PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tie' officers of H.M S. New Zealand have cabled their congratulations to Sir Francis Bell (Minister of internal Affairs) on the knighthood conferred upon him. The death is announced of Mr. J. Staples, who, with his brother,' Mr. W. Staplos, founded Staples's Brewery, Murphy Street, in 1866. Deceased, who was in his seventy-seventh year, retired from active control of the brewei'y some years ago. M. Lucien Nojienaire, a Belgian wool buyer, who, was well known in New Zealand, is on Service with the Belgian Army, News, has been received in Christchurch that on March 10 Jio was safe and well. Mr. R. P. Giblin, who has been manager at Nelson for Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen for. many years, has been appointed to the charge of the firm's branch at Wanganui. Mr. 0. R. Bendall, general manager of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, returned from a trip to Australia yesterday. Mr. J. B. Olarkson, of J. B. Clarkson and Co., returned from a business visit to Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Many will condole with him on the .sad news that met Ihiin on his airrival, his son; Corporal Gerald Richard Clarkson, of the Engineers . having boon killed in action on May 24. . Mr. Charles Berkeley is in charge of .Williamson's Pantomime Company .which arrived from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday iftorniag. The Oamaru Presbytery has unanimously sustained the call • from. St. I'aul's Church to the Rev. Samuel Hunj.er, of St. Stephen's, Ipswich, Queens-' land (states a Press Association telegram received last evening). Lieutenant F. 0., H. , Jollie, of the 2nd Eiigt Surrey Regiment, reported killed in action in the North of France, was boni at Patea, Taraiiaki, February 11, 1890, and educated afc Cheltenham College, England. From there he went to tho Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and .was gazetted lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment in 1910, and served with, the Second Battalion in liiirma'h. He .vas promoted lieutenant on February 1-1, 1912. Tho regiment was in India when the war broke out, and proceeded to Europe early in tho campaign. Lieiitenant Jollie had been employed as regimental transport officer ana was killed oii April 27 in tlie operations in the North-east of France. Liautenaiit joilio was ,the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Jollie, of the Indian Aroiy, and . was a. grandson of the late Edward Jollie, of Beachcroft, Southbridge, formerly secretary of the Provincial Council (Canterbury), ahd M.P. for Cheviot. Throe successive frosts have been experienced in .the Wairarapa. On Tuesday morning 13 degrees of frost \ were registered. The pastures aro suffaring a great deal, and the outlook for the winter is not as bright as it might be. . ■