PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Calcutta message reports the death of Godhale, the reformer.

The death of Sir Lucas Tooth from heart failure is reported from London.

The death of Mrs Woolcombe, daughter of Mr A. Michie, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is reported to have occurred at Singapore as the result-of an accident.

The Rev. D. Button, of Caversham, Dunedin, has been appointed resident Presbyterian chaplain to the camp at Treutham. He will enter upon his duties there on March 6, from which date the Presbyterian Institute at the camp will be under his direction.

Dr. John Bell, Medical Inspector of Schools, died suddenlyy on Saturday while he was spending a holiday at Dunedin. The late Dr. Bell practised at Arrowtowa for man yyears. In his younger days lie was a noted interprovincial Rugby half-back, having played against Stoddart’s team.

Commissioner and Mrs Hodder will receive a citizens’ reception at the Salvation Army Hall on Thursday next, at 8 p.m. The Commissioner and Mrs Hodder were until recently in charge of the Salvation Army work in Japan, and have just been appointed by General Bramwell Booth to take command of the Army work iu New Zealand.

Captain A. Martin, of the Medical Corps, a New Zealander, who is mentioned in General French’s despatches, is Dr. A. A. Martin, late of Palmerston North. He is a son of Mr Thomas Martin, of Lumsden, formerly of the Railway Department, and a brother of Mr T. Martin, manager for Wright and Stephenson’s Christchurch branch, who is now in Java in connection with the Wismar’s cargo. Captain Martin is a native of Lumsden, Southland.—Press Association.

To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of the Hon. Captain Baillie, M.L.C. (states the Press Association agent at Wellintgon). He received a letter from the late Lord Roberts, dated October 31, in which the FieldMarshall .said; “We are living in interesting times, and the future of the British Empire will depend a great deal on the manner in which two or three'great questions are settled. The Army and Navy must be much stronger. If an Expeditionary Force has to go abroad on account of trouble in India or Egypt or any Oversea Dominions’, we should be helpless in this country. The country seems to be gradually waking up to the danger we are in.”

The Rev. A. D. Tupper-Carey, Canon of New York, who has been ed commissary to the Bisho pof Wellington, has been Canon Residentiary of New York since 1910. He became a deacon in 1890 and priest in 1892. He was curate at Leeds Parish «Church from 1890 to 1898, head of Christ Church, 01 ford Mission, Poplar, from 1898 to 1901, the rector of Lowestoft until 1910. The Rev. Mr TupperCarey succeeds the late Canon John Still (at one time Vicar of St. Paul’s, Wellington),- as one of the Bishop of Wellintgou’s four commissaries'or rerepresentatives in the Old Country. Tho other commissaries are the Rev. Richard Seaver, 8.D., Vicar of St. John’s, Belfast; the Rev. Harold Anson. Rector of Birch, Manchester (formerly Vicar of Hawera) ; and the Rev. W, E. Barnes, 8.D., Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.