PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Grace Archbishop Redwood, who has been on an extended visit to ope, is expected to return to New land towards the end of June. He is. returning from England via America.

Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auck« land, will leave for Dunedin on Wod< nesday night. A private cablegram received by Us father reports that Corporal Alfred God* frey Watson, a New Zealander, ■ who went to the Dardanelles with one of, the Australian contingents, .has been killed in action. The cablegram mentions no date, but it is surmised that Corporal Watson fell in the great battle with; the Turks fought about a week ago oil the Tines east of Gaba Tepe. Corporal Watson was a member of the third battalion of the First Infantry Brigade. New South Wales (A) Division, First Australian Reinforcements. He was 29 years of age, and though lie had been absent from this country for some yeara, had many friends in Wellington, Alick* land, and elsewhere in the Dominions At . one time ho was. employed in the! shipping department of Levin and Cow at Wellington, and later with P. Hay« man and Co. After spending some timd in Auckland, where he worked for the film of Briscoe and M'Neil, he_ went, about seven yeare ago, to Australia, ana thence -to New Guinea, where, with & partner, he took up a rubber plantation, which engaged his attention until ho enlisted for active service. Corporal Wateon was an old boy of Wellington; College, and a member of the Amateur Athletic .Association and Star Boating Club. His father is Mr. W. C. v\at« son, a well-known builder, who lias been a resident of Wellington for about fortjj 5 Captain Wheeler, of Christchurch, left for London by the Turakina on Satw day. Ho intends olfering his services to the Army authorities at Home.

Mr E. W. Gibbs, who has travelled For the firm of E. W. Mills and Co, for fiftv years, left on a trip to England bv the" Turakina on Saturday.

Mr. George Ellwood, the gift-eS Cliristchurch 'cellist, Who has been: studying under Jean Gerardy, and es-i caned from Berlin on the night war, was declared, is now on his way to New 1 , Zealand.

Dr. Gillies, a New Zealander, and S celebrated golfer (ex-champion), has been appointed chief surgeon, in a Berln gian lipid hospital.—Press Association, ° Dr. Thomas Fergus has arrived ati Trout ham from Dunedin. He volunteered for active service, and was appointed surgeon-captain to the stationary hospital. Dr. Fergus, who is a soil of Jlr. Robert Fergus and a nephew of the late Hon. T. Fergus, received many tokens of esteem before liis departure.Mr. Mauglian Harnett, of Auckland, who has consented to conduct the Royal Choral Society's performance of "Cava]ieria Rusticaiia," is a visitor to \\ ellington. He was given a warm welcome on takinc the baton at Friday evening rehearsal.

On the occasion of his leaving for Trentham, Mr. P. R. Parr, a member of the staff of Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., Wellington, was presented by his fellow employees with a gold wristlet watch, suitably inscribed.

Mr. It. C. Hunter, of the Customs Department at the Bluff, is about to retire on superannuation. Reference was iuade at tile Welling* ton Orphans' Club meeting, on Saturday, night to til© death of Captain A. Frandi, killed in. action at the Dardanelles, who was an energetio worker or the olub from its inception. A resolution of sympathy to his parents was adopted. Mr. Thomas Lomax, of the jobbingroom staff of the "Evening Post, has been presented with a shaver 6 outtit and a wristlet watch oil leaving that employ to go into camp.