PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12064, 20 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Morritt returned from Wellington thi? moraing.

Mr J. M'Combs returned from the / north to-day. \ Mr G. J. Anderson and Mr R. tScott, M.P-, wero passengers by the ferry steamer Mararoa this morning. The Mayor has received a cable message stating that his son, Lieutenant S. G. Holland, is seriously ill in tho Walton-on-Thames Hospital. Mr L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, is in Christchurch to-day. Ho will leave to-morrow morning for Hokitika. Cable advice has been received by Mr W. Madden, of 26, Alliance Street, Lowar Riccarton, that his son. Private W. J. Madden, who left with the Tenth Reinforcements, was admitted to hospital in France, with fever, on June 17. Dr Weeks, Dean of Nelson, who has been giving addresses to the members of the Christian Union of the Universities of New Zealand, will arrive in Christehurch to-moxi'ow from Dunedin. Dr Weeks will preach at Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, on Sunday night.

Corporal Robert Kennedy, an old Sydenham Rugby player, who represented Canterbury in 1913 and 1914, has been wounded in France, his mother, Mrs M. H. Kennedy, having received a telegram yesterday from tho Defence authorities to that effect. Corporal Kennedy was a back-iankei of , , ye r y great promise. His brother, Mr J Kennedy, is a member of the Merivale Senior fifteen, and also plays in ihe back rank of tho scrum.