PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2465, 19 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor arrivefi from Ar /ji&tl yesterday ihoiniiigj aij( left a£-/~ for tho northern city laft evening."

The Boil. W. H. Herries h&§ gbiie south, en route to tlie West Coast:

Sir j. G. Wiisori, President of tip Board of Agriculture, is ih Wellington. Word was reeoivckl in Aiickliiiid yesterday morning by Uis Honour Mr. Jilstice Ohaprnaii that his sohj Lieutenant Gl'drgc Martin Gliapiuarij liad been killed at the front. Lieutenant Chapman hold a commission in. the Royal r Army Medical Corps. At the outbreak of the war he was houso surgeon at the, London. 1-laspitai, aiid lie volunteered tor service; aiid was accepted., liefer eiico to the blow that has fallen'ujj-' his colleague, Mr. Justice Chapman, v made by Mr. Justice Cooper ycsterc afternoon. . Mr. Justice .Chapmap I been presiding at the criminal and Mr. Justicc Cooper at the civi. sitting, but the last-named took over the criminal work in the .afternoon unty other arrangements coiild be made: llr. Justice Cooper made an announcement regarding' the death of Lieutenant Chap, man on behalf of tho Bench and B? and the community. He wished to r press the deepest feelings of synipaj' with Mr. Justice Chapman. "Lieiii ant Chapman," he said, "was'a doc arid held a commission in the Ro. Army Medical Corps. He ha 6 fallen a non-combatant while doing his dut nobly in tending the sick aiid wouhd&. in tlie firing line. I am sure that the sympathy of the whole community will go out to my brother Chapman at this time." The. Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C., and Mr. J. C. Martin expressed the deep sympathy of the legal profession' in Auckland to His Honour in his affliction.—Press Association.

llr. G, Wilkinson, who .contested the Bay of islands seat in. 1911 and 1914, states, saya a Press Association telegram from Auckland, that hS will not be a candidate at the forthcoming byelection.

Mr. Edwin Hall, of Auokland, hag been on a visit to Wellington.

Owing to the news of the death In action of Captain Ateo Frandi there was no parade of '.he No. 81 (Wellington .City) Senior Cadets cn Monday evening. Instead, Lieut. R. Rankine addressed the company, pointing out what a severe lose rlie death cf Captain Frandi. was, not only to No. 31 Company, biit the Senior C:idct mbveiiient as a whole. The late Captain Frandi had always beeii affectionately referred tn as '"the ,'skijjpei'," and his administration. of the ;'-fairs d ( the coulpSnJ had made it what it nliw was—the crack company of New Zealand.

Councillor R. A. AY right, M.P., hal been appointed chairman <jf the Baths, Beaches, and Libraries Committee oi the Wellington C;tv Coiincil.

Mr. Duncan I'. Bauchop, B.E.j A.M.I.Mech.E., engineering lecturer on the staff of the Christchurch Technical College, will leave for England Shortly, where lie will volunteer for active service. Mr. Bauchop intends to join the Royal Naval unit of the engineering division, which is being i'uriiislied to the War Office by the combined Institutes of Mechanical, Electrical, _ and Civil Engineers, the naval engineers being drawn from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Mr. John O'Brien Beckett, wioser death occurred at Upper IWccarion on Fiiday last, was ail eld Indian Civil Serralit. On liis retireiilelit from the Service in 18S2 .he came to settle in New Zealand. Mr. Beckett was born in India ill 1827) was in Ireland, and returned to India to join the Honourable East liidiail Civil Service at 17. years of age. He went through the Mutiny, being stationed at the tittle at Almora. where he and Sir Henry Ramsay were the only responsible offi j cers. Mr. Beckett was a great hunter, explorer, and tn6Untaineer, and- penfr* trated farther into Thibet than any previous explorer had done from India up to that time. In iBB3 the late Mr. Beckett settled at Upper Riccarton, where he lived until bis death. His son, Mr. J. B. Beckett, resides inl Christchurch.

Captain Edward M'Donnell, a hero of the Maori War, who was 80 yeara of age on April 29, called at the Drill Hall on Saturday (says the Wajipnui correspondent of an exchange) with tlie object of giving in his name for the National Reserve. The veteran is still anxious to do wh&t he can for his King arid country, and sets a_ noble example to the younger generation. Captain M'Donnell was one of the bravest arid most capable officers that saw service! iu the Maori War. He acted as guide tc von Tempsky when the latter madethe memorable, but fatal, attack on Td Ngutu Ote Manu, the famous Maori stronghold in Taranaki, and was or gteat assistance in leading the remnant of forces through tho bush at night after their disastrous experience.

Captain M'Cracken, of the China pilot service, arrived from the East via. Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Captain Crawford, of tho Pateena.i and Mis. Crawford, who have been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned by the Moeraki yesterday. Private We. Stitcßbury, of the Auckland Battalion, who was among the list of wounded that came to hand yesterday morning, is one of four wbe are at the front. ' Another bfother is Mr. Albert A ; Stichbury, of WeUington, representative in New Zealand for Pascall's fconfectioriery.

Private Philip Hunter Brown, ineluded iti yesterday fliofniilg's list or wounded, is a son of Mrs. .Edith Amue Ker. of No. 10 Rawhiti Terrace, Wellington.

Tfls Majesty's Tradfl Cftntmlssionei" (Mr. W. G. Wickham) leaves for Auckland on Tuesday nest, and he will address the Empire Trade League m that city oii Wednesday.

A Pre6S Association telegram front Auckland states that Sergeant A. \\ allace (engineers), reported to have died of wounds at the Dardanelles, is probably Mr. Alan Wallace, the 1912 Rhodes scholar, who was at Oxford University at the outbreak of war. Private advice has been received (says a Press Association telegram) from Aucklatidj that Mr. E. M. Rhiiid, who was d private in the 3rd Auckland Company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has received a comuiission as second lieutenant. He is widely known in the Dominion, ana was on the Auckland staff of the Bank of Ivci7 South Wales when he joined the forces, Mr. Barrie Marschel has returned from a business trip through the Domiuiou—this time in advance of the latest American film success "Time s lunctured Romance."