PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 24 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer returns from Auckland this morning. The Hon. It. H. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral, left Lyttelton for Wellington by the Maori last evening. Mr. T. N. Brodrick, Commissioner of Crown Lands at Wellington, has been appointed Under-Secretary for Crown Lands, to succeed Mr. James Mackenzie, who retires on superannuation. The appointment is made by the Public Service Commissioner. Mr. Thomas Noel ■ Brodrick was born in London in 1855. Ho was appointed assistant surveyor in South Canterbury in 1877, district surveyor in North Canterbury in 1895, Mid. inspecting surveyor and land officfgmA at Gisborne in 1906. Since then he hasr* held the office of Commissioner of Crown Lands in Ha wife's Bay, Canterbury, and Wellington. Archbishop Redwood left Lyttelton for Wellington by the Maori last evening. The Earl of Meath's youngest son, Captain Ernest Brabazon, of the Grenadiers, was killed in France. Tho Earl has three other sons in the ( ' :'>y. — Press Association. The Rev. Father Clarke, who recently resigned the chaplaincy of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Pousonby, on aocount or ill-health, has been appointed by the Archbishop of Brisbane, Dr. Dunne, to work at Helidon, a township in the parish of Gatton, 29 miles from Toowoomba, Queensland. Mr. J. B. Hine (member for Stratfcrd) and Mrs. Hine arrived from the north last evening and will take up their residence hero during the session of Parliament. Mr. E. Nordon, secretary of the Canl terbwy Licensed Victuallers' Association, will leave Wellington for San Francisco to-day on a holiday trip. Mr. W. T. Ward (a brother of Sir Joseph Ward), who lias been Chief Postmaster at Nelson for the past four and a half years, was farewelled by tho people of Nelson on Monday on the eve of his departure to assume the duties of Chief Postmastor at Christchurch. Mr. \V. Gob. until recently Inspector of Savings Banks, is Mr. Ward's successor in Nelson. Captain Jack Graham, who has flva times been in the finals for the British amateur golf championship, has been killed in Belgium.—Press Association. A private cable message announces that J. J. Addison, the tennis player, was killed in action in France. —Press Association. Visitors staying at tho Albert Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. D. Thomas, of Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Freeborn Parsons and Miss Parsons, of Kaikoura; and Mr. and Mrs. P. Mills, of Christchurch. A military funeral was accorded yesterday afternoon to the remains of Private R. H. W. Olliver, of D Company, sth Reinforcements, who died at Wellington Hospital on Sunday from pneumonia. One officer, and a firing party from deceased's own company, and the Trentliam Camp Band attended. Tho interment took place at Karori Cemetery with full military honours, tho coffin being borne by a gun-carriage and draped with the Union Jack. Mr. Haydn Beck, the Wanganni violinist, who has just returned from London, leaves for Wancanui to-morrow morning accompanied by bis father, Mr. J. L. Beck. Dr. W. C. W. M'Dowell has been reelected, without opposition, a representative of the Auckland District Court of Convocation on the Senate of tike New Zealand University. Mr. H. S. Richards, Christchurch, Rhodes Scholar for 1915, leaves shortly for active service. Dr.- Danes, of Levin, has, says the "Horowhenua Chronicle," received cabled advice that his brother has been wounded during the military operations / •In South Africa. Mr. Jas. A. Gilmour, son of Mr. Alexander Gilmour, East-horpe, Hawke's Bay, has passed his final law professional examination. Mr. Jno. Duggan, who has been recently appointed to the new Brittomart Street School, was the recipient of several tokens of esteem upon the occasion of leaving Waipawa. Mr. Duggan took a keen interest in civic and patriotic matters, and was prominent in the Hawke's Bay Educational Institute. A Press Association message received from Christchurch states that the following members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives left Lyttelton for Wellington by the Maori last evening:—Hons. J. Paul, R. Moore, H. F. Wigmm, D. Buddo, and C. A._ C. Hardy; Messrs. H. G. Ell, J. Nosworthv, J. Colvin, J. Dickson, E. P. Lee, G. Scott, J. M'Combs, T. IL Sidev W. Downio Stewart, L. M. Isitt, and *P. C. Webb. Mrs. Henry Eardington, whose death was announced on Monday, was a very old resident of the Auckland district. She was born in Devonshire in 1824, and had therefore attained the ripe age of 91 years. She came to New Zealand with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smart, 72 years ago, in 1843, by the ship Blenheim. In 1848 Miss Smart was married by the first Bishop Selwvn at St. John's, Tamaki, to Sir. Henry Hardington. who died in 1887. Mrs. Hardington had no family. For about- twenty years after her marriaee she lived in Auckland, and sincc then at Ono hunga.

THE B.S.A—FAVOURITE WITH Mllff. TAPiT DISPATCH lIIDERS-A.\"D WHY. It lias sometimes been said, with much truth, that the business test is the best test of any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind, and the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant ft. E. Schofield, E.E., senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has Bono to the front lias passed through my hands, and I am therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine are "PAV '9i«3[u«a P"" I>u»H3n;ng t tflioji no} 'qo.ltuplsr.lll3 'euttipy 'Vuoiogjo A'nnwspno.u puu jooja in favour. Tho B.S.A. is by far awaj 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 the 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 have to touch it. They aro the bikes, my boy. They knock the Agents for B.S.A. Motors.—Advt. — and any other make vou like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other lelters from the front, all to tho lington; Tourist. Motor Co., Hastings, same effect. We are landing 20 of tlia latest model B.S.A.'s es s.s. Marlborough, this week, and can give immediate delivery. They are ideal machines for either solo or side-car service, and their re-liability is famous. The h.p. is i\, end the three-speed countevshaft gear U fool-