PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13998, 31 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Albert Norman, who for many yearn was stage manager for Mr Bland iloit, has enlisted for active service.

Captain F. Beamish, of the head v !oo of the Postal Department, who served- with the 6th Contingent during the Boer War, has enlisted.

Private advice has been received to the effect that Lieutenant-Colonel P. G. Femviek, of Christchurch, who left with the Main Expeditionary Force as Deputy-Assistant Director of Medical Services, left Egypt a few days ago for New Zealand on short furlough.

Mr. E. Proctor, the well-known Christckurch artist, who is leaving to take i\, position at the Elam School of Art, Auckland, was entertained by the council of the Christchurch Art Society, and presented with a silver tea service]

v A Dnnedia Pross Assciation telegram reports The death of Mr G. C, Israel, chairman of the Otago Education Beard, who was a well-known banker.

Mr J. A. M. Allan, of Waikari, who left New Zealand in October'last, has been appointed a flight-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service. Mr Allan is a son of Mrs Alex. Allan, of Rockvale, Waikari.

The death is reported of Lord Vernon, who was a guest at the Northern^ Ohib, Auckland, about eighteen months" ago. He wa-s only' 27 years old, and died of dysentery at Gallipoli while m command of liis lXJgimeut, the Derbyshire Yeomanry.

Orders by Colonel Chaffcy include the At the East Takaka Church last "ivlnesday Mr. Walter Thomson, of

■lkapau. who has enlisted for active service, was married to Miss Constance ilosser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rosier, of TJruwhenua, the officiating hrpvman being the Rev F. J. Daynes. The bridesmaids were Misses Violet and Myrtle Rosier (sisters of the bride), d Mr. Arthur Rosser carried out the ies of best man.

A large gathering of insurance men took place at the rooms of the Underwriters' Association, Christchurch, when a presentation of an address in album form was made to Mr. W. Devenish Meares, who is retiring from the management of the Alliance Assurance Company, Ltd.

Messrs. V. Hibiya and S. Kawanashi. from Japan, are at present touring w Zealand, partly for pleasure and ilso with a view to advancing the wool ■le between the Dominion and their own country. The firm which Mr. gate from the Independent Cable SerHibiya represents has already established a depot for wool in Sydney.

Mr. Robert M'Millan, editor of the v-duey "Stock and Station Journal," nil! attend the Press Association's annual meeting at Rotoraa as the dele-

c from the Indepnedent Cable Service. Mr. McMillan is the author of a number of books, and he wrote about New Zealand as the result of a visit in the north some three years ago.

, The news of tho death on Gallipoli Peninsula, of Lance-Corporal Lindsay L. Christie was received with much regret in Alosgiel and the Saddle Hill district (says the "Otago Daily Times"). He was a son of Mr. W. L. Christie, of Saddle Hill, and joined the main body. He was a member of many dubs and societies in Mosgiel and the Taieri, and was a familiar figure at social functions.

following-—Lieu tenants Thomas Brereton and John Gordon McCallum, of. the 10th, (Nelson) Mounted Rifles, to be captains. Major Noel Percy Adams, New Zealand Fiold Artillery,' has bcei granted the temporary rank of lieutem-ant-colnnel vhiie employed on the 'rivaling Staff of the Expeditionary Force Reinforcements.

Tiie Rev. Mother St. Genevieve, who for the past nine- years has been attached to iaie Order of Notre Dame .dcs Missions in Now Zealand as Prioress of the head convent and Novitiate in Christchurch. left on Thursday for Perth, Western Australia, where there are five comrmnities of the Order controlling seven schools, to fill the position of Provincial in that >State. Tho Rev. Mother St. Claudia., lately Prioress of tho Ashburton Convent, has been .appointed !by tho Mother-General in England as Provincial of the Order in Now Zealand.