PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15874, 13 April 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir John Denniston returned from Wellington yesterday morning. Mr and Mrs Farquhar "Voung returned to Chiistchurch yesterday, after fulfilling Easter engagements in the North Island. Sir Robert Stout and Lady 'Stout, who have been spending the Easter holidays in Dunedin, leavo there for Wellington to-morrow. Mr S. D. Snjtli has received cable advice that his eldest son, Scrgt. Ernest Smith, of the N.Z. Engineers, has been sent to England from France to undergo training for a commission. The Rev. C. H. Standage, of Wellington, has been placed on the supernumerary list of Methodist ministers, with tho right of calling on him to take at least twenty-fivo services during the year.

The funeral of Miss Foster, who was murdered on Sunday, took place at Oxford yesterday. There was a large attendance of friends and relatives from all over tho district. Dean Hyland, of llangiora, officiated.

Word has been received that Corporal Frank Pender, who Iteft New Zealand with the Main Body, and ivas invalided to England from Gallipoli, has been promoted to the rank of 6ergeant, and transferred from the Record Oljfce, London, to the Anzac Record Oifice, Capetown.

Mr A. Gow, stationmaster at Ngahauranga. retires on superannuation in May (states tho "Railway Officers' Advocate"). 'Mr Grow has 42 years' service to his credit. It was his intention to retire two years ago, but owing to the war he was requested to remain in the servicc; and the same request has again been made, but owing to failing health ho is compelled to decline. It is Mr Gow's intention to seek complete rest with a view to building himself up again. Two of Mr Gow's sons are at the front. Private advice has been received in Wellington of the promotion of Major V. F. 1). Cook to the rank of lieuten-ant-colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel Cook is a son of the late Professor Cook, of Christchurch, and partner in the legal firm of Messrs Fullerton-Smith, Miles, and Cook, of Marton and Feilding. Ho left with the Main Body, and acted as a staff captain during the Gallipoli campaign, being mentioned in despatches in connexion with tho fighting in August, 1915. He was invalided tho following month, and on rejoining his regiment, tho Ist Wellington Infantry, in February, 1916. was promoted to the rank of major. Shortly afterwards he became senior major, and has been second in command of his battalion for 6om« time. Major C. H. S. Snow, who has recently received the Military Cross for distinguished services in the campaign in German East Africa, is a New Zealander (writes our South African correspondent under date of March Ist). Tho prospect of fighting attracted him to South Africa at the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and when he was 17 years of age he worked his passage to Capetown in tho engine room of tho Waiwera, tho first troopship sent from New Zealand to South Africa for war purposes. Enlisting in the South African Light Horse as a trooper, tho New Zealandcr saw two and a half years' servicc in tho field, chiefly under Colonel Byng, in General Buller's column on the Natal side. During tho Boer War Major Snow was promoted to the rank of armourer-sergeant, and he received two medals and eight clasps —a generous reward and one well won. During the Jatc Boer Rebellion 'Major Snow joined the Transvaal _ Special Motor Service' Corps as lieutenant-in-charge of the armoured motor-cars. Towards the conclusion of tho rebellion, Major Snow, like the man in tho parable of the talents, was given charge of twenty armoured motor corps, and ho accompanied General Botha to Windhuk. where he received his captaincy. In German East Africa, Major Snow was attached to General Beit's column. Major Snow has two brothers fighting—D'Oyly Reis Snow, who was in Egypt and Gallipoli and is now in France, and Lieutenant F. H. Snow, who entered the Union Forces as a cadet on November loth and is now in East Africa.