PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Surgeon Harold Denham, son of the Queensland Premier, was aboard the H.M.S. Lark in the North Sea fight, states a London cablegram.

Major Burlinson, manager of the Weraroa Training Farm, has just re " ceived word that his third son, who is with the British in France, has been seriously wounded. Two of Major Burlinson's sons have already been killed on active service.

A private cablegram has been received in Christchurch announcing the safe arrival in England of Or. Hugh Acland. who has been appointed, with the rank of major, to the stationary hospital which is to be established in the field wherever the New Zealand Expeditionary Force may be.

Captain T. H. Chudleigh. R.N.R., has been appointed to succeed the late Captain E. J. Evans as Marine Superintendent for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. in Wellington (says a Press Association telegram). Captain Chudleigh, who has been in command of the liner Pakeha, left that vessel on Saturday, and she proceeded on her voyage to London under the chief officer, Captain S. Kelly.

The Rev. 1. A. Bernstein, the wellknown minister of the Christchurch Jewish congregation, has resigned his charge and is leaving for Sydney <;?> Wednesday next, says a Press Association telegram. Mr Bernstein, who holds the position of chaplain in the Xew Zealand forces, offered the Australian Government his services as chaplain to the Jewish members of the expeditionary forces, and his offer was accepted. His resignation from his charge followed, and the congregation decided to release him to enable him to carry out his intention.

Xews of the sudden death of Dr. J. P. Cameron, the resident medical officer on the island of Xiue, in the Cook group, show that his death occurred some weeks before the arrival of the Kererii from Auckland. The late Dr.

Cameron was formerly practising at Stratford, and was appointed to the position by the Government in September last. As he was the only doctor on the island, the cause of his death is not known. He complained of a slight illness for a feu days, but was on duty at the dispensary a few bonis before his death occurred. It is understood that he suffered from an internal complaint. Dr. Cameron was a graduate of Aberdeen Pnivcrsity. Mrs Cameron was a passenger from Xiue by the Kereru.

Among the many curious AngloGerman relationships brought to lipht by the war, none is more remarkable than that which involves a .New Zealand family. It has been ascertained that Mr, Wilfrid Stapleton Bretherton, of the Royal Fusiliers— who is a cousin of Mr. A. C. Bretherton, of the Public' Trust Of-

fice, Dunedin—is wounded and a prisoner in Germany. There is irony in the fact that his brother-in-law is Count Gehhard Blueher von Wahlstadt, eldest son and heir of Prince Blueher, who married Miss Evelyn Stapleton-Bretherton. eldest sister of the wounded prisoner of war. Mr. A. C. Bretherton is son-in-law of Mr .). Liddell Kelly, of Devonport, Auckland.