PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 21 July 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

'Advices reoeived from His Grace tJoadjutor-Arclibishop O'Shea, who is liow m America, are to the effect that after leaving Rarotonga a concert was held on board the Marama in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. His Grace presided and made a patriotic speech. Tho' concert was highly successful, and tho collection amounted 1 to about,£3o. •. ;

Information has been received in Wellington ■ that Dr. Walter Fell, of this city, who went Homo some .months ago with, the intention of offering his services to tho Imperial authorities, has received a commission in the R.A.M.C.

Cable advioe has been received by Mrs. l Hornby, Vivian Street, that her son, Private Arthur Hornby, of the Ist .Australian Expeditionary Force, who was reported wounded last May, is now convalescent, and is. rejoining his regiment. ' '

•News was.received) yesterday (says our 'Masterton correspondent) of the death at Heliopolis of Corporal George Jackson, son of Mr. George Jackson, of Masterton. Deceased, who was 24 years of-age, enlisted in Canterbury. He received his education in Masterton, where he was highly respected. .

Drs. Wliyte and Pigeon leave Wellington very shortly for England for the purpose of reporting themselves to the 11.A.M.C. for duty. Dr. Pigeon is to 'leave Wellington on Saturday next. Mr. Charles Adair, of Gisborne, is a •visitor to Wellington. > ■..v Cable advice just received from Malta - announces that Trooper Erio A. Neill is'pronounced out of danger.' Trooper Neill has been at the'front'for nearly two months, having left Egypt-on May 9 with the machine-gun section, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, He is the youngest son of Mrs, ,W.- G.. Neill, Aorangi, Feilding. i . Mr. M'Kenzie, who has been associated with the. Wellington South School for. the past 19 years and has now been .promoted to.tlje headmastership at Karori, is to te the guest at a social to bo given by the pupils of Wellington South School'and their parents, to"morrow, evening./ ' The'.Hon.' J: G. W. Aitken' has .consented'to 'preside; and , a presentation will be made to the guest |of the evening. • . , ( -Messrs. W.- Matheson, W. J. Sim, and D. G. Sawyers, who were members pf the Samoan Expeditionary Force, and 'who subsequently accepted civil positions in. the Administration of the Island, have returned to. New Zealand, - having resigned then- positions-with, the intention of proceeding to the front. •They arrived at Auckland by the Tofua on Sunday. ' . - The death of Mr. Frankknd Valentine, an old resident, of Wellington, ooourred yesterday.morning. Deceased, . wtjo was seventy-eight years of age, ar-rived-in Wellington'in the early days. Ho was brought up to the Bea t and in after years was .connected with the Magistrate's Court here. He was also » licensed victualler in this..district for" some time. Mrs. Valentine died about two years ago. • Mr. son (Mr. F. H. Valentine) is a, chemist in the Auckland district, and ono of deceased's daughters is married to Mr. 'John M'Gill, of W. M'Gill and Sons, Wellington. . 1 %

. Mr, W. T. Quinton, whose death in Sydney was recorded yesterday, was brought up in Australia, and was for some_ time a student at the Congregational Training College in Melbourne, his intention being to enter the ministry, but owing to the state of his health ho was obliged to abandon tho idea. About 20 years ago lie settled in Wellington, and_ was' in the employment of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains and Messrs. Warnock and Adkin, drapers, and he was also for some time m the Hon. George Fowlds's establishment in Auckland. His health had not been robust for many years, and for some time beforo his death, his condition was such as to cause his relatives arid friends much anxiety. A fortnight ago last Friday he left Wellington for Sydney, and on Thursday last Mrs. Quinton went across to Australia to rejoin him, but arrived a day too late! The late Mr. Quinton, who was about 63 years of age, was respected by all who knew him. i He took a prominent part in the affairs of tho Terrace Congregational Church, and in former years was one of the deacons. His family

. consists of a son and three daughters. / The death is reported at tho Davis Street hospital of Mr. L. G. Mackay, _■late secretary of tho "Wellington Invest-, ment Trust and Agenoy Company, whg recently returned from a trip to the Old Country. Mr. Mackay had been rather seriousiy ill' for some time past,•.'and his object in going to Loudon was to , consult specialists. It was found that they could do nothing for him, and he was confined to his berth throughout the voyage back to Wellington, and from the steamer was taken to. the private hospital. The deceased was the son of tho late Judge Mackay of the Native Land Court, and his mother is still alive, a resident of Nelson, where Mr. Mackay i was born. There, too, he was • educated, primarily, and - at tho Nelson College. He camo to Wellington in . 1838 r as an officer of the New Zealand V Insurance Company, under Mr. R. M. Simpson, late manager of the Phoenix Insurance Company. In 1891 he joined the Investment Trust and . Agency Company, of which he was accountant mid secretary up' till a. year ago. Ho was unmarried. Of. a quiet, retiring disposition, Mr. Mackay was held in popular esteem for his many personal qualities, and as a member of the Wolling- ' ton and Wo'lleslcy Clubs, the Star Boat- ' ing Club, and the Wellington Savage • Club his demise will be deplored. .His brothers and sisters are: Mr. A. H.

Mackav, of tho-Government Service; Wanganui; Mr. 13. 0. Mackny, of Te , Kuiti; Mr. TV. J.Mackay, of Queensland; Mrs. Fry, of Fcilding; and Mrs. ; Roberts, of Hobart. 1 Private Bertram Depma, who was amongst the Australians who wcro wounded in the Dardanelles, was born •in New Zealand. Private F. W. Bubb, nlso wounded, was well known in New •Zealand. —Press Association. Visitors staying at the Albert Hotel are:-Dr. arid Mrs. W. Hill, of Picton; Mrs. and Miss Vera Pearce, of Sydney; and Mr; R. M'Beatb, of Dunedin,