PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. Duthie, M.L.C., who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to Wellington by the Ulimaroa yesterday morning. The Rev. John M'Gregor, of Oteramika, Invercargill, has accepted - a call to the charge of the Maryborough Piesbyterian Church. Lieutenant Richard Riddiford, of tiba Ruahine Mounted Rifles, has, says our Masterton correspondent, volunteered for service abroad, and will enter the camp at Trentbam. Private cable advice has been received in Wellington stating that Lance-Cor-poral Noel Ross, of the Canterbury" Infantry Battalion (a son of Mr. Malcolm Ross, the New Zealand official war correspondent), who was injured in the Dardanelles fighting, is not in any danger, and is progressing satisfactorilv. Mr. H. W. Moss, manager for Messrs. Johnston and Co., who, since his accident in Napier last year,, has ueen unable to leave his residence, has recovered sufficiently to return to business. the rooms of the New Zealand Moderate League yesterday members of the central executive assembled to present a token of their esteem to Mr. W. rearson, who is leaving for an extended tour of the world. The president, Mr. A._ S. Menteatb, in making the presentation, which, took tho form or a silver flask, suitably engraved, spoke of the activity shown by the departing member in assisting with the work of the league. On behalf of his fellowmembers he expressed the hope that Mr. Pearson would return greatly benefited by tho trip, and take his place among the league workers with renewed - vigour. Mr. Pearson, in returning thanks, said ho would be glad on his return to take up his work on the councils of the league should tho members so desire. He counted it an honour to have been one of the original movers in the formation of such an important organisation, and he trusted tns league would go ahead and carry out the great work it had in front of it. During his travels he. would keep the league in mind, and would take careful note of anything that might prove of value. News just to hand reports the death' from wounds previously received, of Lieutenant J. R, Waddy, R.A.M.C., reported on March 17. Deceased was the eldest son of Colonel J. M. E. Waddy, who served in the Zulu war in - 1879, and a grandson of the late General Sir Richard Waddy, K.C.8., who was Brigadier-General in the Maori war in 1863. The late lieutenant was a , graduate 'of the University of Cam- , bridgje, and was the first cousin of Mr. Percival R. Waddy, of Wellington, i Mr. E. Kennedy, of the Trades Hall, i yesterday received word of the death of I his brother, < Mr. J. Kennedy, in Sydl ney. , . ' Advices received from Melbourne state that Mr. Geo. H. Turton, general manager for Australasia of the Royal Insurance Company, who was a passenger on board the ill-fated Lusitania, was amongst the saved, and hss J reached Dublin. Mr. 0. W, Phillips, of the staff of Veitch and Allan, joined the camp of the Reinforcements on Saturday, and before leaving for Trentham was presented by his late fellow-workers with an automatic pistol, together with a leather "housewife." Mr. F. S. Reynolds, formerly of tha sessional staff of the Parliament Build-■ iiifis, who went to England last November, has received a commission as captain in the 3rd Battalion of the Worcester Regiment, now in training in Cornwall. Lieutenant W. Ward, of Oamaru, haa gone into camp at Trentham. - Lieutenant Ward was dux of the Waitaki Boys' High School in 1913, and has sjneo been studying at Otago University. His brother, Mr. C.~ Ward, 13 on active service in the Dardanelles. The Rev. R. Scott-West, who has been elected president of the New South , Wales Presbyterian Assembly, was fort merly in charge of St. David's Church, Auckland, and is well-known among the older Presbyterians of New Zealand. He came to the Dominion as a young man. St. David's being his first charge. From Auckland he went to Sydney, and ho is at present a lecturer at the Theological College there. Mrs. Loach has received the following cable message from ber husband, Major Loach, of the Canterbury Infantry: Battalion,'• who is iii hospital at Cairo:—"Wounded knee; progressing well." Mr. G. S. Layic, of Christchurch, has left to join the Seventh Reinforcements as second lieutenant. Amone those who were lost when the auxiliary cruiser Bayano was sunk by, a German submarine early in March was William Scollard, second son of Mr, J. Scollard, senr., of Blenheim. He was 35 years of age, and had been at sea- for sixteen years. He had filled the position, of chief steward on soveral ; of the Shaw, Savill liners. He!went to j Egypt in the troopship Ruapehu, after- , wards going to England, where lia joined the Navy in January. Messrs. . J. Scollard and M. Scollard, both well kuown in Blenheim, are brothers of the ■ docoased. Tho following is an extract from the, report of a committeo of the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association 1 who' recently visited the Wellington Technical School:—"Wo wero indeed very sorry to hear that one of our soldiers who fell at tho recent storming of . the Dardanelles was Lieutenant Hugo, whp was officer commanding the Wei- . lington Collego Cadets. Mr. La Trobe informed us that this soldier and gentleman. would indeed bb missed. He had a wonderful command' over the boys, 1 and was a.thorough soldier." 1 The National Reserve movement has i made itself felt in the Wellington 1111 dustrial Association. The meeting night , of the association was Tuesday, but as 1 many of the members drill on that ! evening of the week'a change had to be ■ made. In "future the association will ! meet on tho third Monday in every, , month. The change will take effect next • month. 1 1 On Monday evening a, number of Aro ■ Street, Mitchelltown, and Taitvillo resi- ■ donts met, and formed themselves into ! an association to watch the locality's in--1 terests. The members of the associa--1 tion consider that the Aro Street end > of-the town had been neglected lor some time: other districts had electors'' associations, and Aro Street needed one. \ : It is understood that some-fifty active i members will be enrolled in a very littlo while. 1 A few days ago the parents of a' young man who is with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion at the Dardanelles had an unpleasant experience as a rosult of a mistake of the Christchurch' 1 Defence authorities (says an exchange). The two old people, who wore anxious 1 about, the welfare of their son, wera thrown into a stato of alarm by the . appearance at their front door of a stalwart policeman, who asked: "Does Private live here?" The mother almost collapsed, thinking that the mop. songer bore nows of her son's injury or death, but tho famil.v was both ' ed and annoyed to find that tho coustablo merely wished to serve a smn--1 mons on the son (who was at the front) for having failed to attend his Torrid ' to rial parados. .Another son wrote to the Defonco authorities explaining tho young man they wo W seeking I prosoonto was at the war, but n' few. davs later another notiee to appear ati , the Magistrate's Court was loft' at tha house. In speaking of the mnttev $ member of the family remarked that tha parents had now given v\p hope of persuading the Defence anthorißos thai Jho bav was lichtiue instead of dtlllu\g l