PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Mr 11. G. EJI, M.l\, left for the north last evening. The Hon. Sir Charles Bowen left, for Wellington last evening. Captain Tarris arrived from Wellington by the Manuka this morning. The Hon. 11. F. Wigram, M.L.C., went north by last night's ferry streamer. Mr Free Holmes returned from a visit to America by the Manuka this morning. A London cable message reports the death of Sir James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Rev. John Walker, M.A., of Aramoho, Wanganui, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. H. Watson, M.A., as vicar of St. Matthew's, Masterton. Visitors to Cliristchurch staying at Warner's Hotel include Messrs A. G. Purchas (Melbourne), D. P. Phillips (Sydney), and E. Farrell (Timaru). Messrs 11. F. Marshall and G. M. Marshall (Dunedin), 11. A. Humphreys (Ashburton), and S. A. Plimmer (Wellington) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr W. A. Recce, general manager in the Argentine of the General Electric Company of the United States, will leave Cliristchurch for Monte Video on August 12. Mr F. L. Carter, of Christ's College, is returning to Clifton, where he was formerly a master. He departs for England in the Ruahine in about a fortnight's time. Messrs C. Meßay (Auckland) and H. Friedlander and E. W. Friedlander (Aslibnrton) arrived in Cliristchurch yesterday. They are staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr J. J. Clark, Mayor of Dunedin, Mr H. Holland, Mayor of Cliristchurch, and Mr Cyrus Williams left for Wellington last evening to attend a conference of Patriotic Fund Committees. Mr J. P. McMahon-Box, who has been in the New Plymouth Customs Office for the past three or four years, Has been promoted to the position of Assistant Resident Commissioner at Niue, in the Cook Group. The Rev. S. La wry has been advised by the Minister of Defence that his son, Lieutenant R. A. R. Lawry, of the Main Expeditionary Force, has recovered from his wounds, and has been sent to the front. Sergeant Alec. Boeufve, son of Madame Boeufve, wife of the French Consul at Liverpool, who has been a j sergeant with, the mounted troops in camp at Trentham for the past four ■ months, has been promoted to the rank i of lieutenant. Mr G. G. Robieson, M.A., has been appointed Registrar of Victoria College, Wellington. Mr Robieson has been connected with the college staff for 20 years. He graduated from Canterbury College and obtained his degree with first-class honours. Advice was received by yesterday's mail that Messrs W. P. and A. H. Guiney, of Cliristchurch, who recently left for Sydney to join the Australian Reinforcements for the front, had been passed iu the medical examination, and were to go into the Liverpool Camp last Saturday. A Dunedin Press Association message states that it is understood that Mr C. McKenssie, at present travelling inspector in the Wellington district, has been promoted to take charge of the Otage district of the Public Works Department. No information is yet available as to which district the present engineer in charge in Dunedin—Mr J. McEnnis—is to be transferred. Mr John Paterson, secretary of the Wellington Club, who died on Sunday, was a native of Scotland, and was for several years chief steward in the service of' the Union Steam Ship Company. He then took over the management of the Arcadia Hotel, in Wellington, and some four or five years ago he was appointed secretary of the Wellington Club. He leaves a widow and two young children. A very pleasant evening, given by Mr E. Spencer, of the New Zealand Insurance, Co., who has been transferred to Napier, to the committee of the Linwood Amateur Swimming Club, was spent at Broadways on Friday last. During the evening the captain, Mr A. J. Flanagan, on behalf of the committee, presented Mr Spencer with a pipe and tobacco pouch, suitably inscribed, as a small token of esteem. He expressed the club's regret at losing Mr Spencer's valuable services as deputy captain and handicapper for the past two years, and wished him every success in his new sphere.. _ Mr R. C. Tennent, of Invercargill, received cabled advice from Cape Town on Monday, stating that his two sons, Sergeants Harold and Hugh Tennent, of the Natal Light Horse, were leaving South Africa for New Zealand by the Rimutaka, with the intention of enlisting in the Reinforcements from here. Both lads were attached to the Union Forces under General Botha, and for the past ten months have taken part in the campaign for the conquest of German South-West Africa. That mission having been accomplished, the Natal Light Horse have been disbanded, and Mr Tennent's sons are coming to New Zealand to enlist. They are expected to arrive in Invercargill on September 7. Another son of Mr Tennent, Sergt. Kenneth Tennent, is with the mounted regiment of the 6th Reinforcements.