PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2487, 14 June 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

News has been received in Gisborno that Lieutenant Clyde Evans, son of Mrs. J. T. Evans, has been killed in action in the Dardanelles. Deceased, " who was formerly an officer in the mor--1 cantile marine, studied law and was ; admitted to tho English Bar. He onlisted «t tho outbreak of war, and was gazottod commanding lieutenant in tho Royal Navy. j Dr. J. j{. White, of New Zealand, 1 has been made a Follow of the Royal College of Surgeons.—Press Association ] ("Times" and Sydney '"Sun" services, b Corporal P. G. Tattle, roported as ; having been killed at the Dardanelles, i was the sixth son of Mr. George Tattlo, ;of 8 Lipman Street—tho oldest living - native of Wellington. Deceased was > educated at tho Clyde Quay School and f at Wellington College. Thence lie went ) to tlie Normal School and was for the , past six years sole teacher at the ' Longbush School, Wairarapa. His ■ brother, Q.M.S. F. J. Tattle, is with ; the sth Reinforcements. Consequent upon tho recent death of • Mr. U. A. Baxter, of Christchurcli, Mr. i R. L. M. ICitto, of Napier, has been i appointed to the management of the 1 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile • Agency Co. there, and Mr. John Smith, of the head office of tlie company, at ■ Wellington, proceeds to Napier very 3 shortly to succeed Mr. Kitto. 1 At the Orphans' Club on Saturday r a tribute was paid by Mr. E. A. Batt ' (Chief Orphan) to tlie memory of J Orphan A. T. Perry (late of tlie AVellington Gas Company's employ), whose I death at tho Dardanelles is reported. Their comrade,- ho said, had died in a noble cause, and his deatli was a J glorious one. The condolatory motion ' was passed by all tho members standing " in silence. A motion of condolence ; witli Orphan William Jennings, accom- ! panist to the club, on account of tlie ' recent sudden death of his father, was I similarly passed. Mr. George Orr, of the staff of ! Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., was on ' Friday eveniug presented with, a wrist watch from his fellow employees, on ' the eve of his departure to join the 1 Expeditionary Force now in training at Trentham. A Press Association telegram from I Christchurcli records the death or Mr. . Frank Graham, 75 years of age, es- . president of the Canterbury Chamber I of Commerce. Deceased, who was Canterbury manager of the Commercial Assurance Company, was a well-known ) resident. I The death is announced on June 12 [ of Mr. Basil William Muter, aged 86, - one of Canterbury's earliest settlers, j The deceased, who was a son of Lieu- : tenant-Colonel Muter, wae born at Douglas, Isle of Man, and arrived in Canterbury in tho Sir George Pollock in 1851. His surviving children are: Mr.Percy Muter, F.T.A., Actuary of the Government lusurauco Department, Mr. Stanley Muter, Mrs. Cyrus Homersham, and Mrs. Forbes. A Press Association message on Friday from Sydney announces the death of Mr. Alexander Iluie, father of Sir. E. C. Huie, of Christchurch. The lato Mr. Huie was r»n old settler in the Lasblan district, New South Wales. Born in Edinburgh in 3 834, he emigrated to Victoria in '52. After trying his luck on the Ballarat goldfields, he settled down to farming at Benalla, Victoria, and afterwards crossed over to New South Wales. The deceased gentleman was a brother of Mrs. M. G. Burn, of Dunedin, formerly principal uf the Otago Girls' High School, and later of the Waitaki Girls' High School. The deaths axe reported of two wellknown residents of Takaka district (says the Nelson "Mail"), in the persons of Mr. P. Hunter, of Long Plain, who arrived in Nelson in the ship Thomas Harrison in 1842: and of Mr. R. Soper, of Puramahoi, who was accidentally drowned in a creek on his property on Wednesday week. It- is surmised that deceased was overcome by a stroke, and fell into tho creek. He arrived lti New Zealand in 1852. The death has occurred of Mr. Andrew Clarke, a well-known resident of Devonport, Auckland. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland, in 183S, and lame to Auckland by tlie ship Ganges, in 1863. When war broke out, Mr. Clarke left a farm, at Otahuhu to join the cavalry. The war over, he joined the police force, and was one of the J mounted escort when the Duke of EdinI burgh paid his visit to Auckland. For some years, he was in charge of the " Newton police station, and was afterwards transferred to Papakura. Later, " he was promoted to the rank of ser- !■ geant, and for a while was in charge 1 of the Auckland water police. From ' there, he was transferred to Dunedin, ' returning to Auckland again some years afterwards, where he rose to the rank 3 of senior-sergeant before his retirement 3 11 years ago. f Sergt. Donald K. Pallont, who is r reported as having been missing since s May 28, was well known in Welling- , toil. . Ho was a teacher for some time in the Mount Cook Boys' School, after which he spent two years at the Normal £ School, where he was very popular. He t was appointed to the mastership of one f of the schools_ near Pahiatua, which 8 position he resigned at tho outbreak of 3 the war. Sergeant Pallont, who left ! with the First Expeditionary Force, r was slightly wounded at Egypt, but ro--3 covered in time to accompany the troops . to the Dardanelles.