PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2490, 17 June 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Francis Bell was last night con- J gratukted by resolution of tho Victoria College Council upon tho honour of kniglttliood recently conferred -upon Mm by His Majesty the King. Mr. C. Wilson, who has served for 18 years on the Victoria College Council, retires under the new franchise. At, last night's meeting of ■ the council a resolution was carried expressing appreciation of his valuable work on the council and regret at liis departure therefrom. Appreciation was likewise expressed of the services of Sir Robert Stout, who has also served for 18 years oil the council. Lance-Corporal Jack Scales, killed in action, was t'he .second son of Mr. G. H. Scales, of -Wellington, and was uorn "at tho Hutt 23 years ago. ITo was educated-at tho 1.-owcr Hutt School and at Wellington College, and for some time before he enlisted was engaged in' farming in the Wairarapa. He laffc as a private'in the Wellington Mounted Infantry. Mr. G. H. Scales's two remaining sons are members of the New Zealand forces. One of these (Private 'Arthur Scales) went away witli the infantry division of the' 2nd Reinforce-' ments, and the other (Spr. Athol Scales), who was a chief officer in fclie Union Company's service when ho enlisted, left recently with the engineers iof the sth .Reinforcement®. Tile late Private Stanlev Collcv, who 'died in tho Wellington Hospital from pneumonia, did not belong to Nelson as previously stated, hut was formerly of Auckland. Tho death is recorded of Mr. J. W. Ohisholm, a well-known resident- of Wellington, iii his eighty-fifth year. ■Tho deceased, who arrived here in the year 1834, has, with the exception of seven or eight yenrs_ spent in Wanganui, resided in Wellington ever since. In his younger days Mr. Ohisholm was actively concerned in volunteering, and was considered to be one of Wellington's crack rifle shots. When Wellington was threatened by an invading force of Maoris from the Wost Const lie was one of a party of settlers who w»nt. out to Porirna to intercent them, hiit the attack was never wado. At the timo of the Te Whiti rising in 1881 he was ft colour-sergeant in-the Manaia Rifles. For some years he was a local nreacher Attached to thp Taranaki _ Wesleyan Clmrnir: Mrs. Oliisholm died oulv a few days' a".o. Of the seven sons Mr. W. B. Chifbolm. telegraph oncrineer, of I Pimedin. and Mr. Stanley Gliisholm. of Tsiand lay, are well-known i" this City. There are also four daughters, all of whom are married. Wellington has lost another of its late residents in the person of Mrs. Susannah Fv"Jvn 7'ridoau McffH.t. relict of the late John Lindesay Moflitt, who predeceased liposome eight years ago, and youngest daughter of the late Captain Fortnnatus Evelyn Wright. Royal Navy, and niece of the late Captain Frnncis Linrdet, R.N. A chat with Mrs. ■ MolHtt, who was eighty-one years of age, was a pleasure, for amongßt her connections were many who have made history. She was' a niece of the la to >Sir Hush Ei'elvn, Hart., Wotton Park, Surrcv, TCuffland, and her grandn'other was tho Comtesse <le Lnmamo»d d'Alhe. who saw such stirrine times dnriug the great French Revolution, when the Comtesso's- brother, th» Due de Lamamond d'Albe, was guillotined. Mrs. Moffitt, has cousins fn-inr at the front, including General Sir Wi"iam Fvelvn O'Ticary, and Colonel T"m Evelvu O'Leary. C.8.. with tne Indian contingent. The deceased lady leaves three sons and five daughters to mourn their loss. Mesdnr'os A. Andrews. W. D. Andrews, F. Reade. Louis Reade. and 'A. ft. F. Moore. The sons are: JTnssrs. '.T. H. C. Moffitt, of Wellington: F«nrv iMoffitt (Auckland). and Albert William Moflitt,. of-Wellington. The' lato Mrs. Moffitt was of a very kindly arid retiring nature. " Mr. C. H. Statham, of Duncdin, has received a cable message to tho effect that his sons, Captain Frank Statham and Private Olive Statham, who are at the Dardanelles, are well.