PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2472, 27 May 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. H. Hemes Las returned from his visit to the South Island. „ Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) yesterday admitted Mr. Kenneth S. Caldwell, LL.D., as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Mr. Caldwell Is now in camp at Trentham, having leceived a commission ■•with the extra military iorce being raised by the New Zealand Government for service ahroad. ta l . handed the Bishop of Wellington his resignation ?L p/ Meters, and expects to leave tor England early m August. The reasons for this step are solely domestic. J , Ir j Henry Van Staveren, LL.B , and Mr. Ernest B. Tustin, LL.B., who were formerly practising as solicitors, were yesterday, admitted by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) as barristers of the Supreme Court. Mr. A. A. Gideon, who has been in charge of the Napier Gaol for the past six years, has been promoted to be Head gaoler at Invercargill. tt® 10 Mayors of Christchurch (Mr. H. Holland), and Oamaru (Mr. "iv. H. Frith), and Masterton (Mr. J. M. Coradine) were visitors to Wellington yesterday. The death of Mr. James Trevor was referred to at the meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board last niehf, on the motion of Mr. C. E. Daniel! "(chairman). A resolution was affirmed expressing the board's sympathy with the deceased gentleman's relative's, and re- . cording appreciation of his valued services to tho community as a member of the board and ill other public capacities. . At last night's meeting of the Wellington Rugby IJnion Dr. A. M. Tolhurst wrote asking leave of absence, as ho was going to the front. The application was granted, and a motion passed congratulating Dr. Tolhurst' on the Btep he was taking. . Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Army, with Mrs. Hodder and Brigadier Bray, is due at Westport on Saturday. They will conduct meetings there on Sunday. During thi6 tour the Commissioner will visit BrunI ner, St. Albans, Lyttelton, Ashburton, Timaru, and other towns. About 300 persons attended the Petcne Drill Hall last evening, where a farewell social was given to tho 14 Hutt and Potono members of tlie Fifth Reinforcements. The Mayor of Petone (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) on behalf of tho town bade the lads from the Valley farewell, and trusted tliey would all return safely. Dr. Mason and Mr. J. Piper also spoke in a similar strain. The interment took place at Karori Cemetery yesterday morning of the remains of the late Mr. George Pinnock. An impressive ; en-ice was conducted by the Rev. Archibald E. Hunt. Wreath's wore sent by the family and the staff and boarders of the Columbia Hotel. The late Lance-Corporal Leslie P. Solo, who died of wounds received at the Dardanelles, is tho first New Plymouth boy to lose his lifo in the war. Lance-Corporal Solo was educated at tho High School, and on leaving joined tho commercial staff of tho "Taranaki Horald," being transferred after a year or two to tho literary side, as a reporter. Ho was a keen Territorial, and was one of tho first local men to volunteer for service in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Among his comrades on tho staff of this paper (says the "Taranaki Horald"), he was a. general favourite, as he was also in other circles, and universal regret will be felt that he has so early fallen a victim to the enemy. Latest Salvation Army appointments made by Commissioner Hodder are:— Staff-Captain Hildreth, of the trade department, to be manager of the Workmen's Home, Wellington; Adjutant Macaulay, trado traveller, to be manager of the_ trade department, Christchurch ; Adjutant Inwood, manager of the Workmen's Home, Wellington, to be trad'e traveller for the North Island. Cable advice has been received that Dr. Barnett, who left Dunedin with his family at the beginning of March, and volunteered for service, has been appointed a surgeon at the military hospital established at Colchester (about 51 miles north-east of London). His second son, Mr. Kalph Burnett, has received a commission in the Lancashire Fi-siliers. Mr. Geoffrey Barnett, the eldest son, is with the* New Zealand Main Expeditionary Force. Mr. F. Davis, clerk in tho railway station at Carterton, who has joined, the Reinforcements, was farewelled by his colleagues and friends on Monday, and was presented with an engraved gold wristlet watch. The stationmastor, Mr. Hunt, made the presentation. To the long list of curious things put up for auction on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund will shortly be added a pig with a curious history. Caught when Hirce weeks old in the busli uenr Gishorne. it was tamed, and now it has just completed a journey on foot from Gisborne to Otahuhu, where it awaits a buyer. Its captors performed the journey on horseback, whilst the pig, accompanied by two dogs, was content to trot behind. Although the journey was done by easy stages, it is surely a record of its kind (says the Auckland "Herald").