PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17083, 15 August 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Press Association message from Wet*-" lington states that it is announced that Mr*s Jauies PrendeviJle, of Eketahuna, has beea'' appointed Crown Prosecutor for Welling* - ton, vice Mr V. R. Meredith. * A Capetown cable message states.' that Captain Rev. E. W. Juiien, an chaplain (Anglican), is missing/' He is a resident of Newtown, Tasmania. He ao-~ oompanied the First Contingent, and served' in Egypt and Flanders. .He 'was m- * valided home suffering from shell shock." Arriving at the Cape on the 4th inst, was removed to Wynberg Military Hospi-? tal. awaiting a boat for Tasmania. Ha-; walked out on'the morning of July 9;-and" 3 notliing has since been heard of him.' ■■■'

Mr jf. W. Rowley,' Secretary for' Labour;* who recently underwent a severe has now made a, complete recovery, and haa ' again resumed) his duties •at the Labour * Department (says our .- Wellington corre- \ spondent). V '-v . A Press Association message froni'\Hasi3 tings announces the death, after a longif illness, of the Rev. Father ••Augttstme'l Keogh, S.M., B.A. He was born at'-DuK§s lin in 1858, and was one of the bestVknowii-; and most popular priests in the . Roman V Catholic Church. From 1901 'to 1909. was rector of St. Patrick's College, lington, during wHich time 400.-boys joyed -the privilege of, his direction. .Suc-'ii; ceeding Dean Smyth in 1909, he took charge J of the Hastings parish, and laboured' there-- 5 until 1915, when he again joined tho staff:, of St. Patrick's College. The funeral, wii*; take place at Hastings on Thursday. The death is reported of Mr Ynyr W.-J.v' Donald, manager of the North branch of tho Bank of New Zealand, until| a few weeks ago, when iU-health, riecess&f* tated his retirement from that positibnij? Ho was born in Lyttelton, a son. of .. Di® Donald, one of the Canterbury pioneersS and, after being educated at Christ's ho entered the service of tho Bank of'Nevp.l Zealand. He was at various times stationed;/ at Temuka, Lyttelton, and in North aiid in 1888 ho joined the Christchiirch.; office, where he remained for several being subsequently appointed manager.tatfj Port Chalmers, whence he was promoted toV' his final position as manager of the North? Dunedin branch. In Bis earlier days late Mr Donald was a first-class and also a very keen' volunteer.. He w.*isV for about two years a member of the Col-.f lege Rifles. When stationed in Temuka - Iwfc joined the Temuka Rifles, in 1874. and on the formation of the Lyttelton Naval Bm-'v gade, in 18S0, ho was one of the: pioneers members. When he transferred to Otagoj' ho became a member of tho Hussars, rer maining with that corps until ho returned to; Christchnrch in 1888._ He was then for two. years a lieutenant in the Lyttelto'n Naval? Artillery, but in 1890 lie transferred to E Battery. Five years' later ho became a J captain in the battery, a rank which he heldi for several years. • Mr George Ward Draper, who passed-' away at Milton last week, was one 'of the : oldi identiites of Otago. Born in 1844, he' arrived in Melbourne in 1864, and came to* New Zealand shortly afterwards to try his; luck on the Dunstan and other goldfielda, s where he had some stirring experiences. He had been trained, however, at an agricui--' tural college in Derbyshire, and had quired a good knowledge of botany .and; horticulture, and) this he turned to account? by starting in business as a florist andnurseyman in Dunedin, his nursery situated in Union street, close to the nites of tho University. He was an active mem*ber of tho Royal_ Horticultural Society ofe. tho time of the visit of the Duke of Edia- • burgh in 1869. He was in business as aseedsman and fruiterer in Onmani from' 1874 to 1881, and thereafter lived in Mik:-: ton and Balclutba until 1887, when he be-' came : a pioneer settler at Ratanui, rough--ing itt and carving out a home in the bush under all the disadvantages then existing. Failing health caused him to return to MiK} ton in 1898, where he resided for the resfci of his life. Ho leaves a widow and up family or six sons and five daughter^' l ; Tiie sons are Messrs John George of Hobsonville, Auckland: James and Wil-2 liam Draper, of Waitara, .Taranaki;' Patricks! and Peter Draper, of St. Andrews," South* Canterbury; and Percy Draper, on active? service in tho 3rd Battalion, New Zealand! Rifle Brigade. Tho daughters are Mrs' J;! Hunter. Bakrlutha: Mrs C. Bryee, ling; Mrs D. Rcid, Caversham ■ Mrs -• Wij R, Jones, Port Chalmers; and Miss Milton. -Vi