PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 209, 29 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-UEGAL. Tho Governor-Geueral (the Earl of Liverpool) and the Countess of Liverpool, who are lo pay a visit to Samoa anil tho Cook group, leaving Wellington by tlio iMoana early next month, will make their first, landing at liarolonga. The Tutanekai (Captain Post) will await them there, and take them round tho islands. Their Excellencies, who will b» accompanied by tile Hon. Dr. Vomers (Minister for the Cook Group) and Mrs. Pomare, Lieutenant Garland, M.C., and Lieutenant Million, A.p.C.'s, and Sir. G. F. Dixon, official reporter, expect to bo absent from Wellington for about six weeks.

. Mr. William Foster, who has been suffering acutely from pleurisy, is reported to bo making a. satisfactory recovery. Ho is still confined to his bed.

Amongst recent, arrivals in Dunedin was tho Kov. F. L. Frcat, C.F., formerly Methodist minster of Abbotsford, who has returned from tho front, and is now on holiday prior to going to his new appointment us superintendent of tho Lyttelton circuit. Mr. Frost left New Zealand in 1910 with the Nineteenth Reinforcements as sergeant with the Tunnelling Corps, and served- for twelve mpnths on .the Arras front. He was subsequently transferred to the infantry, with tho rank of corporal, and was wounded on tho Somnie in August last and sent to Walton-on-Thames. On recovery hd received a chaplaincy in succession to tha late Rev. Alexander Allen, C.F.

Mr. Edwar.d Bartley, architect, aged 81 years, was found dead in bed yesterday morning, states a Press Association message from Auckland. The kite Air. Bartley was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and was educated there. Ho received hie early training from his father, 1 who was an architect and builder. In 1854 he came to New Zealand in the ship Joseph Fletclicr, in company with his'elder brother, Mr. Kobert Bartley. For the past quarter of a century he had devoted his energies exclusively to architecture, designing and supervising the erection of several of Auckland's most handsomo buildings, including the Auckland Savings Bank, the Jewish Synagogue, Opera- House, and other noticeable structures. Other noteworthy specimens of the late gentleman s skill and judgment are several city and suburban churches. Hβ was diocesan architect for the Church of England, aiid was widely exnerienced in church architecture. The lato Mr. Bartley was ore of the first members of the Auckland Choral Society, established in 1855, and for fourteen years was choirmaster of Hie Trinity Church, Devonport, where he had resided for many years. One of his many good works was the establishment of a- boys' workshop (in connection with the district school), where for two nights a week for ten years he gave-instruction. The workshop took a first award at the Industrial Exhibition in Auckland. The late Mr. Bartley was a devoted lover of science, his scientific use of tho microscope having been a hobby for over forty years.

At the annual smoke concert of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club last evening the chairman spoke with devp regret of the loss the club had sustained through the death of Mr. Alec Elton during the influenza epidemic. Commodore Duncan eaid that in the late Mr. Elton his parents had lost/a good son, the club a good member, and the city a good citizen.

\ Press Association message from Dunedin states that the Eev. E. S.vGrny, pastor of the Hanover Street Baptist Church for the last eix years, has resigned in order to assume the positionof Dominion organiser for tUo prohibition campaign. Ilu3 step has been taken at the request of the New Zealand Alliance and the Efficiency League. Tho l!ev. Knowles Kempton, of the Auckland Tabernacle, will succeed Mr. Gray as pastor of the Hanover Street Church. Mr. Edward Charman, who died at the age of seventy at his residence, 10 Hopper Street, Wellington, on May 12, was one of the early English (settlors of •Clinsteluirch, having arrived at Lyttelton in the eailing ship Hereford from London on July li, 1871, after a voyage of three months. After settling in Christohurch for some years, >he came to AVellington, where- he made- his home antt resided till tho time of his death. Mr. Charman was a very old member of tho Order of Druids, having joined the first lodgo formed in Christenurch fiouie forty years ago and lie was well known in tho building trade, having followed the occupation of plasterer for maay years, arid taken part in the completion of many oi tho prominent public buildings in Wellington, as well as other parts of the Dominion. The late Mr. Charman leaves a widow, one daughter (Mrs. Mm), and four' sons—Messrs. George, Mward, Albert, and Harry Charman—all of Wellington. Lieutenant P. 13. Cole, who was badly, wounded in Franco last July, returned to New Zealand by the hospital ship Malieno, a severe cot case. Last week he was removed from the Wellington Hospital to Trentham, where he is making good progress. Lioutpnnnt Cole was amongst the first men that volunteered, and went with the first draft to Samoa, On returning to New Zealand he went away as bandmaster-sergeant of No. 1 Eari of Liverpool's Own Band.