PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2535, 9 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

[Vice-Eegji.] His Excellency tho Governor and tho Countess of Liverpool arrived ill Christchvyoh from the North on Saturday morning. Tlioy attended the intercession service ill the Cathedral yesterday, and will visit tlio Metropolitan trots to-day, and the Grand National Meeting on Tuesday, returning to Wellington on Wednesday. 'A' cablo mossago has been received by the Primo Minister from the High Commissioner stating that Lieiitenaiit-Com-niander B. C. Froyborg, D.5.0., who was reported wounded on July 20, was admitted to tho New Zealand stationary hospital at Port Said on July 27, with a severo shrapnel wound in tho abdominal wall, and has been successfully operated upon. Captain G. C. Hart, for many years assistaiit-suporintomlent of tho Sjha'.v, Saviil, and Albion Company, in Wellington, and a. familiar figure about tho waterfront, now lies in tho Wellington Hospital, having recently, suifercd. a parniytic 6eizura,

Mr. F. M. Barnett, of Christohurch, and Colonel R. J. Collins, C.M.G., of Wellington, have been selected president and vice-prcsideut respectively of tho Dominion of Now Zealand Bowling Association for 1016-16. The association mmibers 200 clubs, with a membership ol' 12,000. The next championship tournament will be held at Christchurch in January, 1916. Mr. S. George Nathan returned to AVellington on Friday from a visit to Auckland and R'otorua. Archdeacon AV. A. TJthwatt, of the Melanesia l .! Mission, arrived in Auckland by the Southern Cross on Friday. Ha has suffered severely from intermittent fever, and will visit England before re* suming his duties. The Defence Minister has been advised by telegram that Surgeon-General Henderson, who is to assume control of the New Zealand Army Medical Services. sailed from Marseilles on his way, hero on August 1. Ho should, therefore. reach tho Dominion early next month. Dr. Stanley Addison lias resigned the position of resident house surgeon at the Auckland Hospital in order to proceed to tho front with tho New Zealand Medical Corps. Three Christchurch hoys who recently left for Sydney to enlist in the Australian Force (states the Christchurch "Press") arrived in Sydney on a Tuesday, passed the examination immediately, and entered Liverpool Camp on the .Saturday, although tlioy could have gone in at once had they so desired.After a week in camp comes the news that tlic three of them have been pro- 1 moted. Their official titles now Acting-Sergeant W. P. Guiney, Acting* Corporal D. Donald, Acting-Corporal Ai H. Guiney. Tho Rev. H. L. Hart, of tho Molan- 1 esian Mission staff, who has been grant-* od six months' leave of absence aftoi* five and a half years' service, was a passenger by tho Southern Cross, -which arrived at Auckland on Friday. He will proceed to England. 'The Hey. Archibald G. Brown, formerly of the East London Tabernacle, who u at present in Brisbane, will (states s, northern paper) visit New Zealand this month, and will take part in the diamond Jubilee services of tho Auckland Tabernacle, which commence on Sunday, August 29. Mr. Carlyle Ferguson, who for the past two years has been editor of the "Tenuika Leader," passed_ through Christchurch last week on his way to Suva, Fiji where he takes up the editorship of tiio "Fiji Times." Mr. R. Archibald, ledger-keeper ail the Bank of New South Wales. Westport, has been transferred to Celling-' ton. Messrs. Malcolran Gordon M'Arthur* and Jas. Henry Ryburn, solicitors, were admitted as barristers of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Cooper at Auckland on Friday. Dr. C. J. Wood, Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Auckland by tho mission steamer Southern Cross on Friday. He returns to tho Islands in four weeks' time. Mr. T. E. Roberts, deputy-registrar of the Supremo Court, Dunedin, has been appointed ofiicer-in-cliarge of the intestacy branch of tho Public Trust Office, Wellington. Senior-Sergeant J. J. Cassells is at' present in Wellington on holiday.leave. Ho goes south by the Maori this evening. , Colonel Charles Ryan (of tho Australian Expeditionary Forces) is now convalescent, after dysentery, and is returning to the Dardanelles at the earliest moment possible. Mr. Yincenzo Almao, who came out to Now Zealand forty years ago, and was for some years.a resident of Wellington, died at Napier mi 'Tuesday last. Deceased was a native of Italy, and was seventy-live years of age. He has left family of nino. One of his sans C C. B. Almao) is manager for Me • ,2. Veitch and Allan, Cuba Street, -...I n, daughter is Mrs. James N. Scott, of AVeliington. Private Jack Fowler, who in to-day's casualty list is reported as having died of enteric, was a member of the Samoan Expeditionary Force. On returning from Samoa he joined the ranks of the 4th Reinforcements, together with a number of other returned "Sarcoans.' Before enlisting Private Fowler was employed by Mr. J. Downs, tobacconist, Willis Street. Ho is a son of Mrs. C. W. Fowler, of Inglewood. Mr. J. J. Firth, lessee of tho Albion Hotel, Courtenav Place, who was knocked down by a motor-car on. Friday and taken to tho Hospital, had recovered sufficiently to return home on Saturday. He is recovering satisfactorily from tho shock tho accident caused. News of tho remarkable escape of his son, Driver Arthur Hickson, of the New Zealand Field' Artillery, at the Dardanelles, has been received by Jlr. K. Hickson, for many years m the Treasury Department at Wellington. He and several others were taking a gun into action when a shell hurst close by, and all but ho wero killed. He escaped without a scratch, hut the horses wore wounded. Mrs. F. B. Smedloy, Park Terrace, AYc-llington, has received cablo advice that her son, Lieutenant Charles I'. Smedley, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, who was admitted to a hospital in Alexandria on July 8, having been in the firing line at the Dardanelles since the beginning of May, is progressing favourably. ' Tho deatii occurred at Ifaikoura on Wednesday of Mr. Edgar George lato Gooch, who served as a midshipman in tho Black Sea Fleet aurmg the Crimean AVnr Mr. Gooch was 78 years of age, and leaves a widow, ono sou, and one daughter. A message from Petrograd m the American papers, dated June -0, announces the death of.Sergius Ivanovicli Taneiev, the music composer, formerly director of the Moscow i>ons&rvatoirc. He studied the piano wh Rubinstein, and composition with Tschaikowsky. He was a . woll-knonn concert performer all ovor Russia, and ranked high as on exponent of the works of Tschaikowsky. He also arranged for the piano many of the orchestral works of Tschaikowsky, Glazounow, Arensky, and others.