PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. S, Ogdcn, curate of St. Mark s Church, Wellington, is to leave Auckland for Vancouver On May 18.

Captain J. R. Henderson, N.Z.S.C., Deputy Assistant Qtiiirterihaster-General of the New XeaUuui Expeditionary Forco in Egypt, returned to Wellington on Saturday by the Turakina from London.

Captain W. S. Wallis, N.Z.M.C. who resigned his position as senior, house surgeon at. the Clirislchurch Hospital in order to proceed to the front, has nrfived in cttiup at Tfeiltham.

A Clii'lstehurdi I'icss Association tolagrain fecords the death of Mi 1 . i{. W. Thompson, aged 50... He was the former he;td of Milner arid Thompson, the wellknown. musical warehouse.

'Mr. W. E. Pearson, sectetary of the Wellesley Club, is leaving Wellington shortly for Sydney, en route to Japan. Mr. Pdarsoii intends to travel the world for twelvo months.

Mr. H. E. Lodge, clerk of the Horowhenua County Council, has offered his Services in the Expeditionary Forces, and hopes to be accepted shortly,.

. Mr. R. G. Sellar; of the well-known legal firm of Halliwell, Sellar, and Thomson, is voluntarily retiring. from tllo partnership. Mr. Sellar, who Is leaving Hawera about the end of May, tnirposos taking an extended holiday ior health reasotls.

.An. old and highly respected settler bf the. Masterton district, Mr.' John M'Kenzie, of Te Whiti. died on Friday night, at the. ags of 86. He camo to New Zettland in the ship Blenheim Castle in the year 1840, and resided in. the Te Whiti district for sixty years. His wife predeceased liini a fortnight ago. His family numbered eighteen, thirteen of itliom ato living.—Special Correspondent.-

Staff RegltiieutAl Serpiearit-Majof S. G. WeStOhj cif Clllistchurcli, has been notified that he is wanted at Treiltham in connection itith the training of the new fdfee.

The many friends of Mr. J. R. Boose, secretary of tho Royal Colonial Institnte, will regret t-o heal' (says tlm "British Australasian'' of Mardh 18) that his health has riot beeii godd silica his return-frlthi liis retifilifc visit to Au«« trfllia and NeW Zealaildj arid than hs is iiow away l>nm his offiiie owing to illness. His ditties as secretary #t6 being tem|)oraril.y undertaken by Sir Harry "NVilsoitj

Miss L. A. Hlintj 8.A., at present on tile staff of the Naplet High School, lias been appointed as assistant inis* tress at tlie Wellington Girls' College.

Mr. J. (X M'bowell, li.Se., was fatewelled oil. Saturday by. the students of Victoria University College on. the eve of his departure for Australia. A email mascot was pteseiited to him, and hest willies were expressed for his future welfare. On the previous evening, Professor Easterfield and the students of the. Chemical Laboratory, with which he lias been connected as assistant alid demonstrator, assembled to say farewell, and to make a snibll presentation as a token of their esteem. Mr. M'DoWell has been specially identified witli tlie strident life of tho New Zealand University) and his loss will bo keenly felt both ill Wellington and in. tho other tfnivefsity centres.