PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 15, 4 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Tho death of Captain Archibald Currie, ship-owner, and president of the -Marine Board of Victoria is announced from Victoria.

Mr Herbert Booth, youngest son of the late General Booth, will visit Nevr Zealand next year to conduct evangelistic meetings.

The Rev. John Mackenzie, M.A., of St. Andrew's, Christchurch, has received a call to Toorak, Melbourne, the most fashionable Presbyterian Church in Australia. Toorak is Melbourne's wealthiest and most beautiful suburb, and the seat of Government House. It is understood that the call will be accepted. Another call ia from Edendale, Mataura, to the Rev. John Pringle, M.A., of Kirwee. Both calls will be considered at the meeting of the Presbytery on September 9th.

Mr J. J. Brittain, the new ConsulGeneral for New Zealand, vice Mr W. J. Prickett, who has retired from the service, is, -like many other American Consuls, a journalist, and was formerly editor tho Echo, published in Eastern Ohio. He was also a member of the Ohio House of Representatives for four years, previous to entering the Consular service in 1898, and was then successively Consul-General at Nantes in France, Strasbourg in Germany, Prague in Bohemia, and Coburg, also in Germany, where he was last stationed.