PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2239, 27 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. His Honour Mr. Justice EdwardsiwilF leave for WaiigahUi oil Saturday next. • Drs. Begg and H. J. M'Lean aro ) leaving "Wellington with tlie Expedition-; ary Force. In tbo absence of Dr. M'Lean, Dr. Hamilton Allen, formerly' surgeon of tno Willochra, will act aß' bis locum tenons. ,

Cable advice has been received that! Mr. 0. R. P. Johnston, late, of The ' Dominion literary staff, has been grant-,' ed a commission in the 6th Battalion of. 'the Duke of Cambridge's Own Hegi- ; mont, with headquarters at Mill Hill. > Mr. J. H. Witheford.of Auckland, '»' former member of the House of R«pre-\ Bentatives, who went Home in connec«} lion with the flotation of a New Zea-' lahd mining-scheme, has arrived in Aua-' tralia on his way back to the Domin-' ion.

; 1 A cablegram was received in 'Auck-' land this week from Mr. J. T. Donovan,' stating that he had just been elected' Nationalist member of the House of Commons for Wicklow. Mr. Donovan' has twice beon in New, Zealand as an. envoy for the Nationalist Party. i Captain F. 8.. Sykea, of the Royal I Field Artillery, has arrived from Homo'f to take up duties under'the Defence*) Department. .. - •' i Mr. P. J. Macnamara, of the staff of' » the Napier branch of the National Bank, A left yesterday imorning on transfer ton Auckland. J I Mr. and! Mrs. Sidney Kirkcaldie, off Wellington, are visiting Napier. K Mr. A. Macfarlano,* a member of th.il Wellington Harbour Board, is at present travelling abroad. Writing lastj month from Malmo,-' Sweden, to the', chairman of the board (Mr. R. FUitA ,cher), he reported 'having an enjoyable'l time, and sent his greetings to mom-j hers.' Mr., J. G. Harkness has nioro? recently received a Cablegram stating!" that Mr. Macfarlane was in England, and so was well out of the war zone t . News ha« been received of the deathi' of. Mr. Alexander John Hadfield, an oltj New Zealand settler, who passed-away.' at his residence on St. John's Hill, Wa-,' nganui, on Monday. The deceased' was '■. the second son of the late Captain 1 , Henry Wilbraham Hadfield, of the In-j dian Army. He was born at Highcliff,; Ventnor, in the Isle of 'Wight, in "1842, j and arrived in the Dominion by the sail-: ins-ship Wild Duck, in 1862, after a) voyage of over three months. The de-..j ceased was for many years engaged' in sheep-farming in the Hawko's Bay,; and Otaki districts. ' He made many' trips to England, and.was there mar- a ried to a daughter of the iate Colonel | Charles Hadfield, of Litchfield, Derby- j shire, but his wife did not survive the.; stormy voyage out to New Zealand. { He married the second time, the'second daughter of the lato Francis Robin-' son; of Herrington, Foxton; The de-J ceased leaves'a widow and a grown-up' family of five sons and four daughters. :

A cablegram received at the Univer-". sity from Sydney states that the.Anie-! mean scientists sailed yesterday for Auckland by the Biverina. The person-,• nel of the scientists is as follows: —Sir. Ernest Rutherford, -Mrs. Hopkinson, '■•. Dr. Clowes, Dr. Davenport, Professor of Experimental Biology, Carnegie Institute, New York; Messrs. Ball, Ferrar, Hobson, Allorgo, and Woodward. . Lady Rutherford is at present in Christchurch. The following scientists will arrive at a later date:—Professor.' H. B. Dixon; Professor Brown, Astronomer, Yale_ University; Dr. Nicholson, Mathematics, King's College, Lon" ■ don; Dr. Thornton, Professor of Engineering;.' "Newcastle-on-Tyne; .Dr< Briggs, Agriculturist; and Dr. Eendle, Keeper of Botany, British Museum. ; The Riverina is due to' arrive at Auckland on Sunday next. . :