PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2212, 27 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon, W. H. Herries, who is Buffering from ah attack of quinsy, will probably be absent from his office and from the House of Representatives for tho whole of this week. Sir James Mills, K.C.M.G., chairman of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has been appointed a Director of tho London Board of tho Bank of New Zealand, in succession to tho late Mr. R. H. Glyn. Information has been received in Oamaru that among the victims in the Empress of Ireland disaster "was Lieutenant Roger Williams, the second offi-. cer, who was a cousin of Mrs.-T. Meek and Mr. I. Hurst,-of Oamaru. Lieutenant Williams, who had just received a commission' in~the Royal Navy Reserve, was thirty years of age. . From Napier a Press Association telegram records the death of the Rev. Dr. Sidey, aged 87. Deceased was for many years minister, in charge of the Napier Presbyterian Church, and clerk to the Hawke's Bay Presbytery. He was treasurer and also moderator of the old Northern Presbytery'of Now Zealand. Tho deceased gentleman was a man of considerable scholastic attainments. . Mr. Charles Adair, of Gisboirne, is a visitor to Wellington. .-.■'■" The Rev. W. Paine, curate of ,St.' Peter's'.Church, Willis Street, has been appointed to All Saints' Church, Foxton, in succession to the Rev; W. J.-H Woodward, now vicar of Karori. Mr. A. D. Kayo, late of'the Besses o' the. Barn. Band, has Been appointed conductor of the Invercargill Dominion Band.. ■ * The-Rev. j'.'C. Small, who willprobably take up ; his duties at St. Mary's, Mornington, on September 1 (says the Dunedin "Star"), will be .succeeded <it Milton by the Rev. James Morland, vicar of Riverton. Tho Rev. W. T. Drake, at present curate in the parish of Dunstan, has been appointed vicar of tlie''parochial district of Maniototo. Mr! A.' D. Thomson, Assistant Public Service Commissioner, is at present in' Auckland. .'..-• Mr. H.: Fildes, senior clerk at the Dunedin,.Chief Post Office for the past ,six,months, will leave for Wellington to-morrow, to which office he has been retransferred. The vacancy will bo filled by the promotion of Mr. L. Anderispn,.,of Savings•Bankj.staff. Mr. Broadbentr who* has "been'promoted to assistant clerk in'charge of letter-car-riers, Wellington, will leave for the northern city on Thursday. _Mrs. Sarah; Sanders, a very,old identity of Auckland, passed away at the residence of her son, Mr. C. D. Sand-' ers, of Thames, on Friday. Mrs. Sanders; who. was 88 years of age, was tho widow of the late Mr. Thomas Sanders, of Auckland and Ta'uranga, who, in the early days was clork of the Court and war correspondent to the "Now Zea-. land Herald", and Cross" during the Maori war in.Tauranga. ~ Mr. _ Sydney Cheesbroughj well known ,iij business circles.in New Zealand, especially iii the motor and cyc|e trade—he : was New Zealand representative of the Henisley and Co. Proprietary, Ltd.—died in Christchurch on Friday last., Mr. Cheesbrough, who was 31 years of age, and unmarried, came out from England about six years ago, subsequently'bringing out his mother. He was' connected, for somo time with the Motor Import Company before joining' his last employ. Fourteen months ago he was stricken with an internal .trouble, and : had been confined to his bed ever since. Mr. Cheesbrough's only relative in New Zealand was his mother, to whom he was much attached, and who is' now quite alone. . He'was held in high Aspect by all who .knew him. The many friends of Mr. David Lang, of Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., who has been suffering from illness, will regret that ho has had a relapse. Drs. Faulkner and Robertson are in attendance. '■'' ■.','■,