PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2477, 2 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

[Vice-Regal.]

Their Excellencies Lord and Lady; I/iverpool ivill attend tlie concert to bo* given by Mr. l'eter Dawson and his concert party at the Grand Opera' House this evening. The proceeds go> to the Fund for Wounded Soldiers audi Sailors and tlieir Dependents.

'fho Prime Minister, accompanied bj; tlio Hon. W. H". Merries and the Hon, Dr.' Pomare, visited Ngaruawahia yesterday morning, and unveiled a memorial, to Waikato soldiers who fell in tha Maori War. Afterwards the party; went on to Hamilton, where Mr. Maw sey opened the Winter Show. Mr. Mas*' soy and Mr. Herrics returned to the Ciity last night. The former will bo in Auckland for a day or two. His movements are indefinite. Press AsstH ciation

Sir James Fairfax (senior proprietor of tie "Sydney Morning Herald, and prominently identi6ed with public philanthropy) lias been appointed prest* dent of tlie National Art Gallery. ' Press Association. '

The Bishop of Wellington has mads tho following engagements for Jime:—■" Friday, 4th: Institution of the Rev. H. G. Blackburna, M.A., at Palmerston North. Sunday, 6th: Consecration of ; the church at Deanonsfield. Monday. ; 7th: Visit Otaki for consecrations at the Sanatorium and the Parish Church. ; Saturday, 19th: Address the Students Union at Victoria College. Sunday,; !!oth: Institution of the Rev. J. H. Sykes. Saturday. 26th! Preside at the meating of the Society for Promoting Sunday School Work.

Private W. S. Coleman, who was killed in the Dardanelles, was born in Wellington. His parents are now resi* dent in Pynnont.—-Press Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Niblo, the Ameri» can players, give their final performance in Australia at Melbourne to-mor-row evening. They leave Sydney for San Francisco on Saturday next. Mr. E. Pirie Bush, formerly of ■Wellington, accompanies them. Mr. Charles Laing, son of Mr. Montague Laing, manager of the London offioe of Messrs- Sargood, Son, and I'lwen, and brother of Mr. J. Laing, manager of the grocery department of Messrs. IV. mid G. Turnbull, Wellington, has received a commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. : He was formerly; in tho Honourable Artillery Company, but owing to ill-Health was unable to accompany that body to tho front, during the early months of the war.

Major J. S. Duigan, p.s.c., LG.S., has been appointed General Staff Officer, Auckland district, ill succession to Major 0. B. Macdonald, p.s.c., who is now Staff Instructor of Infantry at Trentham. Major Duigan will hold his new appointment until the end of the war, and will have charge or the training of the Maori Reinforcement Contingent now being formed.

Mr. Keith Mitchell, of Messrs. W, and G. Turnbull'b staff, was presented with a watch bv his colleagues, on the occasion of his departure for Trentham, Mr. James Macintosh made the presentation on behalf of tli6 staff.

Major A. B. Charters, one of the Wellington Education Board's Inspectors, who left in command of tne Ist lniantry. Reinforcements, for Egypt, has been piomoted to the rank of lieutenantcolonel, and placed in command of an advanced base.

Later news has been received in Wellington of Mr. Maurice Hurndel, who up till shortly before the war broke out was ou the staff of M'Eldown6y Bros., of Wellington. At last report he was recruiting his 'health after a bad bout of blood poisoning (sustained whilst m the trenches in Flanders) at Rouen." which plivc« a bad burn almost settled the fate of one of his hands. Thei latest news is to the effect that hiß hand had henled satisfactonly, aiid that he was under orders to report at ft iirivisii base for medical inspection pnor to returning to the fighting line. Mr. Humdell has been with the British forces ever since September last.

Captain R. C. Hocking has been appointed temporary area officer and. adjutant of the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, vies Lieutenant W. W. Burn. N.Z.5.0., who has joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Foroe.

Mr. M. E. Hankins, of the "Wellington' Tele graph Office, who has been relieving in Napier for the past' two months, returns to Wellington to-day. Mr. J. O'Donovan, who has been aoting in his place at Wellington, Mums to Napier on Thursday. Information has been received that Mr. Raymond M'Lean, second son of Mr. Murdoch M'Lean, Mayor of Mount Albert, Auckland, who enlisted in Australia and went to the Dardanelles, has been killed in action. Deceased a native of Auckland, and unmarried. His younger brother, Mr. Neil M'Lean, Went into camp at Trentham on Saturday.

At a meeting of tho Hutt River Board, held list evening, Messrs. G. Bowers and W. Knight were appointed delegates to attend a conference of locai bodies to consider the uubject. of rates on Crown Lands. Mr. John Farrell, J. C. WilliajMßon'n representative, arrived from Sydney, by the Westralia yesterday to make final arrangements for the presents* tion of the "Cinderella" pantomime, which is to be staged for the first time in Js'ew Zealand at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday night nest.