PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain Sanderson Cooper, formerly of Petone, arrived from Rarotonga by the Moana yesterday.' Ho expe.cts to join tlie supplementary Expeditionary Force now in camp at Trentham. The Rev. C. G. Douglas was n passenger by the same steamer.

, Brigadier-Genoral R. H. Davies, who has had command of the' 6th Infantry Brigade at the front since the outbreak of the war, was invalided home, suffering fr<jm tlie after-effects of influenza, with complications (writes a correspondent from London, under date October 2). Although great secrecy is observed over all the'' military operations, yet it is asserted that Brigadier-General Davies;has given the highest satisfaction; in the command -.of his troops. These intlude the Ist Liverpools, the 2nd South Staffords, the Ist Royal Berkshire*. and . the Ist King's Royal Rifles. The brigade has been' in the thick of the fighting ever since the early days at Mons.

j Dr. Theo. Mortensen, Ph.D., F.Z.S., who is engaged on a two years' expedition for the Danish Government, will leave Sydney for Wellington by the Moeraki to-day. The doctor commenced his research work afc tho Philippines. From there ho went to Japan, and thence to Sydney, whore he attended .the conference or the British Science Association. His journoyings have been curtailed somewhat on account of the war. He leaves Sydney by the Mooraki, and when in Wellington will be tho guest of the Hon. H. D. Bell, Danish Consul for Now Zealand. Di\ Mortenson's stay .in the Dominion'will extend over two months, and during that time hjs object is to carry out marine and biological work. After the completion of, his Now Zealand researches he will visit Hawaii and San Francisco.

Mr. H. W. Harrington's appointment as Depaty-Chief Censor for the Dominion is notified in this week's Gazette, vice Lieut.-Colonel W. H. S. Moorhouse, resigned. Mr. A. Donald, of the Auckland firm of A. E. Donald and Co., South Sea Island traders, returned from a visit to Tahiti by the Moana yesterday. Mr. W. R. Howard has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Otaki. Messrs. J. M'Elhinnoy and F. E. Day were passengers for Auckland by the Moana, which arrived from San Francisco yesterday.. : Dr. MacLurkin, who has been assistant medical officer at, Rarotonga, and Mrs. MacLurkin arrived from the Islands by the Moana yesterday. Mr. Frank Johnstone, of Wellington, has received''a-letter from Melbourne, stating that his 'former master, Herr Hattenbach, the talented 'cellist, is seriously ill. Mr. E. J. P. Denny, an American wool-buyer, arrived from San Francisco •by .the Moana yesterday. '

Among the arrivals from San Francisco yesterday was Major E. Gordon Davidson, formerly of Nelson, but who has been absent from New Zealand for many years. Major Davidson was formerly an artillery officer in the American (United States) Army, but for tho past seven years has been connected in a responsible capacity with the Peruvian Army, and has been acting as a member of the Frontier Commission, the duty of -which is ,to outline the boundary between Peru and Brazil. Major Davidson is now on furlough, and intends to revisit Nolson.