PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

-The Eight Hon! W. F< Ma-ssey (Prime Minister) returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon.' Ib is probable that the Hon. J. Allen and the Hon. It. .H. Rhodes will return to Wellington from tbe south this morning. •' v Mr. Alfred Doakin, formerly Prime of Australia, Avill to . r : to .Wellington ' Mr. Deakm, who has been appointed Conlinoinrealth Commissioner for the -Panama Exhibi-' tion, is a through . pa6sengei by the Marama from' Sydney, to ban Francisco. Jit. G. Hoshen. -O.M.Gr., InspectorGeneral of Schools, Tetires on April 30 pest, but following the usual custom of the, Service, ho will retire frpni active duty three months earlier, on JaTViKiry 81. He will be succeeded'by Dr. W. J'Anderson, at present Assistant Inspec-tor-General, who will .take Tinder tho . now organisation the title of Director of Education. ' The Hon. D. R. Hall, Attorney General of New South Wales, arriyeß in [Wollhigton by the. Marama.\ : . The Dofence Department has been advised that Surgeon-Captain James. Alexander Terras Bell, of the Now Zealand Medical Staff Corpß, died on December 29 from hemorrhage of the brain. Dr. Terras Bell; who was about -iortMOur vears of age, was the only, son of the kte Mr. Jv T. Bell, of .Chnstclmrch. and was educated at a private school in that city. Afterwards he attended the courses at the Dunedin Medical School for two . years, and then completed his studies at Edinburgh University. , He returned;»to rChristohurch, end Was engaged in gefteral practice for a year. • He then decided to take .ilp the study of diseases of .the 'eye, _ear, nose, and 'throat,, and with that objoct in view visited London; Edinburgh, and Vienna. Ho returned: to Clmstchurch about sis years ago, and had been m practice as a specialist mco then. iWhen war broke out Dr. Terras Bell waß one of the firstmedical men to volunteer, and he left New Zealand in the Maungaiiui with the Main Expeditionary Force. He leaves a widow and two children.' v •. - Mr. W. Barrington MiUor formerly of Gisborne, who is now one of .the leading moving picture proprietors in Sydney, is, paying a visit to Auckland. He will ..arrive here on January 13. ■ - Constable Fitzpatrick, of Marton, and Const-able. King, of Picton, have been promoted to the rank of sergeant. They , are both coming -to, ..Wellington on transfer: : ■ :• The funeral of Mr. William Kirkwood Orr, brother of .Mi'. . Allan Orr, of "Wellington, took place at, Karon yesterday afternoon.. Deceased was 70 years of age". - ' ' •■': '.v 7 '" Mr. H.'Cecil Smart, of London, reprerenting Messrs. Lipton, Ltd., is in tbe "city at present. Mr. Smart- is travelling the Dominion in the -interests of 1 his firm. V J,: Mr. W. Brown returned to. Wellington by the Ulimafoa yesterday.