PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9719, 23 July 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Primate of New Zealand ha» nominated the Rev. Honi Pavata, vicar of Riverton, as chaplain to the Maori Contingent serving in Prance. Tho chaplain who has been acting is ro turning to New Zealand invalided. Messrs Ualgety and Company have received cabled aavice from their head office in Loudon that Mr Arthur I’. Blake bus resigned his seat- -on the company's bourn of direoiors , owing to tailing health. Tho lion. Sir Arthur Pawley has been elected (o fill the vacancy. Among the visitors at (be Grand Hotel are Mr Chas. G. p. Pager. Miss llitcbin lChristeliuiv.lt). Miss Murphy 1 iChvi-t----church). .Mr K H. Short (Nelson). Mi, Kavc (Christchurch). Mr .lottos .(Christchurch). Mr and Mrs .Dot\ .R.iddiford (Marton). Captain Barlow, Mt.vrs Raw, Warnock. E. Glover, DixOn '(Auckland). Mr W. H. Rose, represenring the Beneficiary Fund of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, is ut pi-rent in Auckland, in connection with the special appeal which is being made throughout the Dominion for a nr.uituuui sum of .£15,000, and proposes placing tho claims of the, fund " beforo church members in ,lhe ir \(ickland. Presbytery. The total amount promised to dato exceeds £10,600. The guests at Barrett’s Hotel include Mr and Mrs McDonald (Palmerston North). Messrs J. W. McCrostio and A. 11. Forbes (Christchurch), Captain, Mr, and Miss Truscott (Masterton), Mr D. Dennehr (Christchurch), Mr S. Read (Blenheim). Mr W." Park ‘ (Hawcfa) "Air O. M. Smith (Palmerston 1 ‘North;. Mr and Mrs P. Bourko (Wanganui), Miss AlcCuskor (Blenheim), Mr A. Huctt, Mr Seymour (Dunedin). Among those staying at the Empire Hotel are Mr 11. Bethwaite (Nelson), Mr H. C. Blytb. (Dunedin), Air IT. Walshe (Timartt), Mr and Mrs Sommers (Christ, church). Mr and Mrs 0. S. Thomson (Feildine). Air Herbert Pryoe (Halcombek Mr Harold Jarvis. (Palmerston North), Air A. Ross (Foxton), Aliss X. EL. David, son (Christchurch), Mr LasoeUea Farrington Air J. M. Cadigan(Dcep Creek). Air Percy Grainger, the Australian pianist, who enjoys a world-wide reputalion (says the New York “Times”) has ioined the Port Hamilton (New York State) Alilitary Bond as qua oboe .player, for which he will be paid three dollars (Ids fid) a month. He has sacrificed valuable concert engagements, and has permitted his long hair to be cut. Accord, ins to the New York “Evening Pest.” Afr Grainger took out his first naturalisation papers before enlising for service as a bandsman in "’the United State* Army. < lllllll 1 ' Mr William Philooxv one- of —iher bt*d known builders in Auckland, and one of the oldest residents died on Thursday, at his residence in Buchanan street. Devonport, in his seventy-ninth year. Mr Philcox came to Auckland in 1855, and has been in tho building trade very extensively ever since. Amongst tho buildings he erected werq the South British and the Ferry Buildings, arid, tho firm has done extensive building of freezing works all over the Waikato. Mr Philcox was a member of the Choral Society in 1857. and took a great inter' est in music, for many years being or. ganist at Trinity Church, Devonport. Mrs Eliza Jane Rylance, who died at Auckland last Monday, was in her seventy-third year. . She arrived in Auckland in the sailing vessel Louise, in 1865, about the middle of the Maori War. She is survived by her husband, Mr William Rylance, well - known amongst Maori War veterans,' also by two sons, Mr Gilbert Alervyh Rylance, of London, and Mr P. D. Rylance. Brisbane; aflso three daughters, Airs Alf, Moore and Mrs Russel Graham, of Auckland, and Mrs W. Lambert, of San Francisco. The deceased lady war bright right up to the last, notwith. standing fourteen months.' .severe nulls, position. She was, interred, at. on Wednesday. 1,’.,, Mr A. E. P. East,, of .the TLyttalton Times” staff, has received a communication from the Base Records Office, Melbourne, concerning his . eon, Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant J. H. East, of the Australian Forces. The letter encloses an extract from the London “Gazette," January 2nd, 1917. relating to conspicuous services rendered by fJ.Q.S. East. The following dispatch has been received by the Secretary of State for War from General Sir, Douglas Haig, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the British Armiesin (France;—"E have tho honour to submit the nam* of the undermentioned non-commission-ed officer, serving under my command, whose distinguished and gallant service* and devotion to duty I consider deserving of special mention: No. 2992 Squads ron Quartermaster-Sergeant John Henry East.

At the Normal School oa -Saturday night the Wellington school, teachers now in camp wore entertained at a farewell social hr the Wellington Public Schools’ ■Assistant-Masters' Association. In proposing the toast of the soldiers, the president of the association, Mr J. C. Burns. expressed the keen satisfaction that members felt,at the splendid. response teachers throughout the Dominion had made to the They were especially proud of the response made and the part played by Wellington assistant-masters. Lieutenant J. Trainer and Corporals Beasley (Auckland) and, J. Fanning responded. Daring the evening musical and other items were rendered by Corporals F. Procker, C. Robertson P. M. Jackson, and Messrs H. Miller. W. B. Brown, F. Hemplcinan, B. T. Blake, and Kirk. Deep regret was ex. pressed at the death of Sergeant 5- W. Dempsey, who during his long term, as assistant at Clyde quay school, had. feeen closely associated with all forma of school snort.

The. Duke of Buccleuch, K.T., who has accented the office of president of the Navy League, entered (he .Eoyal Navy in. 1577 and served for nine_ Jgara, retiring as a lieutenant iu"'l88(>i" As lord. Dalkeith he represented 'Rdxbufglmhire in the House of Commons from 189 a 'to. .1906, and he has been Lord ’Lieutenant" of Dumfriesshire since 1815. He married in 1b93 Lady Margaret Alice Bridgcman, a daughter of the Earl J of Bradford, and their eldest son, the Earl of Dalkeith, is a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, The Duke succeeded' his father* in (914, and is a large landowner .in„tfa«, / Soutb of Scotland‘and in Northamptonshire, where he carries oh" the family tradition bv being a good and popular land, lord. The Navy League has been fortunate in securing his services as president. and mav confidently look forward to the duties of the office being discharged in a manner worthy,.of the fihe example set by his predecessor. .Montagu House, the London home of the Buocleuchs. has been handed over to the Government by the Duke for the period of the war. and is now the Ministry of Labour.