PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3197, 22 September 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. H. P. Murray-Aynsley, a very well kuown medical man in Chnstchureh some years ago, died yesterday, aped 57 years (says a Press Association telegram fromChristchurch).. A few months ago he returned from Scotland, -where he had been practising for- many., years. The Nelson Presbytery; has nominated tiie-K-ev. yt. Gray Dison.-M.A...as Moderator of' General Assembly for 1918. '' ■ A private cablegram" received this; week from Mesopotamia anaowces that Captain Donald M. :Wileon, 8.A.M.b.. has been awarded the Military Cross. Cap; tain Wilson s the third son oi Mr. George Wilson, Wellington and is due to arrive in Nw Zealand shortly, alte Hiree years , continuous active semco in 'ranee 7 and Mesopotamia. Captain Weon's wifo came out to Sydney recent ly from Scotland in expectation of liis "driver Norman Leslie Knight, of the attillerr, tilled in action, vas the only son of Mr. J- Knight, of Kpsoni, and late 6f Woodside, Hamilton. He -ym i torn at Palmerston North, and edncaed at Hamilton and St. John's Collegiate. Schooll Onehuuga. . After leaving ■ school hn «•« two vears in the Bank ot. AustK bJ\ on, afterwards taking up 1 he p and cattle stotion at. Whangarm, where he remained until he enlisted in May 1916. He was 27 years of age. • The Rev Howard Elliott, national lecturer of the P. otestant Political Association" will arrive this morning from LytteOue'of the early «lto[\ o£j£0£j£ ££ linrt Mrs G Haymes, died at tne ieni fence rf he, son, W f r Taran»k, Mree .. Haymes leaves one son, eleven grandclindren, and twelve great-grandchildren. She took a great interest in the.soldiers, her Ser yea» being spent in knitting sea-n-es, mittens and girdles for the boys at the front. Tl.fff nnaral took in Karon Cemetery, the Eev. J. G. Chapman officiating, assisted by the Rev. 1. -N'. Griffin. Jlr John Fnrrell arrived from Auckland 'vesterdny to complete arangements for th'e season of Miss Ada Reeve,' whioli begins on Monday,'Odto'ber'l. "