PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 244, 18 November 1914, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr A. E. Otway, of Auckland, is a guest at Hotel; ; .

Mr S. A. Russell (Dunedin) is staying at the United Service Hotel. Messrs E. E. Stark (Dunedin) and O. Macfarlane (Ashburton) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

The condition of Mr M. Murphy,.who has been laid up in his home in Armagh. Street, Lin wood, for some days, .is causing considerable anxiety to his friends^. On Monday the Rev. Jasper Smyth left for Palmerston South, where he will act as locum, tenens- during Decern-. ber and January. , Mr George D. Law, of Lyttelton, lias received news announcing that he has been successful in passing ,the /'A',' ; section J in the recent pharmaceutical i examination. • ■ if

Advice was received in Christchurch ; . yesterday stating that Mr J. I. Chrystallb has been gazetted lieutenant in the £ 13th Hussars, and sails immediately from Bombay for the front. 'The Rev. who lias b6en chairman of the Auckland district of the Methodist Church for seven years, and in charge' of the Grafton Road Chux*eh for four years, is retiring from:, active work in. the ministry, after liav-, ing completed' 44 years' service. Mr Bond will become a supernumerary minister, and will continue to reside ia Auckland.

Lieut. J. S. G. Eeid, R.N., who joined the Royal Navy same months ago as a lieutenant on the ' supplementary list, is now serving on H.M.S. Roxburgh, an armoured cruiser of 10,800 tons, attached to the tlrird cruiser squadron. Lieut. Reid was formerly an officer in the service of the -Union Steam Ship Company.. He hsea ,three, brothers serving. in tiie Army.in Belgium. %

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill states that. a .private cable message from Melbourne- records the death of Mr W. H. Calder, whose history i® linked with) 4 that of Invercargill, where he ' was one of the mercantile I arriving there about 1858. He was the first man to start a mercantile business in the town. An interesting fact is that deceased's third daughter was the wife of Dr. Angus McNab, whose death at the front was cabled last week.