PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2317, 26 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (the Right' Hon./ W.F.Massey)is expected to arrive Iα I Wellington from Christehurcb this' morning. . The Hon. H. D. Bell, Minister of> Internal Affairs, who attended the open-, mg of the Lake Coleridge electrio power and lighting scheme, will return to Wellington to-day. The following chaplains have been" l ' appointed to the second batch of rein-' forcenients (now in camp at Trentbain) ' for the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force:—Anglican—Rev. C. E. i Tbbin, of Wellington, and_ Rev. Q. H. J Gavin, of Auckland. Roman Catho-I lie—Rev. Father R. Richards, of Ha-/f warden, Canterbury. Presbyterian—' s Rev. Angus Macdonald, of Auckland, j ; Mr. F. J. Mouat, elective member of • the Public Service Appeal Board,' ar-! rived from Blenheim last night to at-1 tend a sitting of the Appeal Board to : be held in Wellington , to-day.- V Our Pahiatua correspondent states',' that Mr. Tom Hodgkins has been elect-1 ed chairman of, the Pahiatua County, , ! Council. The late chairman, Mr. Corner ) liu's, declined nomination. J There died this week at Nelson a mattwho had served his country well—Mr.: James Thomas M'Auley, a member of the first New Zealand contingent for South Africa. Mr. M'Auley was a gunner in the Permanent Artillery, and was one of the first men in Auckland to volunteer for service in South Africa.; Hβ - had'a good record while .with the } colours, and to his medal were at-! tached clasps for Diamond Hill, Drie-' , . fontein, Johannesburg, l'aardeburg, and Relief of Itimberley. At he was the hero of a sensational es-' cape from the Boers while on convoy! work; He escaped across open country under a heavy fire, and rejoined kis comradesunscathed, though bullets had'', passed through his clothing, no fewer \ than three going through his hat. A 1 letter written only last month by one of his comrades in South Africa refers to his miraculous escape .when he rail a. : zig-zag race with death at Doomspruit,, and mentions him as a man who had: often given his last biscuit, his Jast pipe i of tobacco, and his last drojj of water. to his mate, even denying himself and : giving his last drop of water to his. horse when on a "hard trek. The hard' campaigning affeoted Mr. M'Auley's . health, -,but he was not seriously, rndis-. posed until a few months ago. __ V. A Press Association telegram from , / , ' Hokitika states that Mr. Arthur Olif-i ton has been elected chairman of the' 1 Westland Couaty Counoil.

Staff-Cadets E. T. RowUingß, D. E. Breniner, 0. Opie, W. G. Stevens, and A. H. Carrington, New Zealand Cadets who have been studying at the Australian Military College, Duntrobn, New South Wales, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by the Riverina yesterday.Thev were under orders to report to the Now Zealand military headquarters, Wellington. . ; In askiiig for fnrther leave of a!>- ; knee for Mr. James Trevor at the Har- ; bour Board's meeting last everting, the bhairman (Mr. E. Fletcher) said that; Mr. Trevor was Btill confined to hu. house. He waß sure that he (Mr. TrevorVhad the.sympathy of the mem-: bers of the "board in'his illness, and they trusted ho would soon recover, j