PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 263, 10 December 1914, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Major Davidson an-ived from the north yesterday. Mr Doughty, sen., of Wellington, is a guest at the United Service Hotel. Mr P. J. O'Regan, who was in Christchurch yesterday, left for Wellington last night. Captain H. Platts, of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr D. Cresswell, who is returning, from a trip to England, has arrived at Auckland by the Riverina from Sydney. A Sydney Press Association message states that the swimmer, Duke Kahanumoku, will arrive there by the Ventura on Monday. Mr Eric Whitcombe, who represented the New Zealand publishing firm of Whitcombe & Tombs in London, has joined thp second regiment of King Edward Horse. Mr 11. Saint-George, musical examiner for Trinity College, London, arrived from the South last evening. He has now completed his examinations in the Dominion and will leave for Sydney to-day. Private J. T. Brown, who hails frpm the Middleton district and is going to' the front with the second Expeditionary Force, has been presented with a pair of field glasses by the residents of Middleton. Dr Rogers, of Gore, has been offered the position of superintendent of the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, in succession to Dr Barclay, who has been appointed superintendent of the Wellington Hospital. Amongst the visitors to Christchurch staying at Warner's Hotel are: —Messrs G. W. Brown (Westralia), P. Grant GUrroch (Dundee, Scotland), Geo. Rutherford (Springbank), C. J. Richardson (Wellington), and F. D. Clayton (Wellington). Major W. R. Pinwill, who went with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to Samoa as staff officer to the commandant, Colonel R. Logan, returned to Christchurch yesterday. 'Major Pinwill will proceed to Trentliam shortly to join the reinforcement contingent now encamped there. News has been received in Dunedin of the death at sea off Madeira, of Mr' Edmund Joachim, son of Mr George i Joachim, managing director of, the Westport Coal Company, The late Mr Joachim was an engineer on the steamer Hiirsdale, which left Bristol for South American ports on July 31, and was captured arid sunk by a German cruiser. The crew of the Hursdale were landed at Para, in Brazil, arid advice came to hand subsequently that they had sailed for England. On the journey Home Mr Joachim succumbed to typhoid fever. . Mr Thomas. Adkison Gates, who died at Ashburton on Monday, at the age of 82, had been a resident in that town for 35 years. He survived his wife by two and a-half months. Mr Gates arrived in New Zealand with his wife and young family in 1864, settling first in Christchurch and going to Ashburton in 1879. Mr and Mrs Gates were married at St. Paul's Church, Southsea, in 1852, and they celebrated the golden and diamond jubilees of their wedding. The deceased gentleman did gOod work for the Anglican Church, and was a chorister for 50 years. He leaves sii daughters and three sons (seven of the family being married), 18 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. The death occurred yesterday of Mrs Frances Jane Lilly, widow of the late Mr Alfred Lilly. Mr and Mrs Lilly were'early settlers in New Zealand, and saw the pioneering M ays in Timaru and Soxith Canterbury. Their first residence, in Timaru was a sod hut, which MiLilly erected owing to the scarcity of accommodation in those days. \lt was

probably the dampness of this primitive abode which caused Mrs Lilly to contract rheumatic fever, which had caused her more or'less suffering from that time. Mrs Lilly, like her late husband, came from a musical family, and she particularly interested in choir music. Mr and Mrs Lilly were well known both in Christchurch and Dunediu, and their deaths, within a year-of each other, will cause sincere sorrow to many friends.

Daring' the past day or two the Wanganui Harbour Board dredge has struck a patch of shell rock along the wharf. This is not a natural formation, however, but is thought to be some of the rock protection which, during the heavy earthquake experienced many years ago, slipped into the riverbed. Of all the armies fighting surely the record of one family having the largest number of sons under the colours belongs to France. Jean Noe, a young Chasseur attached to a regiment at present stationed at Nice, informed his officers that he belonged to a family which had no fewer than seventeen brothers fighting. Jean Noe is a native of Lille. Only about half the flaxmills in the Manawatu district are working at present. Messrs A. and L. Seifert have closed their big Miranui mill at Makerua, at which 170 or 180 men were employed. It is their intention to open again at the New Year, but the present actiou has been necessary through the slump in the hemp market since the outbreak of the war. GET RID OF RHEUMATISM IN ALL ITS FORMS. Urie acid causes Rheumatism —that is certain. Lots of people, because they have a pain in the back, think their kidneys are wrong. Often it is Lumbago—a form of rheumatism caused by uric acid —and taking kidney medicine won't do the least bit of good. Our Rheumatic Pebbles are a wonderful medicine; they clear the uric acid out of the system. They contain no drug that wili produce the "drug habit." 2/6 box, thre boxes for 7/-. A. M. LOASBY, (With W. F. McArthur), the Only Prescribing Chemists, 679 Colombo Street, 1 Christchurch.