PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour the Chief Justice. (Sii (Robert Stout) leaves Nelson to-3ay foi Blenheim to preside at the Suprem< Court sittings there. His Honour Mr Justice Edwards leaves for Palmerstoi North to-day. His Honour Mr. Justici .. Stringer hag goneto Blenheim oil Arbi . iration Court business. , • • The Defence authorities state thai word has bean received from Englanc to the effect that Messrs. H. P. D Godfr&y, W. J. Clachan, and A. C Clayton, who sat for direct commissions in the British Army, and who accompanied the Main Now Zealand Expeditionary Force, have been appointed tc commissions as second lieutenants in the following regiments Mr. Godfray, Gloucestershire Regiment; Mr. Clayton, , Royal Susses Regiment; and Mr. Clachaii, Middlesex Regiment. They : .will proceed from.Egypt to London to report at the War Office for further in- ,' ptructions. The Rev. Arthur _ William "Payne, M.A., vicar of Patea, in the diocese oi Wellington, has been appointed sub.warden of St. John's College, Tamaki, in. succession to the Rev. E. H. Strong, M.A., who has resigned in order to take .up work in EnglandMrs. Mary Thompson Campbell King 'died at her residence, 108 ■ Brougham . Street; on Thursday evening after a ibrief illness, at the "age of 91 years. ■The deceased had resided in Wellington ior ten years and at'Hokitika for 40 (years. Her husband (Mr. W. King) predeceased her by some 20 years, at Hokitika. Mrs. King is survived by a family of sis sons and two .daughters, BO grandchildren, and 20' great-grand-children. Miss. King, of the staff of 'Messrs. Kirkcaldie .and Stains, Ltd., is a daughter of the deceased, and one o£ the sons is Mr. James King, bookseller, [HokitiKa. ' _ News has been received of the death In Sweden of Mr. E. 0. IP. von Reden, for . many years identified with local bodies in the Wairarapa, and the first 'chairman of the New . Zealand Counties' Association. The deceased, who was a native of Hanover, went home about four years ago. When war broke out ihe proceeded to Sweden. He leaves a ■widow (a daughter of Mr. James Leech, of Motueka), but no children. Mr. W. H. D. Bell, 6on of the Hon. H. - D. Bell, and late member for Wellington Suburbs, has left for Vancouver, en route to England to join the King Edward Horse. He held a commission in : Ithat corps when studying law. in. London a few years ago . -■ Mr. Paul Dufault, the popular tenor Vocalist, has settled in New York as a teaoher. He is making 'a, specialty of the -French Tepertoire and • dictionCaptain John Evelyn Duigan, of; the Staff College, Quett'a, has been tranß'ferred to the.headquarters staff of the 'New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Captain' Athelstane Moore, D.5.0., has been granted the temporary rank- of jnajor while with the force. Mr. Tom Pollard, of Greymouth, was a passenger for the south by the Waline last evening. Mr. E. J. Gravestock, advance manager for the "Bunty Pulls , the Strings" Company, left for Sydney by the Marama yesterday, en route for Hobart, where the company is to play after the Wellington season. "Bunty" .will be in Adelaide -for the Christmas Boason. Mr. Robert Hislop, general manager of the South British Insurance Company since the death of Mr. J. Kirker, is 'about' to return to London' to assume the position of general manager for Great Britain. The board of directors Jjas appointed Mr. Percy H. Upton as general manager of the company,- that gentleman'having for the last thTee years filled the important position of inspector and visited most of the foreign branches. Mr. Upton joined- the South British Company in 1892, and Went to ■India in 1896, subsequently becoming local manager at Singapore.. He returned to Australia in 1901 as manager of the South Australian branch, and was afterwards transferred to Melbourne. Mr. Mark Jarvis, a well-known resiident of Greenmeadows, Hawke's Bay, died on the voyage of the .Mamari from London to ; Wellington. The deceased, who had not been well before !he left Home, took ill just beforo the .vessel arrived at Cape Town, and died .Whilst the Mamari wa3 alongside the wharf, and was buried .ashore.. Mr. 'Jarvis, who was 75 years of age, was accompanied by his wife and grand-! daughter. ' I Mrs. Arthur, wife of the Commodore-! 'Engineer of the Shaw, Savill, and Al-'l bion Co., Ltd., was the only saloon passenger to arrive from London by the Mamari yesterday. She has returned to Wellington on a. visit to her jnother who is poorly in health'.