arrived in Napier from in 1873,-and-resided at Palmerston forthe last twenty-four yeax-s. j

Passengers from the north by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning •included Messrs E. H. Taylor, A- I’Rattray." 1 -Lynch, -Higgins/ • “Thompson, i Barron. Cowley. Buxton, Bellow, Brown, and Miller.” ' " j

A Press ‘Association "message* from Melbourne"‘states'What “the MhlVa's New.* Zealand passengers include: Messrs Cameron, Jephsoii', Private Darhey,- Lieuten-; ant-Colohels" Mhchouald’" uniT"Batchelor Mrs Wilis, and. Misses "Tlidmas and. Forbes.,

Staying at the Empire Hotel while visiting 7 'Wellington-are Messrs W. Callaghan (HaWeraX E. L. Murray (Blenheim), It A. Toogood, .(Eeatherston), G. A. Shattky..(Hastiiigs), 11. Melville (Grey-| moul;h).„K -U-Dellows, C. B. Buxton, J. McLean (all of Auckland). i The following have been appointed the j first board o! management ■of the WeWi liugton branch of the" British-and For. eign Sailors* SocietyX’rcsident, Mr H.| I‘hilpott; secretary, Mr D. MoCallum;; treasurer, Mr C- W. Smith; members,! Captain Blackburne, Messrs H. Edwards.L. ■J. Brabin, - Mrs Philpott, and Miss B. Simpson., - . - j

Trooper Bert Eache, -of the Otago Mounted; Regiment, who went away with' the mala expeditionary force, has been, removed from Gallipoli to Egon Koubya Hospital.’’’lie was born at Clyde, Otago,' in 18fff,7.and ‘is the youngest, brother ofi Mr George Euclic, Commissioner of Pensions,. Wellington. Ho was bea d of a department in Messivi Bing, Hams a lid Co.’s branch warehouse at Invercargill' when he'enlisted.

Notification was' received by the (Rugby Union last night from "the Wellington Club' that the following members of the club have- been killed-in action: - Sergeants K: W. Lambert, E.- Dewhurst, A- J. , ’ M*.-*Bonaiv-and Privates J. N. Brookes and J. II- ilc-ddi’.-,. Privates S. M. O bey and G. A. Hampoon. have been, wounded. A similar Ipllpr., from the, Selwyn Club staled that P., Sheenu hasbeen killed, E. G. Faulkner died of' wounds, and L. Larkin wounded. j Sergeant J. L. S. Richardson, of the. Wellington -Battalion, who is reported to have—died—of - wounds, belonged to Hawke's Bay,' and was..the second son of Sir* A. E, Richardson, Bart., of PorthShlfe’.' Scotland.' *' IDS was educated at StJ' Andrews,'' anjl '■afterwards came to New Zealand’, being lor ’many years a resident*"©! "Waipukurau,, His elder brother, who succeeded to''the title some six of '*Sevei years agdj“ was recently killed in action .in,, Elagders. A tribute ,to Mhe,miemory of the late Archdeacon Cassell was paid by the Wellington Diocesan Synod nigbfc, when the following, .resolution,, .moved by the Rev. Q- ,M. Stent, was ,carried“ That! this Synod places dij record its high appredation jerf tbo Chrictian liic and character of James Robert Cassell, Archdeacon orWaitotara, and of his devoted! labours for the good of the Church, and, , further, that this Synod expresses to| Mrs Cassell its cordial and real pathy: With her: in her; great loss." j Advice' has been received by Mr W. Ryan of Abel Smith street, that hie eon. Driver Albert J- B- Ryan. has been slightly wounded in the arm and chest. D river "Ryan "who is a 'member of No. 3 Battifryl'T'ield’Artillery'Brigade, mam body New Zealand'expeditionary iorco, was admitted to the hospital at Malta' on. July- 2nd. Mr Kyan has two other sons who are members* of the expeditionary force-— Sergeant . C. Ryan, at present in .Alexandria, mud Lieutenant M. J. Ryan, Medical Corps, TreutUam camp."' ■ “ I Tuo death -occurred at'Nelson on Sunday last"dt v "'Mi'-'C' , harlcs‘ ; McDonald, who, was formerly a, member of the polico, force. He was born in .Ireland, and at; one time j serv-ed-in-the Royal Irish Constabulary.- i He came tolNew Zealand at the time, of the gold rush in 1862, and responded to the Governments call for additional police In consequence of the. operations of the liurgere-Kelly gang oL bushrangers. ..Mr McJ-ioqald served with the force for about twenty years at Hokitika, " and later at and Nelson- On retiring in J. 900 he took up • his residence in Nelson‘s A Press Association message from Sydney recordsxthe- -death sof Mr Ldwaid Brcndo n—Parsous. -Jo rmerfy secretary ol the Auckland Gas Company- Mr Parsons wan a native of Cornwall, and after learning the business in his • home'town of Launceston went to London for a”lime’.*'”’l'n 18%" he arrived in Auckland, and went on to Dunedin, where or several years' lie was on the olericaT’sEaff of Messrs Dalgety Itattray and cSr,'"‘merchants.. In 1868 Mr Parsons eiiiiered .the service of the Auckland Gas Company as accountant, and in the following year became secretary, a post' tion ho occupied iill he retired recently. He was travelling in the' East and died at Shioya. Japan.

Archbishop Joim-OlKeiliy, whose death,' at Adelaide was> reported yesterday, had been Archbishop-bf- Adelaide since January, IK)-I, and - formerly Bishop of Port Augusta. Iletwas bornir, the city of Kilkenny. Ireland, -on November 19tK 1646, And educated at St. Kiernan 6 College find All Hallows, Dublin- Ordained in* 1869, he ’ had a successful career in 'West 'Australia unfH'lß9B, when ha was appointed to the—new See of Port Augusta-- He was noted-for his admin-istrative-ability and-his-achievement in, reducing .the.-.debt of the ArchdioceseThrough his instrumentality the Passionist Fathers settled at G.kn Osmond, and Dominican Friars first' Font to South Australia. The' Archbishop also introduced the Marist Brothers, a teaching community for boys', and the Good Samaritans and the Loratto Sisters, a teaching community for girls, as well as tha Nursing Sisters in charge of the North Adelaide Hospital.