PERSONAL

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13635, 25 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL

Cable advice has been received at Christehurch that Lieutenant G. W. Chapman, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, was killed in action in France. Lieutenant Chapman (says a Press Association message) was a Christ's College boy.

The Presbyterian General Assembly elected the Rev. W. Scorgie, of Mornington, to be Moderator next year.

Lieutenant J. S. G. Reid, R.N., formerly an officer in the Union. Company's service, has joined the Royal Navy, and is lieutenant on H.M.S. Roxburgh, 10,800 tons.

Mr A. E. Rowden, of the Agricultural Department, has been promoted to the position of inspector of offices, and will return from Christchurch and take up his residence in Wellington after the New Year.

A Melbourne Press Association cable states that the Malwa's New Zealand passengers are Messrs Horton (2), Cresswell, Wilson, Rein, Barton, Nathan, Valder, and Abbott: Mesdames TJoin, Nathan; Valder, and Mair; Misses Gilbertson, Desehler (2), and Macpherson.

A number of the second-lieutenants in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force now on its way to "Great Britain have been ..promoted to their full first lieutenancies, their promotion dating from October 14th, in the following order of seniority:—Lieutenants C. H. Mead, E. H. S. Batchelor, F. Starnes, A. E. Forstyth, A. D. Stitt, W,. G. Skelton, and C. C. Barclay.

Mr Charles Zachariah. who has been connected with the Public Trust Office for many years, and is at present Wellington district manager and Acting Official Assignee, has been appointed .Deputy Public Trustee and Official Assignee for Otago in succession to Mr Kendall, who is being transferred to the charge of the Public Trust Office in Christclnirch, as successor to. ths late Mr G. A. Smyth.

The many friends and old pupils" of Mr C. A. Richards, formerly headmaster of St Mary's old school, Nelson, will regret to learn that a severe illness hius necessitated his entering a private hospital m Masterton. Despite his'advanced years Mr Richards has retained his health and activity in a remarkable degree, up to the present, and his early convalescence will bo learned of with pleasure by a very wide c'irclt;.

Mr J. A. Murdoch (who was the selected Reform candidate for \vestland. mid retired on Saturday) lias now resigned the Mayoralty of Kumara, after many years' useful civic service.— Press Association.