PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Kairbrothcr, who is at present at the Gisborne Girls' High School, hag accepted a position as junior mietresa at IJic local Girls' High School. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Shaw, who havfl been on a visit to Sydney and Melbourne during the past month, returned to New Plymouth last night. Word has been received, says the Hawera Star, tliat Lieut. W. S. Glenn hag been invalided to England from the front owing to an attack of fever. Among those recently wounded iij Prance are Private Frederick Henderson, son of Mrs. E. Henderson, "Inglewood; and Private S. G. McNeill; brother of W. 0. McNeill, of Oeo. Mr. J. Parker, chief sub-editor of thd Evening Post, has been appointed to sue* eeed the late Mr. Gresley Lukin ar edi* tor, and Mr. P. J. Earle has been ap< pointed chief subeditor. j ■ The Witnej3 says that information from a reliable tourco received in Manaia states that CVrporal A. Gilmour, son of Mr. John Gilmour, has been recommended for the D.S.M. f6r gallantry in assisting to bring in wounded comrades under fire.

Lieut.-CoJonel Innes, the newly* appointed chief secretary for the Salvation Army in the Dominiod, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara from Vancouver on Monday. (Prior to leaving! Manchester 'lie called on all the New Zealanders in hospital there. A Press Association telegram from Cliristcliurch announces the death of Mr. Archibald Wilkin, third son of the late •Tames Giunie Wilkin, for many years manager (if the Lyttelton Times Company. The late Mr. Wilkin had charge oi the process department of the Lyttelton Times for several years. He enlisted for service, but a few days later caught a chill which developed into pneumonia. The late Mr. James MeCracken, who djod at Te Mata, Raglan, was bo/11 at Banbridge, County Down, Ireland. At the ago of 20 ho enlisted for service i<t tile Crimean war, but found that lid was under the required age. A few years later he was drafted to New Zealan# with the G,sth Regiment of Foot, arriving in Wellington on July 21, 1856. He saw considerable service in the Maori war, all through the Waikato, Taranaki, and HuNvke's Bay campaigning. Lieut. Raymond Asquith, son of the British Prime Minister, has been killed , in action. The Premier and Mrs. R&v.•lond Asquith were the recipients of hundreds of messages of sympathy , (states a London cable). Lieut. Raymond Asquith vas a most brilliant ath.etc;, barrister, and scholar. At the oiitbieak of war ha gave up a rich practice to take a commission in the Queen's Vest ninster. Later, he joined tlio Grena.l'cr Guards, He leaves an on'ion, horn in April last. Major McDonnell, who returned to the Dominion by the Ai*awa, in charge of the sick and wounded men invalided home, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. Major McDonnell, who is accompanied bv his wife, will make a short stay in Now Plymouth bcfcre reporting for duty at Wellington. Major McDonnell, who was area officer at New Plymouth, and also Adjutant for the lltli Regiment, left with the Main Body as captain and adjutant of tho Wellington Battalion. Ha was wounded at the GallipoH landing. Canon Carnegie,-the now chaplain of the House of Commons, who recently married Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, i widow of the ex-Colonial Secretary, is a i man of very frank views and utterances. ' Christianity served with ice," <was his description recently of the "conventional respectability" with which some of the churches clothe their religious life. It was quite typical of the'man who wrote one of the best pwl most popular works oii religious teaching, "Churchmanship and Character." This is Canon Carnegie's best-known book, although he has several others to his credit. Prior to his present appointment, Canon Carnegie was rector of the M.P.'s clnirch, St. Margaret's, whore three years ago he succeeded Canon Hensley Henson, now ' De: 11 of Durham. Before that, Canon Carnegie was rector of the cathedral clnirch of St. Philip, Birmingham, where he succeeded another well-known divine, Dr. Knox, who is now Bishop of Man- , Chester. The new House of Commons chaplain is a Scotsman, born in Ireland fifty-six years ago, and after a brilliant university career spent two years travelling round the world, partly with his friend the Earl of Dudley. As a curato lie worked for some time in the East End of London, and will alwavs be remembered in Birmingham for t*e splendid cdueatrn work he accomplished among the poor children of the Midland city