PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2488, 15 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

i [ His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir ■ Robert Stout) is expected to return from Napier to-morrow evening. His ] Honour Mr. Justicc Chapman left for , Nelson last evening. , Tho Hon. TV. Fraser returns to Wel- . lington by the Alain Trunk express this ' morning. , Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., acting on medical advice, is relinquishing work j for six months. —Press Association ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services). Mr. John Sidey, father of Mr. T. K. Sidey, M.P. for Dunedin South, died yesterday, aged 93. The deceased gentleman came to New Zealand in 1848.— Press Association. Tho remains of the late Gunner Kennedy, N.F.Z.A., of tlie Southland Battalion. who died in Hospital as the resuit of illness contracted after returning ' from Samoa, were interred in the Karon I Cemetery on Saturday. The deceased was accorded full military honours. a The drivers, horses, and gun carriage - were provided by the R.N.Z.A., the fir- - ins squad by the members of the com- - pany to which deceased formerly be- - longed. Yesterday afternoon the fun- - eral of the late Privato Stanley Colley, formerlv of Nelson, who died in the Wel- ! luigton Hospital from pneumonia, took n ' place under similar conditions, i. Mr. Charles Hiil, senior, of Island Bay, celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on Saturday. To mark the event, II i!} 0 , mem ' 3ers °f the Te Hiwi Bowling u-n. tt ' lo are . Privileged to use Mr. ,v ftiU s green, visited his rosidence, and l ; P- the course of a most enjoyable evenpresented "the father of the club" e with a handsome spirit tantalus. The e presentation was accompanied by all good wishes, and was acknowledged in l e the happiest manner by the recipient. e The late Sergeant-Major Archibald Jas. Merle Bonar, of Hokitika, and Prii- vate Hugh G, Bonar, of Koiterangi, > Hokitika, who were kdled in action on i- April 28 and May 8 respectively, were n sons of the late Hon. James Alexander Bonar, of Hokitika, a former member a of the Legislative Council, and the first rj and only Superintendent of the Westi- land Province. Tlie late Hon. Mr. L . Bonar was keen on soldiering, and was e a volunteer officer during the whole of r his active life, rising to be a lieutenant--0 colonel. He was honoured with the d Victorian decoration and the New Zear u land long-service medal. The Bonar, e family is well known on the Coast, where their untimely, deaths will be sincerely deplored.' e Colonel Will, N.Z.M.C., who has been e in Egypt with the New Zealand Expedis tionary Force, is returning to New Zea- . iand. invalided. • News has been received from tho i. front that Corporal Edward Gordon Weight, eldest son of Mr. E. F. Weight, , of the Government Printing Office, naa been wounded at the Dardanelles. Corv poral E. G. Weight served his time with Mr. G. Winder, and later on wa9 18 a woll-known commercial hardware traveller. He served about eight years in i- the old submarine miners company, of n which he became a popular officer. He i- was also for a time in the D Battery,' )f and when war broke out was in the employ of Messrs. John Edmonds and Co., , Dunedin, being stationed at Timaru. ■' Ho ioined the No. 8 South Canterbury. , Mounted Rifles, First Reinforcements. s a The services of Dr. L. B. Burnett, of r e Rangiora, have been accepted by tha d War Office, and he will leave for Engn land on July 1, by the Paparoa, acting ]y as medical officer of the ship, s, Mr. Thomas Campbell, of the Greyre mouth Post Office, has been promoted " to Wellington. Mr. Campbell was wellc_ known as a musician on the Coast; being i. the leader of the Greymouth Citizens' 1 Band. ts Mr. R. Mothes, of Petone, has red ceivcd a cablegram from his soil, at the ir Dardanelles, Mr. Fritz Mothes, stating ir that tho latter has been slightly woundd ed and is doing well. A cable message has been received i- from Private Len Donovan, of the Weld lingtoil Infantry (Ruahine), section-of it the Main Expeditionary Forco at the it Dardanelles, stating that he is "all well." The death occurred at the residence -i of Mrs. Gazeley, Lansdowne, on Satur- • day, of Mrs. C. Erickson, ail old re sident of Mauriceville. The deceased, " who was 56 yews of age, leaves a family !n of twelve childreiii jg . The Wairarapa branch of the Teach- 1 JS ers' -Institute on Saturday passed a _ motion of condolence with the relatives ,y of the late Mr. P. Tattle, master of the Longbiish School, who has died in acj. tion at the Dardanelles. s. Private William Dobson (Otago Bat•i- talion), who has been reported as miss--3r ing, is thought by local Trades Union - officers to be the late secretary of tho n, Wellington Plumbers' Union. Private .; Dobson went aWay on the troopship as V, a working plumber, and enlisted in r, Egypt. Sir. A. Stubba, chief _. clerk at the ■ j Napier Railway Station, who left yesters > day morning on transfer to Auckland, s - was the recipient of a clock and 6ilver--3i ware given by his fellow workers as a token of their esteem. 1' Mr. J. Munroe, Hastings manager of '' the Bank of New South Wales, left M Napier yesterday morning on a three 5; months' holiday visit to Australia. ' Mr. J. R. Boose, secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, has been opf pointed Commissioner to travel the world to increase the Institute membership.—Press Association ("Times" and 111 Sydney "Sun" services). Corporal . John G. Petersen, of the {: Auckland Battalion, killed in action at " tho Dardanelles, is the youngest son of y Mrs. J. Petersen, of Park Road, Car. n terton. r ' Corporal F. 'G. Reid, son of Mr. '• Reid, North-E-ast Valley, was reported j] missing. ' However, his father received cable advice that his son was wounded, and two subsequent cablegrams have y reported he was progressing favourably. —Press Association. ■ 6 In the list of missing from Mav 1 to' May 3 is the name of Sergeant "Frank , M'Donald, son of Mr. M'Douald, of r Green Island, Otago. It appears that Sergeant M'Donald subsequently rejoined his regiment, as his father ret ( ceived a cablegram a few days ago statt ing his son was well and had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.—-Press 11 Association. t