PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 68, 20 July 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

.Miss Noin 1 1 Malone. xvlio went Homo in April last, is now engaged in lied Cross work. « ■-T«"Pr ".-I" Tspv>- r The death occurred last week of Mr James Trent, formerly a wellknown business man of I'llristclinrcli, at the age of dI.

Mr H. (!. Stringer, at present setretary of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, has been appointed manager of the Oroua Freezing Company there, and will take up his duties in November.

The Auckland •’University College Council decided yesterday to appoint Mr J. P. Crossmaun. M.A., to the chair of history and economy, which was recently created, at a salary of £70(1 per annum.

The Rev. Father F. Bartley, S.M.. M.A., of the Faculty of St. Patrick’s College, who Inis lately returned from a trip to Australia, has been transferred to Nelson. Father Hartley is well-known at Wellington, having been on tho professional staff of the college For some If years.

The election of officers of the Catholic Federation for the year 191510 resulted as follows:—President. Archbishop Redwood ; vice-presidents. Rev. Father Hurley, Mr J. Duggan ; treasurer, Mr B. Kllis (re-elected); secretary, Mr W. F. Johnson (re-elec-ted); executive, committee, Messrs Corry,' Sievers, Major Halpin, Walsh and Sassie; delegates to Dominion Council, Very Rev. Dean Power, Miff. Duggan and Mr W. F. Johnson.

The engagement lias been announced of Miss Mary Mackenzie, younger daughter of the High Commissioner for New Ze.aland, and Mrs Mackenzie, to Lieutenant Montague R. Chidson, of the Royal Flying Corps, and Royal Garrison Artillery, only son of Mr and Mrs Henry Chidson, of Plantol. Kent, and Snckville Street, Piccadilly. London. Lieutenant Chidson is at present a prisoner’ of war in Germany.

Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps,” lias returned to the Congregational pastorate—has resumed, in fact, the ministry of the Central Church at Topeka, Kansas, which he resigned some years ago to engage in national religious work. Dr. Sheldon has made an interesting bargain with his old church. He is to he its pastor from October 1 to June 1 each year, and he wholly free all the summer for his larger ministry up and down the United States. An associate pastbr has been engaged to conduct the evening services and carry on the ministry of the church in Dr. Sheldon’s ab : sences. ,

President Woodrow Wilson is a convinced missionary enthusiast, and he has been addressing the Potomac Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church at Washington on the future of China when Christianised. Could there b« anything, he said, more tremendous than this vir ion of that great sleeping nation suddenly cried awake by the voice of Christ, and could there be any greater contribution to*the future momentum of the moral forces of the world than could be made by quickening this force which is being set afoot in China? China is at present inchoate ; as a nation it is a congeries of parts. Should we not see that the parts are fructified by the teachings of Christ ?

-Mr Victor Grayson, the English •Socialist, who is visiting Sydney. considers that conscription in England is inevitable. According to the cables, he says that our danger has arisen from political mismanagement, and he hopes the war will abolish party politics, which is the greatest curse of any race or empire. He pays tribute to Mr Churchill, saying that his forced retirement was one of the great mistakes of the war. He deplored the spirit of over-confidence, and said we would require to holt! on with both hands and use all our energy to crush the foe. Ho hoped that with victory secure there would be an end to the system by which a party of lawyers ran the British Empire.