PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2299, 5 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Private advice from Napier, states ihat Mr. Harry Mossj of Wellington, who met with a'.serious motor-car acciIdent last week, is-progressing as favourably as can be expected. His leg, the .'same one that .was broken at the thigh last year, was fractured in two places above the knee, .and progress will accordingly be slow. It will be at ■least two months before Mr. Moss can be removed from Napier. ' Mr. Frank Meadowcroft, manager in Kew Zealand for Cadbury Bros., and Mrs. Meadowcroft and daughters, who .went to Europe' some months were passengers by the Orsova, which- arrived at Melbourne yesterday.

In connection, with tho departure of !the llev. A. W. H: Compton to take up 'duty, as vicar ' of Greytown ' a well-at-tended social was. held in the church-; room, Kelburn,; to say farewell to him-. In a happy speech the Ven. Archdeacon Harper expressed the good wishes of the parish to Mr. Comptdn for his siicjcessful ministry, in! his now parish, and ia presentation was made. Owing to .absence from .Wellington, the Bishop Was unable tp.be present. '"'... A Press Association telegram from 'Auckland states that Lieutenant H. J. [Walker, whose: parents reside at Auckland, was reported missing at the War Office'on September 9. His parents Jhaye received a telegram from their pon, reporting, that he is at Brussels, , 6afe and well. .. . ..' ■• . ■

Dr. William E. Macklin, of Nankin, China, h devoting his furlough to a iour of Australasia. ' He arrived at 'Auckland from Sydney by the Malnira, and left later to visit Rotorua and Wellington, and will arrive here, on Saturday." A native of Canada, Dr. Macklin has devoted himself during the past twenty-eight years to China, and apart from bis position as a missionary and medical man he has' come into prominence as the translator into Chinese of several English and American works, including Henry George's "Progress and Poverty," which is now in its third edition, and. "Protection and Free Trade," Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic," and Schiller's "History of the Thirty Years' War."

Mr. Geo. Wirth, of circus fame, hae arrived back in Sydney from a visit to Europe. Ho was to have visited Hagenbeck's Zoo, in Hamburg, on August I, hut on accoußt of the disturbed state of that country, stayed' in .England. Tho artists he had engaged in Prance and Germany for an. Australasian tour, were summoned to join their regiments. in which predicament he had to proceed to AuiorVa, to encraee frosh talent-

The following promotions in .connection with the Salvation Army were made prior to Commissioner Ricbards's departure for Canada: —Staff-Captain Newb'y. of the Christchurch division, to bo major; Adjutant Sharpe, of National headquarters, to be staff-oaptain ; Adjutant Elder, of' National headquarters, to be staff-captain; Adjutant M'Kay, of -the National Training College, to be staff-captain; Adjutant Carter, national Training College, to be staff-captain: and Adjutants Thurkettle and Grey, of- Auckland, to be staff-cap-tains. • Staff-Captain Walls has been appointed to Ithe Subscribers' Department, National headquarters. The following have received promotions to the long-service order—Adjutants Lord (Oamaru), Brown (Newton), Cook (Auckland), and Davis (Auckland).

The death is announced at Invercargill of Colour-Sergeant Patterson, at the age of 81 years. , Mr. Patterson was a native of Kin.cardineshire, Scotland, and when a young man joined the Army. Hβ saw active service in the Crimea, and took "part in the taking of Sevastopol. He subsequently took part in several engagements ■in the Indian Mutiny. When the troops returned to tho Old Country, Mr.' Patterson married, and in 1876, with his wife- and young family, came to New Zealand. Since that date he spent most of his time in Southland. He was an ardent volunteer and keen rifleman, and was probably the best-known volunteor in Southland. ' On the occasion of the visit of General Sir lan -Hamilton to Invercargill, the - veteran,' with flowing white beam, ; red tunic, and Crimean and Indian medals, did not escape the General's notice, and he warmly congratulated the old soldier. Messrs. I. G. Duncan, W. H. S. Mobrhouse, and 0. S. Watkins have been elected truetees for the Wellington Racing Club. < .. , A very well-known and highly* respected resident of Auckland, Mr. Samuel' Cochrane Macky, passed away at the Auckland Hospital on Monday, reports the "Herald," after an ittnees extending'over, a month. , The late Mr. Macky was the eldest son of the late Rev. John Macky, Presbyterian minister at Otahuhu, and the first Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, who came to New Zealand in 1854. , .;:■.-:..■■■

-Mr. S. Hobday, of the Bank of NewZealand staff at Thames, has been, transferred to Morrinsville. Mr. L. Wiren, of Wellington, takes his place. Dr. W». E. Macklin, a Canadmn, who lias spent 30, year's in China as a medical'missionary, arrived in Auckland.on Monday, -and- left for Rotorua later. • Drv Macklin has been, visiting Australia at the invitation of the Church of Christ arid after seoing Rotorua contemplates touring New -Zealand for a fortnight. /•Mr. John Torrens Stevenson, F.R.A.S., died at Pukekohe on Saturday, after a short illness, reports the Auckland "Star," Deceased was 60 years of age, unmarried, the. third son of the late Mr. David Stevenson, and arrived in Auckland about. 50 years ago. Mr. Stevenson was an accountant by profession, but the study of astronomy was his favourite pursuit. Of a very retiring nature, Mr. Stevenson to.some extent hid his ability as an astronomer, : and often made private prognostications of volcanic disturbances, which his nervousness prevented him ~ from making, public. - An instance of this ivas the earthquake--at Messina, which ho foretold-to within two days of'its actual occurrence. His guide for these prognostications, was the position of the moon'and certain planets at a particular'date over a certain portion of the weaker section of the earths' crust.

Mr. Robert' Grieg and Miss Beatrice Holloway have left Australia to' play a season of American comedy in South Africa under tho management of. J. C. Williamson, Ltd: The comedies will include "The Fortune-hunter," "Never Say Die," . and ."The Seven Keys , to Baldpate."'. . Both Mr. and Mrs., Grieg(Miss Holloway) have been members of the Niblo Company eiiice it has been in existence in Australia. ' .Mr." and , Mrs. Lindo : Levied have taken up their residence in Wellington. Mj. Levien. has , taken over Mr. .J. Fairchilcl'e. dental practice durmc his nbsence' with tho Expeditionary Force.