PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2759, 1 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tiie Most "Rev. the Primate has appointed the Rev. J. Delacourt Russell to Be Archdeacon of Oamaru, in . succession to the Ven. Archdeacon Wood.thorpe, who lias been transferred to the Archdeaconry of Quecnstown, rendered vacant by the transfer of the Veil.' Archdeacon Richards to the Archdeaconry of Invercai'gill. The Ven. Archdeacon Russell'is well known to churchmen in tho Dominion as tlio general secretary of tho Church of England Men's Society. He has been Vicar of Uamaru for nearly five years, and before then was Vicar of Petone for about fourteen years. > He had previously been at Opotiki for two years and a half, and at Bulls for four years."

The following will bo the Wellington representatives at the* General Synod of the Church of England, to be held at Christchurch this week:—His Lordsliip Bishop Sprott, • Archdeacon- H. Reeve, Archdeacon A; F. lunes-Jones, Rev. A. M. Johnson, Messrs. W. J. Birch and R. Wilberfoss. Messrs. John Martin and T. F. Martin having resigned, their successors will be appointed to-day.

Captain Donald Simson, president of tlie Returned Soldiers' Association, has been called upon to report at camp today, and to take up duties with the second draft of the Twelfth Reinforcements..

Mr. John Mackay, late Government Printer, will leave on a trip t-o the Old Country this month.

The death occurred yesterday, at his residence, 9 Patanga Crescent, of a greatly .esteemed colonist, in the person of Mr. William Lewis, aged 78 years. Deceased, who was bora in North Wales, was apprenticed, to tho drapery business, and at the' : age of twenty-one proceeded to London, where lie' was connected with the wholesale trade for many years. In 1879 lie left with. his wife and family for New Zealand in the sailing ship Maraval. After living in Wanganui for five years, he settled in tho Forty-Mile Bush, and was in business there until twelve years ago, .when he came to Wellington, and had, resided- here since. The late Mr. Lewis's first and fifth sons were killed on August . 9 last at Gallipoli. ' He leaves a widow and .four sons and four daughters—Messrs. Percy Lewis (ICimbolton), Edward (Wellington), Lieut. S. E. (in camp with tho 136h Reinforcements), and Llewellyn (Wellington); Mrs. J. Mercer (Rotorua), Mrs. J. H. . Harris (Redclift's, Taradale), Miss Lewis (Wellington), and Miss Ethelwyn Lewis (Wanganui). Mr: and Mrs. Lewis, celebrated their golden wedding last year.

At the biennial movable conferencc of tlie New Zealand branch of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, just concluded at Greymouth, Mr.' I. Salek was elected Grand Master for the ensuing two years. i

■Mr. Les. Campbell) who is well known in connection with League football, intends leaving shortly for the Old Country, where lie will join the motor transport. He will be ' accompanied by Mr. V. Abbott, of Pahautatiui.

The funeral of tlie late Mr. Henry James' Chapman, who died as ,the result of a railway accident near Petonc, took place yesterday afternoon, four of deceased's fellow-workers acting as pallbearers. The Rev. Wilson, of Khandallali, officiated at the graveside. The chief mourners were Messrs. T. J. Chapman, accountant at the Bristol Piano Co.; C. E. G. Chapman, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, Auckland; and S. Chapman, Wellington, all brothers of the deceased. A few months ago deceased enlisted in the Expeditionary Force? and after having been, in training at ( Trentliam for a fortnight, was discharged on account of having trouble with his left foot. Strange to say, this was the foot which was crushed in the accident and subsequently amputated. His only other brother, Signaller R. R. Chapman, D.C.M. (13th Battalion Australian Imperial Force), is at present in England recovering from wounds received at Gallipoli in August last.

Mr. Denniston Cuthbertson, secretary of the Southland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Has eiiTisted, and has been accepted. .Afr ' fSif.hhnvfenn evrnvfc \fr» rrn .