PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported of VUcount Ridluv, aged 42. He succeeded his father In im.

The Rev. J. Wilkinson, vicar of, fip. som, Auckland, will preach at St. Mary's Church next Sunday morning , , The Queen, pays a London cablegram, unveiled a tablet in memory of MiM* Florence Nightingale in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Word lias been received that Captain C. 11. Weston (of New Plymouth), who is now in Egypt, has been promoted to the rank of major.

Mr. Richard Teece, of Sydney, general manager of the A.M.P. Society, and "Mr. K. W. Lowe, resident secretary in New Zealand, are visiting Npw Plymouth. His Jixcellency the Governor arrived in Christehurch yesterday by the Government steamer Tutanekai. His Excellency will be in residence at Elmwood during his stay in that city. A London cable announces the death of Sir William Turner. K.C.8., Principal of the Edinburgh University, aged 8K years. Amongst many other honor*, deceased received, in August. 1912, the Prussian Order of Merit.

Lady Ellison-Macartney, wife of ihc Governor of Tasmania, accompanied by Miss Macartney and maid, arrived in Wellington by the Moeraki from Sydney on Wednesday. The party leava by tht Taiuui to-morrow for London. Captain H. C. Critchley-Salmonson, of the Royil Munster Fusiliers, who was Adjutant of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, until he was wounded some months ago, is returning to New Zealand as Assistant Infantry Instructor,, as at will not be fit for service for a consider? able time.

According to private advice received in Wellington, the Rev. C C\ Harper, late Archdeacon and Vicar of St. Peter**, Wellington, has been appointed to the rectory of St. Mary's, Newington. South London, which is in the gift of tW Bishop of South wark. An exchange of parishes during Lent lias been arranged between the Kev. A. H. Colvilc and the" Rev. A. R'chardi, vicar of St. Sepulchre"*, Auckland, on the same lines as that arranged two years ago with the Rev. W. E. Gillan£ Mr. Colvile expects to he back in Ne» Plymouth in time for Good Friday and Easter.

The many friends of Lance-Corpora) H. D. Skinner, D.C.M., will bo interested to hear that he has been offered and has accepted a commission in the Army, He was about to rejoin the transport which was to convey him to Egypt, when he was detained in New-Plymouth hf a slight attack of diphtheria. For th| present he will remain in England; where he will be engaged in munition work.

The Rev. Father McMcnauSn, who went with the First New Zealand Ex. peditionary Force to Egypt in 1914, wai a visitor to New Plymouth yesterday. The "padre," as he was termed at flalli. poli, where he was from the lauding to Suvla Bay, had a very anxious time, aud returned to the Dominion very much run down. Father McMenamin visited the parents of some of the New Plymouth boys who are fighting in the Gallipot! peninsula.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, of Patanga Crescent, Wellington, received information that their eldest son, Sergeant Watkin Lewis, of the sth N.Z. Reinforcements, had been reported dead by the Couit of Inquiry at Alexandria. The deceased was stated for some time to have be#» in hospital, but apparently a mistake in identity has been made. A younger brother, Private Tom Lewis, was killed in action on August 10. Another brother, Lieut. S. E. Lewis, is at present in camp at Troutiiam. The late Sergt. Lewis was a married man, aged 49 years, and resided latterly in Wanganui. For several years he lived in New Plymouth, where he was a valued member of St. Mary's choir.