PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Hia Honour Mr. Justice Hosking leaves for Palmerston North this morning to preside at the sittings of the Supreme Coart i here.

News was received in Ohnstchurch on Tuesday that Mr. J. I. Chrystall has been gazetted' lieutenant in the 13th Hussars, and sails immediately from Bombay for the front.

Coadjutor-Archbishop O'Shea, who has had letters from Archbishop Redwood, states that the latter prelate has been touring in Spain, ana was to have reached Rome about the middle of October. Then, all being well, he was thereafter to revisit England and Ireland. Archbishop Redwood!'is enjoying esoeUont he'aith.

Mr. J. B. head of the firm of J. B. Macimven and Co., dairy produce exporters. returned from • a visit to Canaaa yesterday.

News has been received in Wellington 6f the accidental death, of LieutenantBurgeon Ernest John Herbert Webb, of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary; Force: The deceased, who was 33 years of age, was a son of Mr. Herbert v\ ebb, solicitor, of Dunedin, and a brother ot Mr. R. Herbert Webb, solicitor,, of Wellington, of Dr. Webb, of Martinborough, ant of Mr. Webb, accountant, of. Invorcargill. He qualified ™ " year and was appointed medical officer ofthe first Tren&am Camp on which position he earned' the good will respect of, both officers and men. Mr G. Van der Valden* has been appointed to act as Vice-Consul for the Netherlands at Christchurch.

Dental Surgeons Messrs. A. G. Jones, ij H. Straucfion, and E. P. Rishworth have been added to the honorary etaff of the Hospital. Consequent upon the death of the Deputy-Public Trustee (Mr- Georgo Bmyth) at Christchuroh, Mr. s T. D. Kendall, deputy at Dunedin, has beentransferred to Christohurch. Mr. Charles Zachariah, district manager and DeputyOfficial Assignee at Wellington, has i>een promoted to be deputy at Dune'din, and his duties mil be. taken up, for the present at all events, by Sir. K. H. N. Brown, of tho head office staffs . , • • , Messrs. J. W. Collins, Chief the Labour Department, and Wm. il. Hastier, Deputy-Chief Inspector of Factories in Wellington, have been appointed members of-the Workers' Dwellings Board. Dr.' Eric Mafckenzie, son of Dr. Wallace : Mackenzie, has accepted a cornmission as ■ lieutenant in the R-A.M.y., and is-at present stationed at lid•worth Park-, Salisbury H™. where, ho has charge of a section id. tie 39th I leltl 'Ambulance. ; ■' Mr. Arch. D. Nicholson (Presbyterand Pastor C. L. Matthews (Baptist) are gazetted officiating' ministers ■under the . Marriage Act. Mr. and Mrs. George Swan, of Waliganui, have arrived in Australia, on their way back to New Zealand from •England. . ■' . ■ ( ; Mr! Edwin T. Wray, agenoy manager for the Colonial Mutual Life Ofoce, returned from a visit to England by the Manuka on Tuesday. ' ' _ ■ Yesterday was- the 49th- anniversary of the ordination of tho Veil. Archdeacon Thomas Fancourt. Born at Malvern, Worcestershire, England, on the iverv day that the first party of settlers under the auspices of the New Zealand Company landed at Petone (January 22, 1840), he was educated, at Lancing College, Susses, and studied for. the ministry at the famous missionary college of St. Augustine, and. then. went to India, which- country- ho : was obliged to leave owing to his health breaking 'down. In 1865 he came to New Zealand in tho Star of Tasmania: at the • request of .Bishop. Abraham, of Wellington, and from November m that year.until the present time he has beenv continuously engaged in this diocese. TTi.c ordination as a deacon took placß '49 years ago yesterday in St. Paul sProOathedral, which then stood in' the pre- . sent-Parliament House grounds. The ceremony was the last one of the jiuiq in that church, and it ie also worthy of mention that Mr. Fancourt was tho first clerio to'be ordained a priest in the present Pro-Cathedral in.Mulgravo Street in 1867. Bishop Abraham officiated on both occasions. Up-to lb(U the Rev. Mr. Fancourt had charge ot PorirUEf,' Johnsonville, and. Karon. In 1870 he took charge of St. James s Parish; Lower Hutt, and remained there for fourteen years, when he was appointed Diocesan Secretary, a position which ho still retains. „ In 183S he was appointed 'Archdeacon of Wellington. In addition -to being Diocesan Secretary he is exf. amining chaplain to Bishop Sprott, and is also the Bishop's commissary, offices which ho had also filled under Bishop Wallis and' the late .Bishop Hadfield. lArchdeaoon Fancourt, although, 74 years of age, is still hale and hearty. Mr. George Dines; late manager of Messrs. M'Eldowney Bros', fancy, millinery, and mantle department,-has severed his connection with that firm to go into business: on his own account in Courtenay Place. Lieutenant J. S; G. Reid,-R.N., formerly an officer in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, who joined the Royal Navy some months ago as a lieutenant on the supplementary list, is now serving .on H.M.S. Roxburgh, an armoured cruiser, of 10,800 tons attached to" the Third ' Cruiser Squadron Lieutenant Reid's .three brothers are serving in the Army in Belgium, Bays : the Christchurch ■"Press."

: From the Salvation Army marquee nt the Trentham military camp, which is in charge of i Ensign Garner, 6053 letters were posted between October 22 and November 14; tho' attendanco at the meetings; was 6705,. tile total attendances to date being 26,950. On .Wednesday evening the Citadel Band visited the camp, and played a progrmme of music, which was much appreciated. On Saturday evening Major Colledge, of the National Headquarters Staff, who has spent many years in India, will give a lecture on our great dependenoy. As an instance of the military spirit that is pervading the Dominion, the Dresden Piano Company has received orders within tho last week to/ supply tho Now Plymouth Citizens' Band, the Hawera Municipal Band, and the 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles with sets of Hawke's silver-plated band instruments, and the Gisbcrne District School with a set of fifes and drums. At his meeting at Nowtown last night Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh was asked would be, if elected, oppose any legislation introduced to allow the City Council to sell a city endowment of 1400 acres near Fahiatua, valued at £40,000? Ho said he would, as he was opposed to tho selling of such endowments.