PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14138, 14 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

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Rev. E, A. Parker, Vicar of Reef ton having resigned, the Board of Nomination will be called to meet next week to consider the vacancj\

Major Ward, who has been spending a short holiday in Nelson, returns to the West Coast to-day.

The Standing Committee of the diocese of Nelson met yesterday, and elected Archdeacon Kempthorne and Mr C. W. Brown, of Stoke, as representatives from this diocese to the Standino- Committee of the General Synod. This committee is called to meet at Wellington on August 9th. It is a new body, and the a-bovo-named gentlemea will hold office on it till the next General Synod. **"■

Captain J. A. Wallingford, who so distinguished himself with the rifle at Gallipoli, is on &< brief visit to this district on Defence business, and is staying at the Masonic Hotel.

Mrs E. M. Perrin, an old resident of this district, died suddenly yesterday at Stoke. Her husband predeceased her by a number of years. She leaves a grown-up- family.

Mr. J. H. Esoott, M.P., who has been seriously ill at tho incidence of his brother-in-law, Aurora-terrace, Wellington, was^ this week taken to a private hospital to undergo an operation.

Mr James Caradus, who had been for twenty-three years proof-reader on the Dunedin "Evening Star," is dead. He served his apprenticeship as a compositor in Auckland, and joined the mechanical staff of the "New Zealand Herald" soon after that paper started. He first went to Dunedin to take a frame on the "Guardian" with Mr. William Jennings, now M.P. for Taumarunui. _ Mr. Caradus was well known outside his business as a member of the old Dunedin Trades and Labour Council, a justice of the peace, an official visitor at Seaeliff Mental Hospital, president of the Zingari-Richmond Football Club, a a ember of the High Street bckool Committee, and president of the Mormngton Cricket Club. One of his sons is David Caradus, a well-known Rugby footballer.