PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 83, 2 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

'I'lie death occurred yesterday in Kaikoura of the Rev. Father Morris. Tho deceased priest was educated in tlio Maymonth College, Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand about five years ago. Ho lias never enjoyed good health, and his death at tho early age of thirty years was not altogether unexpected.

Defcctiye-.Sergeaiit. Ward, who has been stationed at Napier for a number of years, has been promoted to fill fho position of chief detective, recenlly vacated by Mr. Boddam. Mr. T. Hallinger, president of tho Wellington Bowling Club, is indisposed, and confined to his house. * The death of Mr. Francis Seobell.'a member of tho "Diggers'" Divisional Concert Party, occurred nt Wellington Hospital on Wednesday after a cevero operation. Tho deceased, who formerly belonged to Plympton, Devon, England, served in'the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Being nit able reciter no soon became known in the New Zealand Division, and delighted many thousands of New Zealand soldiers as a member of the Concert Party, within tho sound of the guns at tho front. Mr. John Prouse, of Wellington, will leave for Auckland on Monday next in order to sing in "The Messiah" in conjunction with the Verbrugghen Orchestra. Police-Sergeant Michael Murphy, for many .veal's a well-known figuro on luo Wellington wharves, is retiring on pension nt the end of tlio month, no has been in ill-health for over a year. Mr. ,1. C- Mandahl, a native of Norway, who had been in business in FeiUling for tlio past 2G years, has died nt tho ago of 80. He "arrived iu Napier in tho first Norwegian vessel which traded to New Zealand. Mr. W. C. Davies, M.A., at present headmaster of the Grey town District High School, has been appointed headmaster of tho Blenheim Borough School, and will tako up his duties on February 3.