PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2491, 18 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Stout) returns to Wellington from Napier this evening. The Prime Minister stated yesterday that the term of the appointment of the lion. T. .Mackenzie as High Commissioner for New Zealand in London had been extended by one year. Mr C. W. Jones, chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, returned from the south yesterday morning. The only officer who has joined the Maori Contingent from Otago is_ Lieutenant S. Price, of the 14th Regiment. He will be followed in a few days' time'' by Sergeant Spencer, of Bluff, and another non-commissioned officer yet to bo selected. - On the occasion of their departure from the local Land and Deeds Registry Office to go into camp with the Seventh Reinforcements at Trentham, Messrs.. W. E. Brown and H. Frood were last week the recipients of tokens of esteem from their fellow Departmental officers. Sir. Bridges, District Land Registrar, in making the presentation, referred to the manv good qualities of the recipients, and on behalf of the staff extended best wishes to the departing officers. A presentation was also made to Mr. F..O'Reilly, of the Survey Branch of the same-office, who joined the Seventh Reinforcements at'the same time. Liout. W. E. Carter, 3rd, Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, who returned to Auckland on furlough on May 8, has now .fully recovered from the effects of •tho accident which incapacitated him shortly after tho arrival of the main force in Egypt. Ho expects to return to tho front with the Sixth Reinforcement Contingent. Mr. Ralph Wilson died on Tuesday, aged 69 years, at his residence, Khyber Pass, Auckland. He came to Auckland in the ship Viola, which arrived in Auckland in 1865. Sir. Wihon was amongst the settlers brought out by the Provincial Government for the purpose of settling the Maori lands confiscated after the Waikato war. Deceased cleared his section at Wairoa South of heavy bush, hut later on started as a baker at Onehunga, his partner being the late James Leslie, founder or the Leslie Orphanage. He is survived by his widow, five .sons, and three daughters. Dr. Frederick G. Shinn, who is visiting New Zealand shortly as the examiner of the Associated Board of tho R..A.M. and R.C.M., is a doctor of ,rmsic in the University of Durham, a Fellow of the Royal' College of Organists, and an associate of the Royal Collego of Music, at which college he was | formerly an exhibitioner, at the time when Sir George Grove wa6 the director. He studied under Sir Walter Parratt, Sir Hubert Parry. Sir Frederick Bridge, and Mr. Franklin Taylor. On leaving tho Royal College of Music he was appointed organist and choirmaster of Sydenham Parish Church, and this post he still holds. Dr. Line and Dr. Margaret M'Cahon have been appointed physicians on the honorary staff of the General Hospital, Wellington, and Children's Hospital respectively. Before the ordinary business of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, was proceeded with yesterday, a resolution was carried sympathising with the Minister of Defence (the Hon. Jas, Allen) in the loss ot his son, who was killed in action at the front. The I board also expressed sympathy with two members (Messrs. Freeman and Moore) who recently received news that their sons had been wounded. The resignations of Drs., D. F. Myers, J. A. Marshall, and S. Haslett, house surgeons, and Dr. W. M'Caw, honorary physician, Children's Hospital, and Sister B. Huddlestone (whose services have been accepted by the military authorities) have been accepted with regret by the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. A motion of sympathy to Councillor J; G. Smith in his recent bereavement was passed at last night's of the Onslow Borough Council. The following visitors are staying at Barrett's Hotel Mr. O. and Miss Smith, Palmerston North; Mr. J. Carter, Palmerston North; Mr. W. Kerino, Palmereton North; Mr. S. Wachron, Palmerston North; the Misses Crawley, Wanganui; Mr. and Mrs. S. Walkley, Hamua; Messrs. Scotland and Turner; Miss M. Burke, Dunedin: Mr: L. Thompson, Auckland; Mr. H. Death, Auckland; Mr. W. Tompsitt, Otaki. The promotion of an old-time footballer, Air. R. Malcolm, to a position iu sergeant in the Sixth Reinforcements at Trentham will be welcome news to many old Rugby players. Sergeant Malcolm's son went to Samoa with the first force and on his return joined the No. L Stationary Hospital. Two youn<j Aucklanders, Messrs. Eno Caldei- and Nonnan Davenport, left by the Makura on Tuesday for England with the intention of studying aviation and offering their services to the British War Office. Sapper Richard Hopkins, of the' NewZealand Engineers, who died of wounds received at Gallipoli, possessed personal courage and pluck in a notable degree, and mid frequently been the means of saving life. It is hot much more than a year aeo that he went over the Auckland Wharf after a young lady (a passenger by the Manaia), who had been crowded overboard with a portmanteau in her hand." Sapper Hop. kins's brother John left with the Second Reinforcements, and another brother, Samuel, is now in camp at Trent ham. Mr. Isaac Allen, senr., an old resident of Upper Plain,' Masterton, died at the local Hospital on Wednesday morninc. He arrived in New Zealand in 1874, and had resided in Masterton evor since. He was sixty-nine years of age, and leaves a family of three sons and two daughters. Mr. H. H. Wilson has been appointed clerk of the Warden's Court and Roceiver of Gold Revenuo at Motuoka. The appointment "of Mr. Edwin Hall as official visitor to all prisons m the Dominion is gazetted. Mr. C. Holdsworth, managing director of the Union Company, arrived from tbo south by the Maori yesterday morning. I =====

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH RIDERS—AND WHY. It lias sometimes been said, witli much truth, that the business test i 6 the b«t test of any motor. War is the grinimest business of mankind, and tho military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant R. E. Schofield, R.E., senior instructor of tho Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:— Nearly every dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed tlii'ougi my hands, and I am therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine aro in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away the favourite, and it has yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its well-earned repute. ... I may state that 50 per cent, of th'e machines here are B.S.A.'s." A .motor-cyclist with.' the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the goods. I never havo to touch, it. They aro the bikes, ray boy. They knock the and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to the samo effect. We are landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A.'s es s.s. Marlboroueh this week, and can Rive immediato delivery. lliey are ideal machines for cither «010 or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. The h.p. is 4},' and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmerston North: Sutherland and Rankitie, Wei. lington; Tourist Motor Co., . Hastings, Asenta for B.S.A. Motors,—Advt