LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Secretaries for the Motor Ambulance Fund acknowledges with thanks a donation of £1 Is from the Westland Rugby Football sub-union. The following new books have been received at the Public Library: 1131. S Anonymous (Taffrail); The Searchers iJohn Foster); The Secret Witness (George Gibbs) ; On Swan Rivei (Hulbert Footner); The Human Touch (Sapper); All for a Scrap of Paper (Joseph Hocking); Bernard Treves’s Boots (Laurence Clarke); The City of Masks (George Barr McCutcheon); Simon ij. Stoerer); The Preventive Man (G. V. MeFadden); David Vnlorv (Francis Sviule) ; Pandora’s Young Men (Frederick Watson) ; The Audacious Adventures of Mile McConaugliy (Howden Smith) ; Tlie Honour of the Clintons (Archibald Marshall); The Fortieth Door (Mary Hasting Bradley); The Sword Maker (Robert Barr); The Natural Law (Charles Collins).

The Rev. E. Eliot Chambers, Vicar of St. Saviours, Lyttelton, who had been in had health for some time recently, entered Lewisham Hospital on May 5. He died there on Wednesday morning. He was a son of the Rev. J. Chambers, Vicar of Cary, Cornwall, and was born there in 1850. He entered the Navy in 1803, and retired in 1870 with the rank of lieutenant. In 1872, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, which he left in 1875 as Associate of Arts. Mr Chambers arrived in New Zealand in 1881, and Was appointed to the charge of Ross (Westland) then the centre of mining activities, for a brief period. In the same year to 1885, Mr Chambers was vicar at Rakaia He left there to take the position of chaplain to the seamen at Lyttelton He was also appointed vicar of St Saviour’s Lyttelton, and lived in Lyttelton from 1885 until the present time. Deceased joined the volunteer force, lieeame honorary chaplain to the N. Battery, and retained that position for many years, earning the long-service medal. For some years he was ole chaplain to the Permanent Artillery in the South Island, and act-ing-chaplain to the Royal Navy.