PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vioe-Beoaii. His Excellency the Governor, tie . Countess of Liverpool, and Suite, will attend the opening performance of "Bunty Pulls tlio Strings," at the Grand Opera House on Saturday evening. Trooper C. Alexander, who joined th'e> mam Expeditionary Force at Ota™, died m the Wellington Hospital on. Saturday night, from pneumonia, con-i tracted while in camp at Miramar. Deceased was 28 years of ago. Mr. A. T. Bottomley, clerk assistant , to the Legislative Council, returned by' tho llotorua yesterday after a trip to! England. The House of Representatives last , niglit took notice in the customary way of the death of two ex-members of tho- : iNew Zealand Legislature, the late Mr.. T. Kennedy Macdonald and the lato Mr,' Walter Symos. The Right Hon. W F.I Massey, referring to the late Hon. T.i Kennedy Macdonald, said l that his re-j cord of achievement showed that he hadj taken life full sharo in the public andi commercial life of the community. Hβ moved that the House record .its appre- , ciation of the services rendered to the Dominion, by the late Mr. Macdonald , . and tender to his widow and family its l sympathy with them in their bereave--ment. Mr. T. M. Wilford. seconding! the motion, paid a high tribute to the<! deceased as a public man. The motion was affirmed. A similar motion regarding Mr. Walter Symes, member in. two Parliaments for Egmont and Hawera, was passed by the House. At 9.15 p.m. the House adjourned until 10 p.m. as a mark of respect to the doceased gentlemen. The staff of Messrs. Dalgety and C 0.,, Lt-d.j Palmerston. North, on Saturday presented a wristlet watch and rug tdi Lieutenant 11. D. Hardie, who is going ■ with the next contingent to the front/ Captain Richardson, Adjutant of the 1 . sth (Wellington) Regiment, who Kae been laid up for some weeks. with ap-! pendicitis, was sufficiently recovered to' again take up his duties yesterday. ; Owen Benny Morgan, third eon.'of Mr. R-ees Watkins, of the Parliamentary staff, died suddenly at the Hospital on Sunday morning. The deceased lad some eight months ago contracted infantile paralysis, which last week developed into pneumonia, causing his death. Mr. Frank Rutherford, a member of the Expeditionary Force, who ia at present an inmate of the Wellington Hospital, suffering from a serious attack of congestion of the lungs, was reported by ' the Hospital authorities last night to be in about the same condition ae when first admitted.

Mr. J. P. - Marconi, until lecently; produce manager for the Bank of New Zealand in London, , arrived in Wellington by the Rotorua yesterday, accom-"' panied by his wife and children. Passengers by the Rotorua from London, which arrived yesterday, were Sir William Smith and his daughter, Sir William Smith is on a visit to Mi eon, who has a station near Gisborne. Mr. L. A. Nicoll, of Ashburton, re-, turned to New Zealand by t!he Rotorua, after an absence of eight) years. Mr. J. H. Board, cricketing coaeli for the Huwke's Bay Cricket Association, arrived by the Rotorua yesterday, and proceeds to Napier to take up his duties with tio association. This is. his sixth season with the Hawke's Bay cricketers. He is accompanied thia trip by 'his daughter, and his son is already in New Zealand.

Mr. W. F. G. Lovin and family returned from England by • the Rotorua yesterday. _^