PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

.The Hon G. Carson, M.L.0., who has , been incapacitated by illness for the past few weeks, is now able .to fake up his Parliamentary duties again, and has returned to Wellington. '■- Mr. Wm. Watson, of Wellington Ter- ., Tace, has been advised that his third son, Dr. J. A. Watson, has joined the British Navy as a surgeon. . : A° °W an <l muoh-respected resident of Wellington died on Saturday, in the person of Mrs. Annie Sloan, reliot of the late Mr. James who died some three months ago; The deceased lady, who was 74 years of age, was probably best known in connection with her religious and charitable work, and was always especially interested in missionary work in China, in whioh field of Christian endeavour her brother, the late Rev. James Anderson, was 'on- : gaged for some timo. For many years she was a very active member of St. John's Church and on removing her residence to Kielburn some three years ago, she joined the' Presbyterian Church in that suburb. Mrs. Sloan leaves two daughters, Mrs. G. A. Troup and ' Mrs. J. S. Butler. Dr. and Mrs. Mackin returned on Saturday from a week's motor tour in the North Island. The results of the police examinations conducted throughout, the Dominion last month were announced on Saturday. There were a largo number of candi- ' dates, but the percentage of passes was small. _ The examinations are merely. ' qualifying not competitive, and are in three grades, namely, for sub-inspec-tors, senior sergeants, and sergeant. Those who gained passes were as fol-low:—Sub-Inspector: Chief Detectives C. R. Broberg and W., B. M'llveney senior sergeant, D. D. Hutton; sergeant, W. M'Neely, Edwin Bales, and D. C. Fraser; detective-sergeant, ■J. M'llveney and S. Raivlo; detective, D. Cameron and F. M. P. Cullcn; constable, R. Moriarty, D. J. O'Hara, C W. Lopdell, G. Scrandrett, J. H. Mathieson, S. B. Edwards, L. Skinner, and E. J; Carroll; senior-sergeant: Sergeants T. O'Grady, H. M'Crorie, and W.F.Lewis: sergenats: Dotoctivos W. E. Lewin, A. E. Andrews, and R. R. Ward; Constables C. W. Tonkinson, F. Hammond, W. Kelly, W. Cooper, H. Martin, J. P. Cleary, D. Scott, W. E. Hunt, R. C. Drummond, W. H. Almond, M. Flanagan, A. E. J. Stark, W. J. Taylor, W. E. Packer, and D. 3. O'Neill. A feature of the examinations ' was that six 'members' of tho Lambton Quay detective office sat, and all passed. The English mail brought the news that that E. A. Seagar, son of Mrs. Seagor, of Brooklyn, had proceeded to France as a member of tho Army Medical Corps. Mr. F. W. Nicholson arrived by the Marama last week to take up tho position of general manager of the National Mutual Life Association, a position so long occupied by the late Mr. Orton Stevens. Mr. Nicholson has been connected with lifo assurance for over thirty-nine years, and has filled every position from oflico boy to manager, and for tho last twenty-seven .years has been attached to the Sydney oflico. During Mr. Dixon's illness tho management of tho Wellington oflico has devolved upon Mr. L. 11. Cbaffey, accountant. The death occurred on Friday last at his late residence, Maitai Road, Hatrittai, of Dr. James Simpson, M.8., C.M., formerly of Charleston and AVcstport. The deceased was sixty-eight years of age. , Two sons of tho Bishop.of Riverina, New South Wales (Right Rev. Dr. Ernest Anderson) have volunteered to go to tho war (states a Press Association cablegram from Sydney) ,

The death occurred on Saturday of Mr. T. Kennedy Macdonald, for. many years a prominent business man in Wellington as a land and- estate agent, and auctioneer, and who was more or less associated with the publio life of the city, having represented the city in Parliament from 1890 to 1892, and subsequently sat as,a member of the Legislative Council. Mr. Macdonald was born in. Boulogne, Franco, of a Highland family, in 1847, and the following year his parents were forced to leave Franco owing to'the revolution, and returned to their home at Lednachan, jFort William, Scotland. Mr. Macdonald was educated at Dundee, and later at Adelaide, South Australia. He oanie to New Zealand in 1871, and was first engaged as a clerk in the Defence Department. He afterwards joined the firm of Joseph Nathan and Co., and later commenced in business for himself as an auctioneer, land and estate agent, and company promoter, and for many years conducted a business in the old Exchange Buildings, on Lambton Quay. Subsequently, he went into partnership with -Mr. Alexander Wilson, when the firm became, known as Macdonald, Wilson and Co., with premises adjoining tho ClubVHotel, on the Quay. Some years ago that partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Wilson set up • for himself in other premises, whilst ilbe.old business was carried on by Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. Captain E. C. Dovey, who relieved Captain Cardale as adjutant to the 2nd Queen Alexandra Mounted Eifles at regimental headquarters, Hawera, has received notification of his promotion to the appointment of group commander of No. G group at Palmerston North, where he is well known and resided for some years before going to Hawera. It was Captain Dovey who originated the New Zealand naval and military tounuv ment, which is held annually in the four large centres in turn. Last Tuesday afternoon the officers of the infantry and mounted rifle clubs, together with those of the Defence Department and a few personal friends, made a presentation of a case _of pipes to Captain Dovey. Captain Dovey is succeeded in Hawera by Major Henty, who has taken up his now duties.

Dr. R. G. Waddy, a former New South Wales Rhodes Scholar, at present in the Public Health Department, Cairo, Egypt, a leiutenant in King Edward's Horse-, has gone to the front. Lieutenant R. H. Waddy, of Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry) Regiment, and Lieutenant B. H. Waddy, of the Gloucesershire Regimen, two sons of Colonel J. M. E. Waddy, Reserve of Officers, have also gone to the front. All three officers ars grandsons of the late General Sir Richard.Waddy, K.C.8., who served in the Maori War. in 1863, and are first cousins of Mr. P. R. Waddy, of Wellington, who himself served in the late Anglo-Boer war and acted as DeputyAdministrator of /Martial Law at Stutterheim, in Cape Colony. The Waddy family is conspicuous for having always had at least one member in the rank of' commissioned officers in the British Army since the time of Cromwell, . in whose army Edmund Waddy was a cornet. • , Mr. Roy Spackman has resigned the conductorship of the Napier Operatic Society. Captain Cardinal Sainty, one of Auckland's oldest residents and shipmasters, died on Friday at his home at Devonport. Captain Sainty was 82 years of age, and was born in London. He came to New Zealand in 1845 ,as chief officer of the sailing ship Siam. For some years the deceased commanded the Syren and traded regularly between Auckland and Newcastle. Subsequently he com j manded. several 6inall jailing vessels trading.on the New, Zealand coasts. The deceased then entered, the employ of the Auckland Harbour "Board as pilot, in which capacity, he aoted for 29 years. Heleft the service in 1909 and .'had lived in retirement ever since. Captain C. E. Clifton, who has been in charge of the Pahiaiua Senior Cadets for a considerable time, and who has been temporarily appointed in command of the Pahiatua Territorials, was pre-, sented with a gold wristlet watch by the Senior Cadets last week.

Mr. C. M. Luke was taken suddenly ill yosterday, and is likely to be confined to his room for a few days.