PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 104, 25 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Leatham is leaving London by the Orsovo to-day, on hia return to Kcw Plymouth.

The Rev Mr Parata, now on 'tis way from England to fill the vacancy caused ■y »he scmoval of the Rev. James JVforland from Invereurgill, i s a lepliew of itr. C. Parata, M.±\ for tii e fcjouithoru Maori District, 110 studied at Selwyu College, New Zealand, acted a» curat* at St. Paul's, Dunedin, una went T T cm« aa duiplaiin to the Primate of Now Zea. WjvMiop Nctfile, to further !r'g BWidiets. Ho came winder tho notice of tte Bishop of London, who sent him to 'Cartagena, in Spain, where 'he conducted kis wrvicea in the onJy British Churek there. Subsequently, he returned to England, wfherc 'he was gi v?n a cffiarge,. He speakß the native an-] English knguagea fluently, is tola, of fine pereoomlity, is an earnest worker, *ni take* great interest in athletic*.

Among those who fell in the cam. piufln carried on hy the Australian forcesagamet the Germans in the Pacific wa# liieutenant-Oonumftnder Charity Biuj/nam Elwell, who was killed during thtt %htmg in New Britain. li o VTas bom , I ' l , lr \? n< L m c , I V B > -u,un g 'lays attend\ed the King's School, Parraauatta. Hd entered the Royal Navy as a ra de6 iu 1890 and after a period of training won't to sen. m September, 1898, on the icnn i - Cllaniu:l "eet. In j anu . Svi +l' a C jo "i cd tbe R °yal Arthjr,. «ymg the flag of Rear-Admiral II 1 leajgon, Commander-iii-Ohief j n Au«- ™ After being two years iu Commonwealth waters, Ihe returned to Bn"land, and was subsequently on the OapW of Good Hope Nation, where he was promoted to nontenant in 1904, Eirter--lcge at Greenwich, hoas an interpreter, the languagein wluch h 0 passed being French? lie was roccewiyely on the battleship Ma"i j e Atlanti c Squadron, theeniiser Andromeda, iu the Home Fleet, and the Encounter and the Challenger! ,ef the Australian squadron. In 1911 he Z'r n l d u Gii >ralta-r to England, ■ , ; ® Melbourrfl being commissioned for her maiden voyage to AiutTaJaa, he was lent by the Admiralty a®d appointed to her as first lieutenant! In December of last year Li.nUeZ* PeTfo J aS f nt t ? the Nwal College at i.ti i - j '!' e he remained till bW outbreak of the war, when he was a®mZ tith +V le . c " lmrtcrcd steamer Bsr. W.' n t ' ,l( \f llK ' tralian expeditionary force. Deceased s father was the flrs* &WalcT Cei ' f ° r railWajß itt NeW