PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

via a dispatch received by Senator ■Pearce, a notification appears of the appointment of Major-Genoral Bird,wood, who is in charge of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, as ;a Knight Commander of the Order ,of the Star of India. i Mr. Laing, Dunedin manager of the Bank, has received cable advice : that his brother; Captain H. D. Laing, was killed in action on Saturday last, i.'Captain Laing, who was married, and ) was about 38 years of age, was captain Jin a Territorial regiment at Inverenrie, ■ which regiment is attached to the Gordon Highlanders.—Press Association. . Mr. C. B. Morison, K.C., has been valuer for the City Council fSa connection with Messrs. Brailsford'a 'Te Aro reclamation lease. Mr. A. L. Wilson will act for the council in connection with certain land in Boy Street, i The Hospital Board deoided yesterday fto send a letter of condolence to tbe ■ relatives of Nurse Prince, who died in ', the Hospital last February. ' | Dr. Agnes Bennett, physician on the Children's Hospital honorary staff, lias ' ' been granted extended leave of absence -• Vduring her service abroad with tho Bed Cross Society. Sir, J. J. WalklatO) manager of the ([Auckland Tramway Company, is visiting ' .Wellington in connection with the pro'posed new Government regulations. Tho i Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), members of tho Tramways Committee, and Mr. W. H. Morton (Tramways Manager) are to • interview the Minister of Public Works on the same subject on the return of the /Kngineor-in-Chief (Sir. E. W. Holmes) ..^.Wellington, \ , Mr. A. B. Sievwright, LL.B., was \ yesterday admitted, by His Honour Sir. justice Chapman, as a barrister and '(solicitor of the Supreme Court) on the ■motion of Mr. Alexander Dunn, M.A., •fLL.B. Sir. Sievwright is the champion of New Zealand for the one-mile and three-mile walks, and holds a commission in the sth (Wellington) Regiment. I Mr. C. Houldsworth', general manager I 1 the. Union Steam Ship Company, is ,a passenger by the Niagara, which left 'Sydney yesterday for Vancouver, via ''Auckland. Sir. J. R. Macdonald hag been elected Vpresident of the Heatherlea Golf Club, 'Levin. The greens are to bo ready by ■ihe first Saturday in April. Lieutenant F. W. Roydhouse, who is : leaving Carterton, was on Tuesday evening presented with a travelling-rug [by tho members of the Carterton De- . (fence Rifle Club. . Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Inspector--1 \Geueral of Hospitals and Chief Health ' (Officer, has been visiting Auckland. The Rev. F. A. Crawshaw, who for 1 the past eighteen months has been • icurate of St. Mary's Parish, New Ply- ■. mouth, has decided to re-enter the mis- . sion field. _ Mr. Crawshaw, whose headwill be at Norfolk Island, will Sake up his duties in July. '• Mr. 0. R. Brown, of Christchurch, lias been appointed woodwork and drawing instructor for the Hawke's Bay ■ Education Board in the Gisborne disi trict. : Sir. W. R. Haselden, S.M., chairman 'jtof the North Island Railway Appeal \ Board, left Auckland on Wednesday (for Wanganui, where a sitting of the aboard will be held. The Australasian chief office of tho ■•Massey-Harris Company, Ltd., has sent ia cablegram to the New Zealand office, Announcing the death of the secretaryjtreasurer of tlie Australasian branch, \Mr. J, G. Turton, as the result of-a. ■ (motor accident in Melbourne. Mr. [Turton had been in. the service of the '.company, for thirty years, and' visited ;New Zealand a few weeks ago.. A visitor to New Zealand by the (••steamer Rotorua, which reached Auck- . /'land on Tuesday, is Sir. W. Sheridan, fa member of. tie Tasmanian Assembly. ( !Jlr. Sheridan has been a Labour reprei tentative in tlie House since 1909. At tbe election of 1913 he was defeated, /but on the death of Sir George Davies, \ the then Speaker, he won tbe by-elec->tion for the City of Hobart. His return. ..'divided the House equally, there '15 on each side, thus creating a political crisis, in which tho Governor, Sir Ellison .Jlacartney, subsequently played a proeminent part. Mr. W. Sheridan is about 4o pay a visit to relatives in Otakeho, (Taranaki.