PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11254, 7 December 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr E. E. Stark, who was recently appointed electrical engineer _to the Christehurch City Council, began Ins duties to-day. Mr Paul Dufault. the popular tenor vocalist, has settled in New iork as a teacher. He is making a specialty Of the French repertory and diction. A Sydney Press Association message cays that Professor Jack, science master at Dookie College, has been selected to accompany the Shackleton expedition.

i Writing to Mr V. Magee, of Akaroa, Mr E. Sliearwood, who was for some time electrician in charge of tho Akaroa electric light plant, stated that he had joined the No. 2 Expeditionary Force at Home, and was encamped at Bulford camp on Salisbury Plain.

The latest.-issue .of the "Mcrivale Parish Magazine " contains the following list of members of the congregation who aro on their way to the front:—Messrs Gordon Drury, Gerald Holderness, Arthur Harrison, Tabu Rhodes, Noel Symes, Jack Watkins, pnd Justyn Westenra. Mr Isaac Charles Gosset is in tho reinforcement camp at Trenth&m.

News has been received of the death in Sweden of Mr E. O. F. von Reden, for many years identified with local bodies in the Wairarapa, and the first chairman, of the New Zealand Counties' Association. The deceased, who was a native of Hanover, went home about four years ago. When war broke out he proceeded to Sweden. He leaves a widow (a daughter of Mrs James Leech, of Mptueka), but no children.

Mr Mark Jarvis. a well-known resident of Greenmeadows, Hawke's Bay, died on the voyage of the Mamari from London to Wellington. The deceased, who had not been well before lie left Home, took ill just beforo the vessel arrived at Cape Town, and died whilst the Mamari was alongside the wharf, and was buried ashore. Mr Jarvis, who was seventy-five years of Age, was accompanied by his wife and grand-daughter.

An'examination was held in New Zealand in August last for appointments to commissions in the British Regular Army. Of those who passed, three, namely, Messrs H. F. D. Godfray- (of Waipukurau), W. J. Olachan (Wellington), and A. C. Clayton (Auckland), sailed with the Main Expeditionary Force Europe. Advice has now been received that they have been appointed as second lieutenants to the following regiments, each of which is represented at the front:—Mr Godfxay to the Gloucestershire Regiment, Mr Clayton to the Royal Sussex Regiment, and_ Mr Clachan to the Middlesex Regiment. They will accordingly not remain in Egypt with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but will proceed direct to England to join thpir regiments.