PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2261, 22 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Hoslring is <w;peoted back in Wellington from the West Coast to-morrow. Tho Hon. J. AJlen returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes is to arrive from Christ-church this morning. Mr. G. F. V. Anson, son of Dr. Anson, of Wellington, has received a surgical appointment on the British torpedo boat destroyer Lookout, of the third flotilla. The Lookout is a'vessel of 9G5 tons, 24,600 h.p., and carries three 4-inch guns. Lieutenant Commander Charles B. EI. well R.N., who was killed in action at v Herbertshohe, was one of the officers lent by tho Imperial Navy for duty under the Australian Government. Ho came to Australia as First Lieutenant of H.M.A.S. Melbourne m 1913. Afterwards lie became commandor. of tho Pioneer. When the war broke out, in August last, he was at the Naval Officers' Training College at Geelong. At his own request ho was attached to the Expeditionary Force. An old identity of Masterton, in the Serson of Mr. Thomas Wilton, sen., jed yesterday at tho ago. of 83. Ho arrived in Wellington by the ship' Oriental in tlio 'forties. Ho leayes a grownup family of nine.—Masterton correspondent. Seaman G. V. Williams, who was killed in the Australian attack on Herbertshohe, was 28 years of age, and a Victorian. He went, to sea as a boy, and became an ablo seaman on tho steamer Wostralia. He served alno on the Loonga-na and tho Paloona. He was well known on the watersides of Sydney and Hobart as well as in Melbourne. He quitted the sea some time ago, and found employment 'in Melbourne City Corporation Electric Works. Ho was a member of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve, and had done more than the four of the five years' service, which was covered by his enlistment. He had ono moro drill to attend for the coiriSletion of his servico when ho was orered on foreign duty. H6 was ono of the best rifle and revolver shots in the brigade, and was generally known as'a plucky; vigorous, and athletic man. Mr. Herbert Bloy, who has been acting toinporarily as conductor of tho RojaJ Wellington Choral Society, was last evening appointed conductor of the society until the end of the year. Councillor Martin F. Luckio, who is to bo married to-day, was yesterday tho.. recipient of a presentation from his fellow councillors. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), in making tho presentation, paid a tribute to Mr. Luckie's late father, and referred to the valuable service Mr. Luckie had rendered to outside sport in Wellington as a member of the Reserves Committee, and in wishing huu every success and happiness for the future, handed him a silver tea and coffee service, suitably inscribed. Councillors J. Godber, G. Frost, J. E. Fitzgerald, and T. C. A. Hislop also added their congratulations. Councillor Luckie,_ in wisponee, expressed his appreciation of the kindly remarks that had been •uade about his father, and thanked tho Mayor and councillors for the kindly consideration he had always received ut their hands, and for the 'handsome presentation. The Singapore "Press" of August 11 announces that Captain G. R. H. Webb, Singapore R.E. (V.), took over tho dutiesof 0.0. Electric Lights Singapore Defences on August 6. Captain Webb is a son of the late Colonel W» Holdon Webb, N.Z.M. A private cablegram received on Friday, says the. Auckland "Star," announced the death in London of Mr. Albert M. Marks, chairman of directors of Hancock and Co., Ltd., Auckland. Mr. Marks was-originally-a-resident of 'Wellington, but has lived in London for many years. He- visited Auckland in connection with the business some fivo years ago. He-has. been in failing health for somo little timo,"and Ms death was not unexpected. Mr, H. G. Hill has accepted a seat on the Council of tho Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce. Lieutenant Harper Lepper, youngest son of Mr. H. B. Lepper, of Lepperton, who recently qualified for a commission in the British Army, has now received notice of his appointment as a second •lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment (the Duke of Cambridge's Own), states tho Tarauaki "Herald." This is the erstwhile 57th (the Old Diehards), famous in Now Zealand during the Maori War and in different other campaigns in other countries. The present 11th Taranaki Regiment is allied to the Middlesex Regiment, under the scheme by which New Zealand regiments are connected with those at Home. Lieutenant Lepper, who, has for the. past three or four years been a pupil at the local High School,-has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to leove with the Expeditionary Force to join his regi- • ment. '