PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16883, 2 August 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Rev. H. Daniel, who for the past eighteen months has been abroad as Field Secretary for the Y.M.C.A., arrived in Timaru yesterday. The Hon George Fowlds will contest the Grey Lynn scat at the general" election in opposition to the sitting' member Mr John Payne. Nurse Mabel Blalchwayt has passed her final and State examinations at the Ohristchwch. Hospital. The R«v. Henry Bull, a welt known ' Methodist Minister, died at Christchurch last evening, aged 76. Ho entered the Methodist Ministry in 1868, and had been in charge of some of the 7nost important circuits of the Methodist Church in New Zealand, and in 1886 he was elected President of the New Zealand Methodist. Conference. He , retired from active service in the church in 1911.—(Press Assooiation.) .Mr Leo D. Chateau, who is cbiitrblr ling Captain Bruce Bairn&father's famous picture play "The Better 'Olo" in New Zealand, arrived from Wellington yesterday ,to.make arrangements for the ■ local screening at the Theatre Royal, commencing on Saturday nest. The Very. Rev. Dean Holley, S.M., "Wellington, has received news of the death at Townsville, Queensland, of the Rev. Father James Taylor, - S.M.; ■ Supervisor of the Marist Missionary | Fathers. Father Taylor was but fortyfour years of age, and was a native of . Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. After prelimin- I ary studies under the late Father I Yardin, S.M., at Meeanee, Father Taylor studied at St. Patrick's Col-! lege and afterwards in Italy and I France. His earlier appointments I were to Dundalk. Ire?land and Salt Lake City. He was then sent to New Zealand, w r here he was appointed to the teaching staff of St. Patrick's College. Later he was appointed to parochial work, and served as curate in the parish of Timaru and Greymouthi till he v.as finally made parish priest of Leestori. ' For a number of years past he had been giving missions vti New Zealand, iu , New South Wales, and Queensland wiith i great success.