PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 311, 10 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

!•• M. Ilain, tile Scottish Kughy interA llrisbane iiil'F-:l'.'i>-; stale-; that tho b'ev. .'lei:-.. Xev.!,.:;. ol New fiuinea, ,!:; ' 1 !l ' mianimo'.i-'iv elected I'.ishop o£ Mr. M. 1). Snell. former!,- of Hie Sew '.'lyr.nailh Magi-lr.U e's (V.iri stall', and now attached, to the .lu-lav Departineiit. is. paying a short v.'.-it here, lie has volunteered lor tho final, ami goe, into Trchtham camp The death is arcaouv.-el ~f Mr. J. Staph-,, who, with hi, brother. Mr. W. Staples, founded Staple's ' brewery, Murphy Street, in ISiid. Deceased, who was in his 77th year, retired from active control of the brewery Mime years ago. Ncv. . comes' from Queensland that Canon Garland is abandoning his Biblc-in-schools compaign for the present, and has at the rocptcst of the Archbishop of Brisbane accepted the position of resident chaplain in the training camp lor the Queensland Expeditionary Force. At YYaitnra, on Saturday, a presentation was mdae to Mr Dugdale, who, off and on for 28 or 30 years, has been connected with the Waitara Freezing Works as chief engineer. On behalf ol the owners, he was given a gold watch, and also received a present for hia •wife. "Brigadier Carmkhael, who has the oversight of the Salvation Army work for the northern part of this island, will pay his first visit to New Plymouth on Friday, when he will bo accorded a' public reception in the Army Hall. On Sunday he will ajso conduct the services. The Hon. K. C. Stevens, whose death recurred in Christchurch on Saturday night, was born on October 18, 1837, and was a sun of tho Ee.v. W. Stevens, rector of Salfonl, Oxfordshire, lie was educated at Marlborough College, and the Koyal Agricultural College, Oircencester. lie arrived in New Zealand in ISH Milling in Canlorburv. From 18G3 to |:v.; he was a member of the C'anterImn I'ro-.incial Fxeciilivo, and in 1888 was el-eied to Parliament for Selwyn, but was defeated at the next election. in IS7ti he was elected for Christchurch, being re-elected in IS7O. In 18S-2 he was appointed a life member of the Legislative Council. In October ISS7 he held olfico, without portfolio, in the Atkinson Administration, resigning with Ms col." leagues in December, IS!)].