PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 22 February 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Calcutta cable message reports ths. death of Godlialc, t'ie reformer.

A London cable announces the death of Sir Lucas Tooth from heart failures

■Dr Barnett, the Well-known Dimcdin surgeon, is leaving shortly for the front.

Dr. Basil Adams, the newly-appointed medical tuberculosis officer at the Wellington Hospital, is expected to arrive by the lonic about March 23rd.

Bishop Grimes is still suffering from an illness that attacked him some time ago, but lie expects lo leave Ghriatchureli for Australia, on a visit this ■week,

Rev. A, B. Chappell leaves for Wei* lir.gton by the mail truin this morning, en route for Christchureii, where he wij I attend the annual, conference of the Methodist Church,,.

Mr. G. W. Rogers, who has been in a New Plymouth private hospital for the last couple of months,, returned 'to Opunak 0 on Saturday.

Mr. W. A. Low, the well-known jr theatrical manager, is. in town, making arrangements for the. Humpty-Djimpty pantomime season, commencing a.t tli(s . Theatre Royal on Tuesday, March i.

Commissioner Richards (CanadaJU lately in. charge, of the Salvation Army • in New Zealand, and Mrs Richards, have' * been conducting crowded meeting:; in 1 Toronto, Montreal and other Canadian cities.

,Mr B:i-t Kent, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, has declined to accept nomination for a further term of office owing to business reasons'. Ha lias been a member of the chamber for twenty- years, and has held the position of president live times.

News was received in Dunedin by private cable mtfssasro on Saturday of the death of 'Mrs. Wooleombe, as the result of an accident at Singapore. Mrs Woolcombe was -the daughter of Mr' A. Michie, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, —iPlreaa Asv ecfiation. ' u

The Rev D. Dutton, of Caversham, Dunedin, has ' been . ..appointed resident Presbyterian chaplain to the. cawp at Trentham. He will enter- upon his duties there on March 0, from which date the Presbyterian Institute .at the camp will be under his direction. : A Dunedin tptygram repprja that Dr. > John Bell, Medicai Inspector of Schools, died suddenly on Saturday. .He was pending a holiday 'at • Dunedin. Th.v •• late Dr Bell practised at Arrowtown for many years. In his younger days he -l. was, a noted interiprovincial Rugby half- 3 , back, having played' again3t Stoddart's team. .

A cablegram received a fe\v days age slated th.it a. New Zealander named McDonald had been drowned through' t!ie wreck of the Andromeda in a .sale at Falmouth. It is feared (says a Dunedin Press Association telegram)-, that t'-ie (leccaied is AUfin McDonald, aged nineteen years, a son of Captain McDonald, Fort Chalmers! He left the schooner Hnia at Auckland in order, to join the Andromeda before fsho left for Falmouth,

The Defence authorities hav- received advice of the promotions of Captains A. (J. Robinson and N. C. Hamilton, of the Army Service Corps, to the rank of majors, with ecect from October 30th. 1!)I4. Majors Robinson and Hamilton are members of the British Army, Service Corps, and both have been engaged in organising tho New Zealand Army, Service Corps for the past two - years.

Major Robinson .holds the (position'of Assistant Quartermaster-General ati Defence Headquarters, Wellington, anil Inspector of the Army Service Corps, New Zealand. Major Hamilton, who held the post of Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport.- Wc'linrton District, is serving with the New Zealand expeditionary forca in Egyipt. The news of the death at Canlfield, ' ■Melbournoj on ' Tuesday last, of 'Mr. ■{' Llndrew Campbell, at one time a very prominent figure in Wellington business circles, will be received with regret by his many old friends and acquaintances in Wellington. The late Mr Campbell was born in Scotland ,67 years ago, and, landing in Dunedin when quite a youth,, entered the service of tile National Insurance Company. On retirement from . the management of the Wellington . . brandi of Mr F. G. Thompson, Mr!--. Campbell was selected to fill tlie position, which he held until 17 years ago. < when he was promoted to branch manager at Melbourne. Having been subject to very bad health during the pasE two or three years he voluntarily retired from the company's service six : months ago.