PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17424, 19 September 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL

The St. Kilda Band has unanimously i elected Mr G B. Laidlaw to bo its con- c cluctor. (. , K - F. King, of Hastings, and .T r M'Llelowncy (chairman of the Y.M.C.A r country work department) arrived iii town tby the express last evening' to attend the r wccK-ond confeienco on Y.M.C.A. country c. activities. Dr Paterson, mcdical missionary of tho t Presbyterian Church to China, who recently came to Now Zealand on furlough n hps been accepted by the military authori- •= hies for service for at least, one year in "> Samoa, and leaves Dunedin by the north express this morning to join the steamer at « Auckland. Th' 3 death took place at tlie Dominican o Dunedin, 011 Saturday, of the Rev. Mother Mary Rose, who was the first s < r>upil of the Order to bo received into tho s* :onvent in Dunedin 41 years ago. At dif- !»' erent times Mother Rose was the Mother 41 superior of the Dominican Convents at rt Jamaru. Invercargill, BhilT. and Queenstown c< Mi" was i} daughter of the late Mr Patrick r < -.Dit-'.vx.'ll, of Dunedin; was born at Bolf-i=t F Victoria: and was a sister of Sister Bereh- „. nans (Pfclon .Convent), Mrs W S Kinoof Christ church). Mr f. Turner (Whanga- °j 110 a). Mrs E. livriin-v (Victoria), and Air n. Cantwcll (Dunedin). ' " 'P| A message from Greymouth announces o\ ho death on Saturday of Mr James Warnes 1 i pioneer of the Coast. Deceased had been T i-ling for two years. He was fO years of 1 CP. and was the father of Mr B. C iVarnes. Base Records, Wellington. ' " — 1 . r[ l Fifteen thousand Jews are now fiHitin"111 the western front: between 60,000 and re 0.000 are serving with the fore,v. j.j A claim recently received by the Air Raid cr< 'omnensation Committee, was for amonkev •'hioh was the only casualty in a house- in rr he London district during aGo tha raid pi Crops of corn are burned in Arsren- in ina because of a lack of ships in which T o export tho cereal.