PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 364, 10 April 1915, Page 7

PERSONALS.

* Major Robinson left for Wellington last evening. t Commissioner and Mrs Hodder left for the North last evening. The Rev. A.iH. Sharp and Mrs Sharp, of Auckland, are visiting their parents in Christchurch. Mr Harold Beauchamp has been reelected chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand. » Captain Lilico, of the Veterinary Corps, will leave Christchurch this even-, iug on his way to Trentham. Mr Matosaku Tsuchiya, a Japanese journalist, is at present in Christchurch staying- ; at Warner's Hotel. Captain J. Bone, marine superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping •Company, left for the North last night. Mr William Pryor, -secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Association, arrived in town from the North, yesterday morning. Mr Harrington Reynolds and Mr Maurice Ralph, both of Sydney, arrived in Christchurch this morning, and are staying.at the Clarendon Hotel. Constable Fryer has been appointed ttf* succeed Constable Scott at the Chatham Islands station, the latter having been transferred to the local police station. . v:-;: ■• >.).'., . ' ':.. -■■ Mr J. T. Brice' has : been appointed' officer cominandihg the Lyttelton unit of the Citizens' Defence -Corps, ia succession to Major; F.i.H.. Knights, who has resigned- - . ~: .The-Rev. Ai F: Burchell; who has been acting as the minister at St. Andrew's Church, has left for the North to take up his new appointment at Cambridge, Waikato. , Visitors to Christchurch staying at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs W. A. Stowley and E. Ginningham (Dunedin), Thos. Pringle (Wellington), and; Arthur Allen (Sydney). They arrived \ in town this morning. His Lordship Bishop Cleary left Auck: land on"''Monday by the Makura for; Australia, in order to recuperate on a j health trip. : During the Bishop's absence the diocese will be administered \ by the Bight Rev. Monsignor Brodie, Vicar-GeneraL Sergeant Brown and Sergeant Bartley, of Invercargill, who returned to New in charge of the sick contingent from Egypt, left last night for Wellington to report to the' Defence Department prior to their return to Egypt. The death occurred at Timaru on Wednesday of Captain H. T. Heckler, D.5.0., formerly of Waikouaiti, latterly of Fairlie. He was a member of the fourth, seventh, and tenth South African contingents, and did excellent work in the Boer war, where lie gained the D.S.O. The cause of death was bloodpoisoning.

Dr 3. P. Frengley has been appointed D'eputy-Inspector-General of -Hospitals. Mr John Mackay,*of Wellington's at present in' Christchurch, staying "at Coker's Hotel. - * Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justiee,. wa» a passenger for- Wellington by last? night's ferry steamer. ' „ Mr C. J& Adamspn, of Lpndou, is staying at Warner's Hotel. He arrived in town this morning. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W. P. Massey) Teturned to Wellington last evening, after 'a two days' visit to Canterbury. Mr Hirani Hunter has been appointed to represent the Canterbury Drivers* Union at a general congress of Arbitration Union's to be held in Wellington in July.

The following doctors have been appointed by the • Minister of Public Health to constitute the Medical Board, in accordance with the Medical Practitioners' Act, passed last session:—Drs W. Irving (Christchurch), W. H. Parkes (Auckland), J. S. Elliott W. Newiands (Dunedin), H. Lindo Ferguson (Buhediu), and T. Hope Lewis (Auckland).' „..