PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 196, 23 September 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Charles Lewis (Hawke 's Bay) is at present in town. The. death is announced of Mr Andrew Harper, waterworks engineer to the borough of Invercargill. Mr J. D. Heagerty, a very, wellknown resident of Grey town, died recently.. Messrs E. Walkley (Sydney) and D. A. Craig (Wellington) arrived in town this morning and are staying at Warner's Hotel.

Visitors staying at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs J. C. Anderson (Dunedin), J. P. Bourke (Marlborough), and A. E. Browne (Blenheim).

Lieut.-Commander Brown, late of H.M.S. Torch, has succeeded Commander Newton as Naval Intelligence Officer at Wellington. Commander Newton accompanies the Expeditionary Force. Amongst the passengers by the ferry steamer for Wellington last evening were the Hon. H. F. Wigram, M.L.C., Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., Canon Garland, Sir George Clifford, Messrs Justice Hosking, Justice Stringer, L. M. Isitt, M.P., S. G. Raymond, K.C., and A. Fairbairn.

The death of the Rev. H. B. Redstone occurred suddenly at- his residence in Hawker Street, Wellington, last Sunday morning. Apart from a slight cold, he appeared to be in normal health, and had attended service at the Taranaki Street Methodist Chirch that morning. On returning hom3 he had gone to rest a while on the verandah, where he was later discovered to be dead. The Rev. Mr Redstone was a minister of the Methodist Church, and was born in. Newquay, Devonshire, in 1836. He was sent out to New Zealand by the United Methodist Free Church in 1871, to establish a Methodist Church in Napier. Afterwards he was for several years stationed in Wellington and Christchurch. On the union of the Bible Christian Methodist' Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church he, though still engaged in relieving, was given a superannuation allowance. He leaves a widow and two daughters, Mrs Fee, wife of the Rev. Thomas Fee, of Christchurch, and Mrs Sutherland, of Wellington.