PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2247, 5 September 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. G. Wickham, H.M. Trad*. Commissioner, wlio has been . absent from Now Zealand for the last seven months on business connected with his official position, will return to Wellington by the Warrimoo next week. Captain H. M. AY. Richardson, Adjutant of the sth (Wellington) Regiment, has had an attack of appendicitis, and will bo laid up for some time. It is' hoped that an operation will not be necessary. . ' The death of Mr. W. C. Gasquoine i at .ail ■ early hour yesterday morning (briefly announced in yesterday's Dominion), came as a great shock to his many friends in Wellington. Hβ was known to have been a sufferer from a weak heart for some years past, but he had been out and about during the week and Ms cheerful manner had obscured the seriousness of his condition. Mr. Gasquoine. who was well known all over New Zealand, was born at Maryborough, Victoria, in 1860, and came to New Zealand when only six years of age, with his father, who entered into business in the then flourishing mining town of Charleston. In 1874 he entered the office of his uncle, Mr, Martin Kennedy, in Gjeymouth, and in 1885 he came to Wellington to manage the local branch of the Brunner Coal Company. When some time : afterwards that company was absorbed by tho Westport Coal Company, Mr< Gasquoine was appointed local manager. Later ho commenced in business in Manners Street as a coal merchant, which business was, in April, 1906, sold to , the iiewly-formed State Coal Department. Mr. Gasquoine managed tho Department's depot until the retirement of the late Mr. Alexander Macdougall (managing agent), when he was appointed general manager of the Department. Only a few weeks ago the Department's business was taken over by \he Mines Department, and Mr. Gasquoine retired on August 1 with three months' leave of absence He was a .director of the Wellington Opera House Company, J. Staples and Co., Ltd., ,arid the Empire Box Company. He took an active interest in the affairs of the Thorndon Roman Catholic parish, and was a, populae member of the Thorndon Bowling Club, the Orphans', and the Savage Clubs, He leaves a widow (the sister of the Rev. Father Kimbell, of and. a family of four sons and two daughters. The eldest eon is Lieuten< rnt Charles Gasquoinc, a member ot tho first section of tho Expeditionary Force, now at Samoa, and the second son is an engineer in tho Union Steam Ship. Company's works at Evans Bay, The funeral will take place at 9 a.m< to-day. Mr'. F. Punoh, who is leaving Pahiv for Hamilton, was presented with' a silver-mounted pipe and ease by the members of the Pahiatua -Fire Brigade. ■At the annual meeting of the brigadej Mr. Punch was elected lieutenant. ■ Mr. G..Godfrey Taylor has been eleofced chairman of the Scarborough Do-, main Board. Mr. j. Snodgrase, late manager of thai Napier branch of the Bank of New ZeaJ land, left for Auckland yesterday mornj iug, en route to Tamanga. Mr. Harry Lauder, the famous Scot* tish comedian, will arrive from the south this morning. . After the entertainment this evening he is to pay a fraternal visit to the Savage Club. . Mr. Carlyle Sinythe, who has been' managing Mr. Alexander Watson's tour, left for Sydney by the L'limaroa yesterday evening. Bo is to return to New Zealand a little later on ivith Sir George , 'Douglas "Mawson," the Antarctic scientist, who is to deliver a! series of lectures throughout New Zealand on the expedition ho recently; .headed.- -. ■ Mr. and Sirs. J. Hinton, of the New Zealander Hotel, left on a holiday trip to Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr. F. A. Hampleman, of the Brooklyn School staft, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis. Hβ Ls making satisfactory recovery. The Rev. Percy W, Clarkson, organ* ising secretary of the Marsden Fund, has been appointed Anglican Chaplain to the Auckland infantry battalion, with tho rank of captain. Hβ sails with, the troops on the Waimea. The death occurred on Thursday, at) tho Monastery, Oriental Bay, of the Rev. David Mulcahy, C.SS.R. Deceased was born near Fermoy, in County Cork, 27 years ago, and entered the Rederaptorist Novitiate in 1905. While prosecuting his ■ studies for the priesthood lung troubles developecT, and he was sent by his superior to a sanatorium in Rosetreyor, County Down. There his health iraoroved, and he was sent to Australia and New Zealand. The deceased priest had been 'in Wellington for the past'fifteen months, and was greatly esteemed. 'He was j au authority on the Irish language, both written and oral. The Rev' Father Mulcahy, of Mackay, Queensland, 'recently paid a visit to Wellington to see the deceased, who was his brother. Requiem Mass will be held to-day at 9 a.m. at Mount St< Gerard's Church. Captain G. T. Hall has been appoint ed major in the Army Servico Corps. The appointment has been gazetted. Mr. Walter Fisher has joined the , 3rd Regiment, Auckland, as a volunteer for the front. He is a Bon of Mr, Stephen Fisher, Feilding, and a grandeon of tho late Hon. James Temple Fisher, Royal Navy and- Postmaster General in the Gray Government.