PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17575, 17 March 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr H. A. Bauchamp, general manager of Kodak, Australasia (Limited), is at present on a visit to Dunedin.

A Levin Press Association telegram announces tho death of the Rev. Joseph White, Presbyterian minister; aged 80 years. He came to New Zealand in the early sixties, and was a missionary under the Commission from tho United Free Churches of England. After holding various important parishes in New Zealand he joined tho Presbyterian Church in 1887, and held parishes throughout the dominion. 1-Ie retired from, activ© work in 1910. Mr _T. K. Sidey, M.P., will return to Dunedin, this evening from the north. Mr S. R. Kennedy has arrived in Dun-, edin to arrange for the opening of a season by the Kennedy Concert Company. The Christchurch Sun of Wednesday last-reports-that their Excellencies the Gover-nor-General and Lady Liverpool invited Mr and Mrs A. E. G. Rhodes and a few other to "Elmwood" last evening to hear Miss Sadie Broad, a Dunedin singer of considerable promise. . Miss Broad sang several songs, which were greatly enjoyed by all who hoard her.

The New -Year's . honours list contained the announcement that Mr William Sinclair Marris, C.1.E., 1.C.5., joint secretary to the Government of India (Home Department), has been created a K.C.I.E. ' Sir William was born - in 1873, and was educated at Wanjjanui College and Canterbury College, from which he passed to Christchurch, Oxford. He entered the Indian civil service in 1895, and went to the United Provinces as assistant magistrate the following year. Two years later he was Under-secretary to the Governor of the United Provinces, and has had promotion since. He was' a member. of the Executive Committee for the Coronation Durbar, and in 1913 was Acting Secretary to the Government of India (Home Department). Apart from being a very capable administrator, Sir, William has published a volume of English verse, "The Odes of Horace." For some years past Mr R. D. Douglas M'Lean, formerly of Napier, has generously provided, through the Australasian Club, for women's Christmas parties in Lindon for the wives and children of men who fell at Mons. This year the host was Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and the dinner was held at the Holborn Restaurant.' Sir Thomas himself presided, and the band of the Grenadier Guards played. Madame Ada Crossley and Mr Neil Kenyon sang several songs. The High Commissioner, arrayed as Father Christmas, presented the gifts to all the children. A number of Chelsea veterans were also present. Colonel' W. H. Parkes, C.M.G., C.8.E., who for nearly three years was in charge of the New Zealand Medical Service overseas, and who was recently recalled for duty in the dominion, has, at his own rebeen granted leave by the Government in order to attend some special courses of instruction on purely professional subjects which are now provided at various centres in England. After a long term of administrative work as D.M.S., N.Z.E.F., Colonel Parkes is anxious to become familiar with the most recent developments of medical science, and especially the treatment of ailments resulting from the war. He expects to arrive in the dominion about the end of May. The news of the death of Mr Henry Herbert Wise will have come ns a great shock to those of liis friends and acquaintances who wei-e not aware that for a week he had been suffering from a serious illness. He was the third son of Mr Henry Wise, the founder of the directories which, known by his name, are published in Australia and New Zealand, and during recent years was entrusted with the principal direotion of the preparation of these volumes. His business made Mr "Harry" widely known to business people throughout the dominion, and his genial nature made hosts of friends for him. His public activities were confined to membership of the High Street Schobl Committee, on which he sat for eight years, and of which' he was an energetic and unusually,capable secretary. He leaves a wife and three young .sons to mourn' him.