PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2381, 10 February 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. William Crichton, architect, who has been on a trip to England, was a passenger by the Manuka from Svduey yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Crichton. Tho Rev. J.' Kennedy Elliott has been officially notified that the Theological Faculty of Ireland has conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The .only other holders of this distinction in this country are Dr. Rutherford Waddell, of Dunedin, and Dr. Erwin, of Christchurch. Mr. Hugh' Campbell, of Havelock 'North, was yesterday elected chairman of the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board, vice the Hon J. D. Ormond, resigned. The Rev. Father Ormond, of St. aPtrick's Cathedral parish, Auckland, has been appointed to the staff of the Most Rev. Archbishop Ceretti, who was recently appointed Papal delegate for Australasia. Father Ormond,-who will act, as secretary to the Delegation, will leave for Sydney next week. Major J. 13. M'Clymoht, 14th (South Otago) Regiment,; of. tho Otago Battalion of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force, returned from Egypt by the Manuka which arrived from Sydney yesterday. > Mr. A. R. Duggan, for over thirty years in the employment of the Bank of Australasia, at Wellington, has just died in the General.' Hospital. Mr. Duggan is survived by a widow and a family of seven. His eldest son is a school teacher at Waipawa. At I 'the annual meeting of the Napier Gas Company, tho retiring directors, Messrs. E. W. Kiiowles and A. D. Brown, were re-elected. Mr. J. G. Duncan, of Messrs. Levin and Co., returned to Wellington from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. The Rev. W. Slade, of Dunedin, was a passenger by the Manuka from Sydney yesterday. Veil. Archdeacon Cassells, Anglican'minister at St. Mary's Hawera, died on Monday afternoon, aged 47 years. The deceased early in January suffered a serious : nervous breakdown, from which he never rallied Mr. H. Munro, of Eltham, who. served m the South African forces during the Boer war, has been offered, and .has accepted, a commission in the Union forces for service in German SouthWest Africa. Mr. Munro expects to leave for Swakopmund in about a month's time. Mr. F. L. Gordon, of Clive, Grange, left Hastings yesterday morning en route for England. BetectiveJ-Sergeant Kemp, who has been stationed in Napier for the' last 18 months, has received notice of his transfer to the Central Police Station. Dunedin. Mr. Joseph Bennett, well known in writing circles, and formerly associated with the Auckland Stud Company, is dead, states' a Press Association message from Sydney. Mr. W. Lyons, Otaki representative of Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., has been accepted for service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces.