PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 18 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Captain B. M. Aldwell, of the Wei lington-Lyttelton ferry steamer Wahine, leaves for Sydney on Friday’s steamer to take command of the Marama, in the ’Frisco service. Mr W. H. Hawkins, of Tatarairaako, who has offered his services a* an officer in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, has passed the medical examination, and is awaiting orders to proceed to Trentham. Lieutenant Cyril Edmund Parker, who was the first Canadian killed in action at the front in Europe, was 30 years of age, and was the eldest son of the Hon. Edmund Parker, at one time general manager for Messrs Dalgety an Co. in Christchurch. Sir Henry Howard, who has been appointed British Ambassador Extraordinary at the Vatican, is the first representative Great Britain has sent to the Papal Court in 400 years, and the English Protestant Alliance has lodged a protest with the Government against this reversal of policy. Sir Henry Howard has been an attache in the diplomatic service since 1860, and has held positions of unusual honour and power. He has served in the United States, the Netherlands, Guatemala, Greece, Denmark, China, Russia, and France. During the period 1896 to 1908 he was British Minister at the Hague and Luxemburg. A brass tablet iu memory of Lieut.Colonel W. R. Bloomfield, who perished, with his wife and daughter, in the wreck of the Empress of Ireland, was unveiled last Sunday morning in Sft. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland. The tablet bad been subscribed for by members of the Auckland Garrison Officers’ Club, about thirty of whom were present at the service, and the unveiling ceremony was performed by the president (Major J. P. Stephenson), who also handed over the memorial to the safe-keeping of the churchwardens and vestry of the cathedral. Dr, Averili, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, said the dedicatory prayers, and afterwards preached the sermon. The death is recorded of Mr Walter Crane, the eminent decorative painter and writer. Mr Crane was born in Liverpool in 1845. He was a most distinguished painter, decorator, designer. book-illustrator, and writer. Ha was. by his own confession, mostly 'self-taught. He exhibited at the-Roy-al Academy at the age of sixteen; and his life has been a series of artistic triumphs. His many published books include those invaluable manuals “Line and Form,” “The Bases of Design,” and “The Decorative Illustration oi Books.”