PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

1 The Hon. James Men returned from Auckland j-esterday afternoon. He will probably leave for the south on' Monday night. The Hon. P. M.'-'B. Fisher, left for the Wairarapa district by the afternoon train yesterday. , ■ .' ,Mr. J. A. Duffy, chief honorary inetructor to the, Wellington Head Centre Royal Life-saving Society, left by the Ulimaroa for Sydney last evening. He intends to tour the various Australian States before returning to "Wellington. Mr. J. M. Steinmetz, who for the past seven and a-half years has been connected with the Napier branch of the Customs Department, and who has recently been assisting the ftegistrar of Electors there, has been transferred to [Wellington. • . • ■News has been received in Welling-' ton of the death at- Preston Park. Brighton, England, of Surgeon-General Edward M'Kellar. M-D!, J.P., of Woodleigh, Preston, eldest brother of Mr. Dugald M'Kellar, of Wellington, formerly of H.M. Customs, Mr. A. A. M.M'Kellar, Christchurch, and Mr/ J. S. M'Kellar, New Plymouth. The deceased gentleman had a distinguished military, career (says the' Susses i"Daily News"): He was the son of Mr. Dugald M'Kellar, and was born at Battersea. Educated at Clapham Grammar School and University College, London, he subsequently became a member of the Royal College of. Surgeons. Ho was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Hon. East India Company's Service, previous to the transfer to the Crown. _He served in all 26 years in India, was in no. fewer than 16 engagements, serving through- ■ out the second Burmese War in 1852-53, with Her jiajesty's 80th Foot, and was present at the capture, of. Rangoon, Martaban, and Pegu, and received medal and clasp for the campaign. He also served throughout_ the Indian Mutiny campaign, and previous to the outbreak of the Mutiny ne'was surgeon in the .Gwalior contingent, who mutinied and massacred nearly all their officers. Sub-' sequently he was 16 years in the Bengal Cavalry, holding while in India many important civil and military appointments. Surgeon-General M'Kellar took part in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868, and received the medal.