PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The oondifcion of Mr. E. R. Martis. who was injured' in a motor-car accident last week, is improving, although Mr. Martin Is not yet entirely out of danger. The doctors ,aro sanguine about his prospects, and'no symptoms have shown themselves to indicate any'severe internal injuries.—(Press Association.) Mr. Alfred East, assistant-master at the Clyde Quay School, lias been accepted as a member of the Ambulance Corps that is leaving New Zealand shortly with the Expeditionary Force. According to the schedule of his movements arranged before his departure from New Zealand, Mr. W. B. Hudson, secretary of the Government Life Insurance Department, would have landed at Marseilles about a week before the war broke out between England and Germany. He was to have met his wife in Holland, so that it is not improbable that he might have been in Germany when war wos declared, m on. the Continent, and in close proximity to the actual theatre of war. ' Mr. James Priest, for over thirty years connected with' the 'Wellington tramways (horse and electric), died in the Wellington Hospital on Sunday morning, after a brief illness. Mr. Priest, who was born in Tasmania, in 1867, joined the Wellington Tramway Service when it was the business of a private company, with Mr. Sidney Smith as manager. He worked himself up to the position of chief inspector, but latterly had been acting as depot clerk a{ the Thorndon office. The deceased, who was very highly respected, leaves a wife and one. son. Mr. J. L. M'Alister (a eon of' Mr. J. H. M'Alister, private secretary to the Minister of Public Works), who accompanied the first expedition, which left at the end of last week, as a private in B Company, Fifth -Regiment, was just able, prior to his departure, to sit for an examination as junior lieutenant, and it-is now officially notified that he has'passed. Mr: M'Alister has been a sergeant in the Wellington College , Cadets, and he was iflto, after leaving school, a sergeant in the Senior Cadets. Two other sons of Mr. J. H. M'Alister have volunteered for service in the main body of the Expeditionary Forced-Mr. H. S. M'Alister, of Wellington,. and Mr. B. M'Alister, of Eketahuna. - . ( The death is announced of another of N T ew Zealand's pioneer settlers of 1840. in th'o person of Mr. J.. J. Taiue, who died I sarly yesterday morning at his residence, ! North Head, Auckland, having attained the great age of 97. Tip to ti few.days ago ne had been enjoying splendid health, md'was in complete possession of all his faculties, when arf- attack of bronchitis supervening on a cold, brought- to a close the i life of. an interesting personality. Df-late years-Mr.'TiCihei'was'only an occa-: sional visitor to Wellington, but - his renerable figure was fairly well known'] iiero, where in 1840 lie landed from the New Zealand Company's ship Adelaide, iooompanied by Mrs. Taine,-\vh<s'as Miss Leoiaaia de, Olivera was the adopted laughter of Edward. Gibbon Wakefield. Sere and in other parts of New.Zoaland Mr. Taine built up a lucrative business, and in a few years he was able to retire into private life. He was. a contemporary of all the men who made names for themselves at the founding of this Dominion prior and subsequent to 1840, and could converse most interestingly on such personalities na Captains Kobson and Fitzrov,'our first Governors, the Wakefields, Shortlands, Bishop Selsvyn, and many others, while on the Native side he frequentlv met suoli redoubtable characters as Rauparaha, Ranpritiswata, and other turbulent leaders of the" Maori race. Mr. Taine leaves a -numerous family in various parts of the Dominion. Tlioy are Messrs. A. and W. Taine, Dnnet\m; Mr. H. Taine,. Stoke; Mr. C. F. Taine, Wellington; and Mr. i. G. Taine, Auckland T while the dauffhtersareMrs. Darling and Mrs. Fildes, Wellington; Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Russell, Auckland. , Tho funeral will take place next Thursday, from deceased's late residence, when his body mil bo laid beside that of the late Mrs. Taine, at 3'Neill's Private Cemetery, Auckland.' Sir Joseph and Lady Ward left for the south last night. A Press' Association telegram from (Vonganui states that Mr. F. Jl. Spurdle, me of Wanganui's most prominent citi:ens, and formerly Mayor * and manager if the Sash and Door Factory for many fears, died suddenly yesterday afternoon. Mr. D. A. Aitken, general manager of the Union Company, will arrive in Wel.ingfcon from Sydney to-morrow. An old and respected resident of Hastes, Mr. John Lawrence Mcllroy, died in. Sunday. Deceased had been in busiless in Bastings for over 20 years. Mr. Joseph Brittnin, late Consul-Gen-stal at Coburg for the tlnited States, is ■xpected to arrive by the next American itearaer to talp up a similar position n Auokland vacated some months ago by jlr. W. A. Prickett, whose state of health saused him to tender liis resignation. Mr. W. W. Averill, lieutenant in the Prist's College Cadets, has been apjointed acting A.D.C. to His Excellency lie Governor. Mr. Averill ip a son of Bishop Averill, of Auckland. \ Among the people stranded in Welling;on by the detention of the 'Willochra is Mr. Lester Brown, the American theatrial producer, who staged the pantomime 'Aladdin" for the Geo, Willoughby Company. ' Mr. Brown was on his way to America to discover some novelties for he next Willoughbv pantomime and was ixpected to arrivo tnere just in time to ;ee all the new season's productions. Captain R., G. Hopwood, 'of the Rifle Jrigade, who. has been aide-de-oamp to jieutenan't-Colonel Sir H. L. Galway, Govrnor of South Australia, is a visitor to Vellington. He was a passenger.by tho Villochra, and is continuing .on to imorica en route to England as soon as ircumstances permit. The death occurred at,Nireaha, Eketaiima <-«-rites our Carterton corresponding, of Mr. Wiliam Albert Cadwoliader, son of Mrs. Cadwallader,/ of Carterton, 'hv interment will take placo'at Claroille. Mr. Hubert Mitoliell if now in- Welington in tho capacity of advance repreoritative for the "Heady Money" Comdy Company. : .