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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11729, 20 June 1916, Page 5

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Mr T. Prvor arrived from Wellington this momine. Captain W. Hardham, V.C.. arrivW from the north to-day. Major PickerilJ was a passenger 1© the Maori from Wellington to-day. Mr P. de la Cour has been .appointed a member of the Lake Ellesmor© Domain Board. Mr J. H. A. Langley has been appointed a deputy-registrar of marriages, births and'deaths for the AkSfc roa district. Colonel'Chaffey's appointment as Oft cer Commanding the Canterbury Military District has been extended during the period of the war. Colonel T. H. Valintine. Director of Military Hospitals, arrived in Christy , church "from the' south last night and went on to Wellington. The Lyttelton Borough Council last night 'placed on record its appreciation of the services of Corporal Harold Rhind, who has been awarded the D.C.M. At last night's meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council, the Mayor and councillors congratulated Councillor W. Toy on the step he had taken in enlisting' for active service. At the.meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council last night, Councillor W. Dallev on behalf of the council, pre, sented the clork (Mr W. C. Cropp) with a chair on tho occasion of his marriage. : Visitors to Chrbtchurch to-day in- . elude Major Pickenll and Messrs J. H. Jones and J. <te Beer (Dunedm) H\rcher H C. Faulke and \t. A. Midfano (Wellington), F W Dunn (Toronto) and D. Ziman (Reetton). News has been received that Mr Phiiio Carrington, son of Dean Carrincton, of Christchurch, has obtained first-class honours in Theological tripos at Cambridge University, being the only student there this year who has gained this distinction. Mr T. L. Flaus, who had difficulty some time ago in tracing his son, Private E. Flau=;, but who finally located him in an Eneli;h hospital, has just received word from the High Commis-. sioner that he is nt Waltnu-on-Thames, suffering from, shell concussion received ill France. Captain J. B. Davis, who left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, has cabled from London to his father. Maior H. F. Davis. 7.D.. that tho Medical Board has granted him iivo months' leave of absence on account of a wound in his ankle, and that he proposes to tako a trip to Now Zealand. Private advice has been received in Wellintgon that Lieutenant J. Naylor, formerly chief officer of the Komata. who left Wellington early last year for London by the Karamea in order to offer his services to the -Admiralty, has been laid up in England for the last three months with pneumonia, but hopes to rejoin his ship Lieutenant Naylor is well known in Wellington. On arrival in Eneland last year he was posted to H.M.S. Seagull as sub-lieutenant. Ho was lator promoted to lieutenant, and, at the time of beinfr taken ill, was senior navigating officer of a destroyer flotilla.