PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVIII, Issue 288, 14 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. raises, ef Auckland, has been, appointed to ta'-e charge of the second militarv hospital !o be provided bv .<c\y Zealand. Dr. Normon lr'.s sold his Manilla practice to Dr. Milrov. Dr. Noonaii, who has been on the i'iairs for ;'bout twelveyears, is leaving the district. Mr. R. Cuming, who has been manager for sonic time of Me-s.-s A. Ilatrick and Co., Ltd.'s, inerchniidhdepartment, litis been appointed to the management of the company's Waitara branch. Mr. ilames Trevor, head of the firm of Trevor tiros., contractors "for the ieceiitly creeled Xew Plymouth l'tlhlie Hospital, died in Wellington yesterday. When the news was received in Xew Plymouth, work on (he new buildingwas ceased as a marl; of respect to

Ml'. 11. 10. Lodge, comity clerk, l.evin, lia-; offered his services with the expeditionary forces. ,-\t the llorowlienua County Council ineetiu? <w Saturday, it was resolved that six months' leave of absence be granted Mr. Lodge to join the forces, on the understanding that, if necessary, further leavo will be granted.

Tt is officially stated that Mr. Anthony Wilding has been killed in action. 16 was stated yesterday tint Mr. Wilding had been killed at the Dardanelles, bub a cable received by his father at Christchurch gave the north of France as tlia scene of Mr. Wilding's death. He held a commission in the l!oval Marines, and was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain a few days before he was killed. A cable received last night stated that Captain Wilding was attached to armor" ed motors. A shell striking a dug-ont he was in killed him instantly.

M. ili> Martens, a distinguished Belgian visitor to tlio Dominion, and who is lit present in Christehnrch, ia {£ major in the Belgian Army, nnd will leave Auckland by Hie Niagara on May IS to rejoin his regiment at Havre, I-ranee. M, Martens hml previously retired fvom tile urmv because he was above tlio ago limit, but that limit has now been extended, and he ia eligible to fight. >

The "Rev. R. Scott-West, who has been elected President of (he New South Wales Presbyterian Assembly, wu* formerly in charge of St. David's Churc.'i, Auckland, being well known among til# older Presbyterians of New Zealand. Hi was born in the Old Country and as a young man came out to the Dominion, St. David's being his first charge. From Auckland he went to Sydney, and he 18 at present a lecturer at the Theological College there.

Canon Mac Murray. vicar of .St. Mary's Church, I'aniell, Auckland, has been ap* pointed Archdeacon of Auckland in succession to Archdeacon Oalder. Archdeacon Mac Murray, who has been vicar of St. Mary's Cathedral for the past' £0 years, ia a well-known figure inl ecclesiastical circles. If,. i s a native of County Donegal, Ireland, where he was horn in ISM. lie was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and took his M:A. degree, lie was ordained *>.* beacon in !?.",? , f . or the curac 7 of Aughrto-nMil Rillnkm, and was admit; „„ priest hood in the following v,..,,• transferred to the curacy of Cavan in 1880, In ISS3 he was appointed rector of Kal« linagh and rural dean. He left Ireland in ISni, and, proceeding to Australia, began colonial work at Ararat in the diocese of Ballarat. In ISS7 he was appointed vicar of St. Paul's, Ballarat, .mil was elected canon of the cathedral. He retained this position until 1892, when he came to Auckland as vicar of • 1. Mary s Cathedral, a position which m s il! ndains. 11,. Wlls insta i l(>(l ag " I,lon of MnrVs Cathedral in t!X>t. ,