PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major Sir Robert Walker and Lady SValker have left Auckland on their i'eturn' to England. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that private advii Vaa received last night that the Rev. ( S. Bryan Brown, Anglican chaplain 1 the Now Zealand Forces, was killed i bction last Thursday. Mr. Brown, pric to his departure for the front, was cha] lain of Christ's College. Hβ'was a splei did athlete and represented Canterbur in the cricket field. He was also pr< ininent in hockey circles. He graduate tot*-' Cambridge and was master at Loi etto-School, Musselburgh, before comin cut to Christ's College. A Press Association cablegram fro) Sydney records the "death of Mr. G. i Quill, a well-known Shipping manager. The 'Rev. J. M'Caw, of Lower Hut , lias received a cablegram informing , hit " that hie son. Sergeant William M'Cav M.'M., has been sent from the front t Cambridge, where he is to receive a fou months' course for a commission. Sei feant M'Caw was on the staff of th fpp'er Hutt Public School when the wa commenced, and he ha? 6ince served a ■ Samoa, Gallipoli, and lias gone throug the whole of the campaign in France. '. A private cable message received ii Christchurch states that Lieutenant Eri A. H. Whitcoinbo has been rather eeri ouely wounded in the recent fighting n Flanders. Lieutenant Whitcombe ia tin fourth son of the late Mr. G. H. Whit combe, managing director of Whitcombi and Tombs, and was at Home at thi London office of the firm when the wai broke out. He enlisted at once, and hai '■ seen a, good ■ deal of 6ervice both ir Franco and Salonika, in the Royal Fiek Artillery.; About a year ago he was in valided home from Salonika, but soon recovered. He had been in Franco abonl three months prior to receiving his .vound. ■ Advictf lias been received in Wellington that. Lieutenant Harold Dawson, ol , (ho Royal Flying Corps, was killed in ' action on October i. Prior to joining the K.F.C., Lieutenant Dawson was motor 'dispatch rider in France, having lett New Zealand with the Twelfth Reinforcements. He was the younger eon of Mr. W. T. Dawson, of Christchurch, and nephew of Mrs. J. Aston, of Karori Road. This is the third loss sustained by Mrs. Eton's family, a brother being killed at the Dardanelles, and a son at the Battle of Flers. The late Lieutenant Dawson's elder brother is now at the front. The presentation of a camera to Lieutenant H. T. Marshall, who was for several years president' of the Karori Rifle Club, was mnde at a meeting of members of the club on Tuesday night. Mr. W. Judd, the president, in making: the presentation, spoke of tho great interest Lieutenant Marshall had taken in the club's affairs, and wished him a eafo return from tho front. Amongst those present wero Mr. ,T. F. Mills, a vice-presi-dent of the club, and' Mr. F.J. Lissington, vice-patron. Our Featlerston correspondent reports that at a meeting of tho Borough Council held on Wednesday night a mayoral chair was presented to tho Miyror (Mr. ■T. W. Card) in honour of the inauguration of tho borough. The DeputyMayor (Mr. M..8. Tait) made the presentation, following a complimentary 'speech'. ■ . . . . The Rev. Alfred North, who is r<ow in his forty-ninth year of active work as a Baptist minister, will shortly retiro from the ministry. Mr. North, who .was born in London in 1546, entered his first pastorato at the ago of twenty-three, and .five years later was appointed to a church in Birmingham. In 1J582 be came to New Zealand to tako tho pastorato at Hanover Street Church, at Duno.lin, remaining there for eightoea years. Two years were afterwards spent ,at Calcutta, s during which lime ho visited tho Baptist Mission stations at Tipparali. Upon his return to New Zealand, he became pastor of the Ponsonby Church, and was . afterwards. engaged for three years as organiser for the New Zealand Baptist Union and Missionary Society. Mr. North assisted to draft the constitution of the New Zealand Baptist Union in ISS2, and three years later was krgely responsible for tho formation .of the Missionary Society. " He lins twice been president of the Now Zealand Baptist Union, and was ,:.at one time "editor of j ; the "New Zealand Baptist."'. His present pastoral charge is at Ftpsom, which lie is about to relinquish. '