PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2470, 25 May 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

\ Millar, who has been lying very ill at his homo in Auckland tor some weeks, is reported now to be slightly better, though still very far from well, f P on " H. Herrios (Minister tor Hallways) arrived at Westport on , atnrday morning, and inspected the local railways, and conferred with the 11 arbour Board. In the afternoon and in the evening the Minister met deputations in the Town' Hall, the main .question being the importation of coal, Herrios said that he was taking 80,000 tons of coal for the railways tins year from the Coast, as compared With 74,000 last year, and would tako Irore if the companies met him in regard to the price, Sir. W. E. Saunders, of Lower Hut-t, fs now to sing the tenor role in "Cavalleria Rusticana" with the Royal Choral Society, on June 1, owing to Mr. Martin Duff, of Dunedin, boing untoblo to come to Wellington. Counting Sirs. Rosewarne and Mr. Frank Charlton, with Mr. Saunders, Mrs. Ernest Queree will have three of her pupils figuring as soloists ill next week's performance. , Mr. Peter Dawson, and the members \bf his concert party, returned from an extensive tour of inland New Zealand ton Saturday evening. The party got as far as Wairoa (Hawke's Bay), and there they were marooned for a week on acoount of the bad state of the bar and the impassable 'oads. Thov made the journey to AVairoa by motor, but the awful state of the roads would not permit them to return either to Napier or Gisborne. The company i 3 now to ,Visit Blenheim, Nelson, and the West Coast, 3fter which Mr. Dawson will ■return, to England. The death of Mr. Hayward Arthur Owen, a prominent and respected resident of Wellington in years gone by, is announced by the London "Daily Telegraph." Deceased, who was born 'in the Old Country eighty years ago, established himself in business in Manners Street as a chemist in the sixties, 'and was succeeded there by Sir. Henry Brittain. From Wellington Mr. Owen Went up the Wanganui River, where lie engaged in farming for a number of •years, eventually returning to , England, where he took up his residence eight years ago with his son (Mr. Charles Owen), at whose home at West-cliff-on-Sna he died on April 7. His ■wife predeceased him by many years. Curing the time-he lived in Wellington ,lm was closelv associated with the affairs of St. Peter's Church. Cabled advice has been received stating that Private A. R. Gillespie, Who was roported to have been wounded in : fche fighting in the Dardanelles, is suffering from a hip injury, and is in hospital at Cairo, progressing satisfactorily. Pte. Gillespie, who .is a member of a well-known Wellington familv, also served with the New Zealand Contingents in South Africa. News has arrived in Wellington of Vhe death at Providence, Rhode Island, tT.S.A., of Mr. Franklin Holding, the rafted violinist, who visited New Zealand about eighteen months ago with the concert company headed by Madame Lillian Nordiea. Cabled advice has been received by the relatives of Lieutenant F. L. G. West, of the Third Auckland Infantry Battalion, who was wounded during the Dardanelles operations, that he was convalescent at Malta, and doing well. A private telegram received in Wellington announces the death at Reefton on Sunday night of Mr. Charles Mirfin, a well-known West Coast journalist. For a number of years he nad been proprietor and editor of the Inangahna • Herald." Telegraphic advice has been received *to the effect that Sergeant G. M. Hogben, who was reported wounded recently, is progressing favourably. Miss Beatrico Day, tho popular actress'with tho_ Plimmer-Hall Company, has bson advised that her son, Mr. Robin Wall, who passed out of Clifton Dollcgo (Engkud) in December last-, and has since been training with tha Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps, lias been given a commission in the 3rd Lincolnshire Regiment-. He is the youngest of the Clifton Collego boys to gain a commission, and soon hopes to ho in action under General Sir Douglas Haig, who is also an "old boy" of the College. Mr. Maurice Hurndell, who was ou tho staff of Messrs. M'Eldowxiey Bros., of Wollington, a little over twelvo .. months ago, has been at the front ever since September last-, and has seen all tho horrors of the winter campaign in .the trenches in Flanders. Soma.months ago ho was -unfortunate enough to develop blood-poisoning, presumably 'duo to drinking water bei'oulod by dead bodies, and when last heard from wan recuperating at Rouen. Whilst thara he had the ill-luck to burn one of his hands badly, and there was a chance that ho would havo to have it amputated. Last week the members of the office staff of Messrs. Mason, Struthers, and Co.. Ltd., Christohurch, mot aud presented Mr. A. W. Winstono with a pair of fiold-glasses prior to his leaving for Trentbam to join the Expeditionary 'Force. Mr. Winstone is the tenth member of this firm who has been accepted for service at the front. At a gathering of North Canterbury school teachers at tho Alexandra Hall, opportunity was taken to bid farewell to Mr. Boyd, assistant teacher at th« Rangiora High School, who is leaving for Trentham. Mr. Boyd was presented With a silver flask and a safety razor. Word has been received to the cffect 'that a Southland trained che-esomaker, 'Mr. Andrew Duniop, r.ow manager of TTawcra Dairy Factory, has gained world's championship honours in his profession by being awarded the red ticket for his entry of cheese at the Royal Dairy Show, England. Captain Edward Lycett Lyon, of the ISth Hussars, recently' Lord Liverpool's aide-de-camp, has been wounded in action. Private 0. M. Norris, whose name has appeared in the list ofthose killed in action while serving with the New Zea- J land Force at the Dardanelles, was the fourth surviving son of Mr. T. C. Norris, of Christchurch, and a brother of Mr. E. T. Norris, Registrar of Victoria College: Private Norris, who was in his 23rd year of age, was educated at Christ's College, where he was one of the school prefects, and was in the eleven and the fifteen. Mr. S. Hill, of Wellington, has received cabled advice that Kis son, Pre. Leslie G'. Hill, of the Auckland Battalion, who was wounded in the Dardanelles operations, is progressing favourably. The nature of his wound is not known. Sergeant E. G. ICendle, of the Wellington Battalion, whose name appeared in one of the latest lists of killed in action, was o. farmer of Matatera, Hawke's -Bay, whii was in partnership with Mr. Drew, formerly of Palmerston North. The Wellington relatives of Private Ch.irk-o M'Donald, who was reported as •having been wounded, havo been advised that ho is progressinsg satisfactorily. Mr. Peter M'Coll, engineer in charge of the municipal power-houses, has been 'advised that the wound sustained by his

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