PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 22

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Miss H. E. Ash has been appointed first assistant at tho Moeraki School, Miss Eva M. E. Woolliams junior assistant at the Miovi Hill School, and Miss C. M. Telfer junior assistant at tho St. Clair School. Ac the Christchurch Police Station a presentation of a case of pipes and smokers' . requisites was made to ex-Chief Detective Herbert, who recently retired on superannuation. Chief Detective MTiveney, in making the presentation on behalf of his colleagues, made eulogistic reference to the recipient's good qualities. Prior to their departure from Otakou, where they have • resided for the last six years, Mr and Mrs W. A. M'Donald were entertained by a number of residents at a social evening. During the course of the proceedings reference was made to the sterling qualities of Mr and Mrs M'Donald. and trio best wishes were expressed for their future success. A musical programme was submitted and supper dispensed. After occupying the position of chief inspector for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company in New Zealand for over 10 years, Mr F. R. Russell has retired owing to ill-health (says the Wellington" Post. Before going to Wellington Mr Russell was a banker in London for some years and had a seat on the board of the Loan and Mercantile Company there. ~ He went to London from Victoria, and now purposes returning to Australia to reside. Mr Clarke Johnson has been appointed to succeed Mr Russell as chief executive officer for his company in New Zealand. •' ' Mr A. L. Herdman, who has resigned his position as a member of the National Government to take up his appointment as a judge of the Supremo Court, in place of Sir John Denniston, was born at Dunedin in 1869, and is a son of tho late Mr Alexander Herdman, bank manager. Mr Herdman was educated at the Otago Boys' High School, and at Oamaru. He was admitted to the Bar in Dunedin in 1894, and practised at Palmerston and Naseby. Ho was a member of the Naseby Borough Council, and Mayor in 1898. Ho was elected member for Mount Ida in the House of Representatives in 1902, which position he held till 1905. Having transferred his business to Wellington, he was elected member for Wellington North in 1908, and has represented the constituency ever since. Mr Herdman was appointed Attorney-general and Minister of Justice in 1912. and in 1915 he was the Minister chosen by the National Government to establish and control the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department. Mr W. Downie Stewart. M.P., returned to Dunedin from his health-recruiting trip to Sydney by the north express on the 7th inst. Miss Stewart, who accompanied her brother to Sydney, also returned by the express. The Dean of Nelson has been offered the Rectorate of Toorak, Melbourne. Dr Weeks has declined the invitation. At a meeting of the Mataura Presbytery the call from, tho Winton congregation to the Rev. A. M'Neur, of Knapdale, was sustained by the Presbytery and accepted by Mr M'Neur. Miss Vickery, assistant mistress at the Rangiora High School, has been appointed to the staff of the Waitaki Girls' High School, as successor to Miss M. _ Turner, who has been appointed first assistant at the Rangiora High School. An old resident of Auckland, Dr Charles W. Sanders, died suddenly of heart failure in a tramcar in that city on Monday, 4th inst. Dr Sanders, who was 83 years of age, arrived in New Zealand h'ora Engine! 50 years ago, and had practised as a homoeopathic doctor during the whole of that period. He was the general secretary of the Theosophical Society of New Zealand, and returned recently from attending the convention of the eociety in Wellington. Mr G. H. Jupp sent his resignation of the Woodlands charge to the meeting of the Presbytery of Southland on the sth, as he has accepted an invitation to become assistant minister at Knox Church, Dunedin. The resignation, which is to take effect from February 28; was accepted with regret. A call to tho Rev. Adam Begg, of Wallacetown, and formerly of Tapanui, from the Highfield congregation through the Timaru Presbytery, was sustained, Mr Begg accepting the call. The reinstatement of E. P. England as -a lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Horse Artillery for the gallantry he showed in the field while serving in the ranks in a Devonshire regiment, has recently been reported. It is explained that he lost his commission after the retreat from Mons, in which he was in command of an ammunition column. After fivo days' and nights' marching, with only an hour's sleep, one 'pitch dark night the horses had been reduced to a walking pace, when a staff officer came up at full gallop and said: " If you don't got a bustle on you will be surrounded." Colonel. England, thinking to save the column, told his men to throw away some of the ammunition. This was discovered, and Lieutenantcolonel England was tried by court-martial and dismissed from the sei-vice. Later he joined the South African Horse, and went through tho campaign in German SouthWest Africa. After being invalided home, he transferred to the Devonshires, and fought in several battles in France. He was twice wownded, and is now unfit for further service. Tho death has been announced of Sir Alexander Meadows Rendell, in his eightyninth year. His wife was a daughter of Captain Hobson. R.N., who hoisted the British flag at the Bay oE Islands in 1840, and formally annexed Now Zealand. Sir Alexander Rendell designed important harbour and other works in Great Britain and India, and had been consulting engineer to the India Office since 1874._ M. Peter Simonoff is said to have been appointed as the Russian Consul-general in Melbourne. He waa until comparatively recently a resident of Broken Hill. Ho was a member of the Labour Volunteer Army, an extreme " fighting " body. About six months ago (tho Argus says) he leftBroken Hill for Brisbane, whe.ro he founded a Russian paper which the Federal authorities suppressed._ In Broken Hill he was a militant unionist, and was registered as an alien. Mr J. A. Macleod, of the Bank of Australasia, who is at present temporarily in charge of the-Morrinsville branch, has been appointed a sub-inspector of the bank Mr Macleod, who has been on active service and was wounded in the fighting at the Somme. returned from the front in Mar. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states the Rev. Father Gilbert. M.A., has been appointed rector of St. Patrick's Oolelge. He has had a distinguished scholastic career and is the first old boy of tho

collego to occupy the position of rector. TJio outgoing rector, the Rev. Dr Kennedy, 8.A., has been appointed principal of the Maiist Fathers' Seminary at Ureenineadows. A Press Association message from Auckland reports the death of Mr John Ford Hartland, for 12 years secretary of the Auckland Racing Club. Mr Hartlund, who was 55 years of age, formerly resided at Christchurch, and some years ago was ono of the leading cricketers in" the Canterbury district. . The death 'is announced, after a short illness, of the Very Rev. Dean Carew, aged 69 years (says a Grcymouth Press Association message). He was a native of Tipperary, Ireland. He had been for 34 ycai'9 in charge of the Roman Catholic diooeso of Westland. Acting under the doctor's instructions, the Rev. T. N. Griffin, .of the local Methodist Church, is applying to the coming annual conference to be made a permanent supernumerary. Mr Griffin has Tjeen in the active ministry 38 years, having entered it vnder the Wosleyun Conference, England, and continued it in New Zealand since 1832. since which time ho has laboured in several circuits, both in the North and South Islands. Miss Dora Little, teacher in charge of the cookery department at the Dunedin Technical School, has been offered, and has accepted, appointment on the staff of theGrammar School, Auckland. Miss Little's work in connection with the local school is well known, and her success therewith has led to her being selected to organise the cookery classes about to be undertaken in the northern institution. The death occurred at Suva, on January 24, of Mrs Ruby Price, the wife of, Dr M, D. Price, Medical Officer of Health, Suva, and formerly of New Zealand. A week previously Mrs Price had partaken of meat prepared with curry. Symptoms of ptomaine poisoning set in, but a turn had taken for the better, and hopes were entertained for her recovery. Collapse occurred, however, Mrs Price leaves two children by a previous marriage. Dr and Mrs Price originally came from Basra, on the Persian Gulf.