PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The dea,th of the Right Rev. William George Peel, Bishop* of Mombasa, British East Africa, sine* 1899, is aa> riou'nced by a Press Association cable from London. His drjath recalls the Kikuyu dispute of two years ago.

Surgeon-Captain Bett, who returned to New Zealand in the hospital shin Maheno, has been spending a few days' Jeave/in Nelson. He 'leaves' Nelson tor Ohnstchurch this morning.

A private cable message -has been received in .Ohristchurch stating that Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes arrived at Fremantle on Thursday, and that he is well alter his recent attack of illness.

Signor H. Moschini, of Wellington who is coming to Nelson at his own expenso to assist the Nelson Concert Orchestra on Easter Sunday night is deputy conductor and sec rotary ° o f'tt o Wellington Professional Orchestra. He is recognised as the finest clarionet player in New Zealand.

A Press Association cable from Melbourne annoxinces the death of Thomas Horan, the cricketer. Horan was prominent as a member of "the Australian elevens of the 'eighties. His contributions to the "Australasian" under th© Jiom de.plume of "Felix" were a popular feature of that journal.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that Dr. Buck, whq went to the front as a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps, Ins taken a combatant commission as second in command of tho Maori Contingent. Tho officer commanding the Maoris is Major King, of the New Zealand Staff Coips.

The "Masseydonion Stretcher." the official organ of the No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, published at Salonika, states that "the sudden death of Sergeant-cook F. G. Benfiold cast a heavy gloom over our unit. 'Bennie,' as he was always called, was loved by all, and his death leaves a blink which cannot be filled. He leaves a wife and two little boys, to whom we extend our deepest sympathy." Private letters received from' movnbers of the'unit also make reference in feeling terms to the demise of Sergeant-Ccok Bcnfield, whose cheery disposition endeared him to all. Sergeant-Cook Benfield was at one tim© licensee of the Black Horse Hotel at Suburban North.;