PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2323, 3 December 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

———»— Vioe-Reoau, . His Excellency the Governor is dug back from Auckland to-day. Their Excellencies the Governor and! the Countess of Liverpool have arrange od to- leave "Wellington on December* 18 in order to visit Gisborne. Tiiey will leave Gisbornu on tho evening of. December 20 for Wellington, aud will proceed on the night of December 21] to Christchurch. ' Captain P. W. Bkelley, N.Z.S.C., who\ has had charge of No. 5 Area Group' (Wellington City and Suburbs) during . tho past three months, lias been"ap-'. ( pointed Assistant-Adjutant-General atf Defence Headquarters, and took up his' new duties last week. Captain D. E< Gardale, Adjutant of the 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, has; succeeded Captain Skelley as Grou'p Commander of No. 5 Area. Airs. Turner, -wife of Lieutenant' Colonel C. Harcourt Turner, Officer Commanding the Fifth (Wellington)' Regiment' at Samoa, was advised by wireless yesterday morning that as tho ■result of a buggy accident LieutenantColonel Turner had had his.leg broken}, and was under treatment at the Hos* pital. The condition of Mr. B. R. Mayor of Levin, is said to be showing slow, but steady, improvement. The Wellington Hospital nn3 Chari-' table Aid Board, before proceeding witli business at its meeting yesterday, pass-.; v od a vote of condolence and sympathy with "Mr. G. J. Petherick, a member ofthe board, over the death of his mother,-' which occurred at the Wellington Hos«V pital on Monday night. Mr. S. Tansley has been appointed . Acting-Official Assignee, vice Mr. A. Simpson', who has been absent from tha' office for several months owing to-ill-health. ' \ The annual report of the Wellington Accountants' Students' Society, which, was presented at the annual meeting last evening, stated that tho foljowing' members had joined the ExpeditionaryForces:—Messrs. S. J. Beiiians, H. A. Cunningham, B. L. Hoaro, T. J. King,! W, H. Nicholls, W. Power, F. Pri- , deaux, J. H. B. Saxon, and R. LV-. Ward. , ' : . A letter received from Sydney yew terday contains news of the sudden illness of Mr. Will Douglas, general manager for the Brennan-Fuller Yaudevilld Company, and formerly manager of His Majesty's Theatre, Wellington. MrDouglas, who was seized with illness when in his office, was at once conveyed to a private hospital. His complaint! is an intornalono. Mr. J. N H. Reynolds, who has been; connected with the Fire Brigade for tho, .. past 12 years, and for'some time pastT has been third brigade officer, has sev-t «red- his connection with the brigade, aS he is entering into business on his owtt account. Last night at the Fire Sta-i tion Mr. Reynolds was tho recipient_ of! a presentation consisting .of a writing desk and gentleman's companion from! the officers and members of tho brigade, Councillor W. H. P. Barber, chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of thej City Council, made the presentations and in doing so spoko eulogistically Mr. Reynolds'e long service in tho gade. Mr. Reynolds suitahly responded,--