PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 86, 7 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At the Chamber of Commerce meeting oji FYiday a resoution of sympitny wa* passed with Hie widow of'llu late ; .Ui. J. 11. Hemjpton. ( Mr Guy Scholield, now in London, a well-known Xew Zealand journalist, will accompany the New Zealand Expediionary Force in Europe. The llev. ,J. L. and Mrs. Kayll arrived in New ,Plym,outh on Friday night, and will stay at St. Mary's Vicarage during the absence of i.r. and Mrs. Cotvile.

The llev. Percy W. Clwrkson organising secretary of the .Afcirsden Fund, has been appointed Anglican Chaplain to loe Auek'-und infantry battalion, with the rank of captain, lie «u.s with tlio troops on the ..uiinea.

.Miss Gaskell, captain of the English ladies hockey team, has received word of the .serious Klnesa of ner father, and intended to leave, for I'iugland, but lian now decided to await further advice.—< Press telegram. A liokit.ka tccgram reports Unit John James ifenderson, headmaster of the lArahura school since j ,-S7, died early on Saturday morning. For several yours lite, was president of tin; West-land Teachers' institute, tie leaves a widow mid grown-up family. Captain Price Vaughan Lewes. D.5.0., who was formerly Deputy-Commissioner of the Western Pacific, a'jid for his services there received blie official thanks of the Xew Zealand Government, and a C.B. on his return to England, has just been appointed to wurmand il'.M. battleship .Superb. Captain Lcwe* will, be remembered in New Plymouth as liaving been in command of HALS. Cambrian when tliat vessel iva« here.

A requisition asking Mr. T. Buxton to contest the Tomuka seat at the next election is in circulation at 'i cinuka. it is coniidenUy -expected by some prominent Liberals that Mr. Buxton will give a favorable answer, and bis public announcement to the etl'ect that !,e would not be a candidate is regarded as cancelled by recent events, which have made a consideration of the wlrule position necessary (says the Tiinaiu Herald.)! The death- occurred at the An. kbuid 'lios-pnal last week of Captain M S'.entiford, at the age of forty-four years. The late (/aptain Stentiford was a very prominent ligure on the Auckland water-front, and up to a few monUiiS ago occupied hue posiijen of secretary to he Aucckland Coastal Alai-ter.-,' Association. He was also at one time president of tlio association. The deceased owned tho Haunch' Sea Wolf, which was engaged in harbor work., lie went north from Dunedin, and during the six years that ,he had been associated with Uie coat-tu] services n.f Auckland, made many friends.

The death occurred on Thursday, f.t the Momistery, Oriental Bur, Wellington, of the iltev. David Mulcahy. ( >',->J{. Deceased was born near Formoy, m County Cork, 27 years ago and enle"i.-d the KedcmpUiritst Novitiate in ISO- 1 ). Wnilo prosecuting his istndirs for th? priesthood lung troubles developed, and he was sent by his superior to a sanatorium in Uosotrevor, County Down. There his health improved, and he was sent lo Australia and New Zealand, ill? deceased priest had been m Wellington for the past fifteen months, and w<is greatly esteemed. He was an authority on the Irish language, both written and oral. ,

The following letter ha 3 .wen received from Bishop Crossley, in response to a resolution of sympathy ipasised by the parishioners of St. Mary's Church at their annual meeting:—"Wheelers, Bvnmshontt, 'Hampshire, England, dune n, I'.ll-i. Dear Sir. Lash,-Will you be good enough to convey to the parishioners of St. JVlaryVi, New Plymouth, my heartfelt thanks for their most kind and encouraging resolution. Nowhere | in the diocese bf Auckland- did 1 receive a warmer or more sympathetic welcome than I did at New Plymouth, and that not once nor twice, and I look l»aek with very happy memories to the days spent there and the cervices in your historic church in which we joined together. My health, which you kindly aisk after, is mluch 'better, and I have, been able, to do, a little helping work. Thank you for the appreciation of Mrs. Crossley's work. No one 'knows bettor than I do that -she is worthy of this at your hands. Pleaso give my affectionate greetings to the vicar, wardens, and parishioners of St. Mary's.--Yours very gratefully, Lloyd Crossley, I'lUhop '