PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Very Rev. Father KcogU, of St. Patrick's College staff, was taken ill at .I?Mia- Bay on Sunday, and it was deemed advisable to bring him into town at once by motor-ear. 'His condition is said to bo improving. News has been received in Wellington that Quartermaster-Sergeant Fred Harvey, of tho Australian Expeditionary. Force, who was at one time on tlie staff of the New Zealand Insurance Company in t'his City, was killed in the Dardanelles on Juno 28. He was born in England. From Wellington lie was transferred to Rangoon, where he severed sis connection with the New Zealand Insurance Company and went to Australia. While in Wellington lie was married to a daugliter of Mr. D. T. Stuart, wlio pre-deceased him. Mr. George Harvey, the accountant of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's braneli in Blenheim, is his brother. _ It is understood (says a Press Association telegram l'rom Duncdiii) that Mr. C. MMienzie,' at present travellinginspector in tho Wellington district, lias been promoted to take chargo of tho Otago district of the Public Works Department. No information is yet available as to 'which district tho present engineer in charge in Dunedin, Mr. J. M'Eunis, is to be transferred to. A Press Association cablo message has been received from Sydney stating that Brigadier-General M'Cay, commanding tho 2nd Australian Lifantry Brigade at the Dardanelles, has been wounded for the second time. 'Phe nature of his wounds was not stated. Mr. C. M'Conncll, who recentlv resigned the conductorship of the tfapier City Band, has reconsidered his decision aiid consented to act for a ■ further term. Lieutenant C. S. Geddis, of Napier, has received orders to report- at Palmerston North for service with tho Mounted Rifles. A vote of sympathy to Mr. J. Kebblo in t-he loss of his only son at tho Dardanelles -was passed at yesterday's-meet-ing of the-Education Board. The Hutt Valley Trotting Club aro tendering a. farewell at Palmer's Hotel, letone, on Friday night to Major A. M. Samuel, who is leaving for the front.

Mr. Samuel Hill, of AVcllington, las received a cable message from his eldest son, Corporal W. J. R. Hill, sth Reinforcements, stating that he ■ and his brother (Corporal Leslie Hill, Main "New Zealand Forces) were leaving Egypt for tho front to-morrow (July 26). Corporal Leslie Hill has just rccovored from wounds received in tho Dardanelles.

Staff-Sergeant-Major S. Mellows, of th Auckland Defence Office, has been promoted temporary lieutenant and appointed assistant director of supply and transport, Auckland, in place of Captain W. 0. Page, wlio is proceeding to the front with the Eighth Reinforcements,

. Mr. John Allen, of Auckland, arrived 111 Wellington 011 a visit yesterday. Mr. James Muir, of the staff of Joseph Nathan and Co., has received a letter from, his son, Dr. Roy Muir, stating that he now occupies the position ot senior staff surgeon 011 tlie Rod Cross steamer Dongola, at present engaged in tlio Mediterranean Soa. Tho steamer is woll staffed and splendidly equipped, and the whole staff is a very happy family.

111 the annual report of tiio Welling-ton-District Teachers' Institute the following list is given of teachers who liave enlisted:—J. A. Cowles, 8.A., .served at Samoa; W. T. M'Caw, served at Samoa, .now at Dardanelles; W. T. Longhurst, served at Samoa; \L. A. Rogers, served at Samo.i; W. I'. Dudson, served at Dardanelles; 11. P. O. Davie, served at Dardanelles; A. F. D. East, served at Dardanelles (Ambulance)-; W. H. Sainton, sorved at Malta; H. H.'" Sutton, served in -camp; O. A. Craigon, F. Trolley, It. Edwards, N. A. Foden, F.. Stafford, W. E. Fossette, D. G. Ball, H. G'owdy, W. Okeby, C. J. Bagle.v, J.- A. Wilson, J. Duggan. Tho roll of honour of teachers of the Wellington district is:—W. J. Clachan, teacher at Takapau, British section (wounded); P,te. J. B. Foss, assistant teacher at Levin (wounded at the Dardanelles); LanceCorporal John E. Mills, 8.A., assistant teacher at Levin, Main Expeditionary Force (killed in action at the Dardanelles in Juno); F. W. Moth.es, assistant teacher at Petone 'wounded at the Dardanelles) ; Sergt. D. K„ Pallant, teacher at Marima, Main Expeditionary Forco (reported missing at the Dardanelles on May 8) ; O. It. Russell, probationer at Carterton (wounded at the Dardanelles) ; Lance-Coroparl P. G Tattle, teacher at Lougbush, Main Expeditionary Forco (killed in action at tlio Dardanelles in May).

The late Mr. Charles Coote, whose death was reported last week, was born in Auchiiacloy County, Ireland, in 1841. He arrived in New Zealand from Victoria iii 1863, and assisted in founding a branch of Messrs. . Younghusband's wholesale drug business, now known as Kempthorne-Prosser's New Zealand Drug Company. In -1870 lie joined ths firm of P. Haymaii and Co., Dunedin, and for over forty years • has been in that firm's employment, with the exception of two years spent in Australia. The late Mr. Cooto was well known in t'ho South Island, and for many years represented the firm on the West Coast. For tho last few years previous to his retirement from active service 110 was well known as departmental manager for P. Hayman and Co. at their Wellington branch. The late Mr. Coote was keenly interested in the Congregational Church; ho was associated at Moray Place, Dunediu, and latterly with Constable Street Congregational Church. He was also deeply interested in matters musical, and was tlio founder of tho first Philharmonic Society in Dunedin. Tlie deceased »is survived by his widow, three sons, and two daughters, Mr. ,F. J. Coote (Melbourne), C. E. Coote (Queeiistown), H. H. Coote, of tliis city, Mrs. A. R. Dyson (Nelson); and Sirs. H. 0. Mac--farlaue, of Napier.

The passengers who arrived at Melbourne a few days ago by the Orontes included Mr. Victor Grayson, an English Socialist, and an ox-member of the House of Commons, who has'come out to Australia on a lecturing tour, tho subject of his addresses being the effect of the war on economics. Mr. Grayson states that he 110 longer calls himself a Socialist, as. 110 feels that one result of the -war will bo to briiifj about a complete readjustment of political faiths.