PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

It is probable that Colonel Gibbon, Director of Military Training, will visit Nelson shortly.

Tho Hon. Colonel G. J. Smith, of th 6 Canterbury Infantry Brigade,' has inspected the camp at Tapawera.

Tho candidates for tho Mayoralty o f Timaru aro Messrs E. X, 'Guinness (the present Mayor), W. H. Hunt (a borough councillor), and W Angland (.ex-Mayor). &

Chaffey, officer commanding the Canterbury military district, and Major Jjihus. General Staff officer for the district, will arrive in Nelson tomorrow, on route to the Tapawera camp. Jhey will remain in the district three or four days.

Mr T. A. H. Field, M.P, for Nelson, who was accompanied by Dr. Violet Field and Miss Field, spent the Easter holidays in the Sounds portion of the electorate. Tho weather' was .perfect, and the party thoroughly enjoyed th^ outing.

A Press Association cable from Sydney states that Mr A. A. Winslow, United States Consul-General to New Zealand, arrived by the Ventura.

Mr Percy Muter has been appointed actuary of the Government Insurance Department, vice the late Mr Morris V s; A H°. IS a,Fdlow of the Institute or Actuaries (London;, and was tho first person in Australasia to obtain that distinction. He joined the Department in 1879.—Press Association

According to the "Southland Times'Mr G. B. Marsh, who has been on the staff of the Ocean Beach freezing works for the past fifteen years, has been, appointed to a high-salaried position in Russia. _ The position will entail the supervision of the construction of similar works to those at Ocean Beach,, and the management of them, when they are constructed, for an influential London firm. The engagement is for five years with full expenses paid from New .Zealand.

Dean Mahoney, of Onehunga, and Dean Hackett, of.Paeroa—will in future be officially known as Monsignors, that dignity having heen conferred upon them by the Holy See. Monsignor Mahoney is a native of Auckland.

The doath is reported at Palmerston North, after many years' illness, of Mrs Martha Anne Card, wife of Mr Alfred T. Card, for many years proprietor of the "Marlborough Press," Picton. Shet arrived in Picton with, her parents in 18-58, and married and resided there until 1904. She loaves a family of iive daughters and three sons.