PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2536, 10 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

By yesterday's English mail camfi the news that Mr. James .Mackenzie, 1.5.0., Under-Secretary for Lands, and formerly Surveyor-General for tho Dominion, has boon elected a Follow of tho Royal Geographical .Society. The Hon. AV. 1). S. Macdonald, Ministor of Agriculture and Mines, will leavo 011 a visit to Gisborno this morning. He will return to AYcllington probably about the end of the week. Reports received by cable to-day from Sydney in reference to Bishop Clcary's condition are, says a Press Association telegram from Auckland, somewhat more reassuring. Tho doctors stato that although tho nerve shocks are not diminished in frequency or intensity they have not so far affected tho heart. Tho death occurred at AVcllingtou Hospital on Sunday evening of Trooper Arthur F. L. Crowhurst, of the Earl of Liverpool's Regiment of tho Expeditionary Force, the causo being cerebrospinal meningitis. The deceased, who was only 20 years of age, was a soil of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Crowhurst, of Roxburgh Street, Newmarket, Auckland, and had been keenly desirous of getting to the front from the first call for men. He is 0110 of a large family of boys, two of whom, Messrs. N. and A. Crowhurst, are already serving their country.. Tho funeral of deceased, which will bo conducted with full military honours, will take place ill Auckland, tho parents who were in attendance here during their son's illness being desirous that tlio intermont should be made there.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Riddiford, of Featherstou, with their children, will leave for England by tho Rotorua on September 9. Mr. Riddiford intends to offer his services to tho War Office. Mr. James Hazlitt, who has been manager of the Criterion Theatre, Sydney, for J. 0. AA'illiamson, Ltd., for some time past, arrived ill Wellington yesterday as manager of "Tlio Man AVho Stayed at Homo" Company. Lieutenant A\ r . H. Johnson, of the Fifth Reinforcements has cabled his father that ho lias arrived safely in Egypt. En route the vessel in wliich his section travelled called at Colombo and Madras (at which port tho horses were landed). Mr. Arthur P. Hopkins, manager of tho Belfast Freezing AA'orks, who has been on a business visit to AVelliugton, left for tho south last evening. Mr. Paul Latham has arrived in AVellingtoii to make arrangements for the display at the Town Hall of the kiuemacolour picture "With the Fighting Forces of Europe." Tho members of "Tlio-Man Who Stayed at Home" Company arrived from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday.

Many will regret to learn of t'he death at, his residence, No. 8 Rixon Grove, at 9.30 a.m. yesterday, of Mr. Fred Diglit, New Zealand representative for the Manufacturers' Agency, Ltd., of Sydney, and formerly of the local staff of Sargood, Son, and Ewen. Mr. Diglit Lad been ailing for, the past ten months and death was not altogether unexpected. The late Mr. Diglit, who was a native of Fitzroy, Melbourne, was of a genial disposition, and was popular in local musical circles. 110 wns a niomber of the old Wellington Amateur Operatic Society, and tlio Alabama. Coons, a once popular amateur minstrel company. Ho was also a member of the Wellington Bowling Club and Commercial Travellers' Club. Mr. Diglit, who was 44.years of age, leaves a widow but 110 children. The funeral will take place at 10 a.m. tomorrow. At the meeting of the Lower Hxitt Borougli Council, Fireman T. Fleet was presented by the Mayor with a 5-years' servico medal.

At the Ranfurly Hall, Petone, a valedictory "social," mider the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, was tendered to Superintendent E. W. Andrews and Sergeant F. Rajstrick, who will be leaving shortly for the front. The Mayor of Petone, who presided, presented the guests with a wristlet watch each on behalf of the local corps, and expressed the hope that both of them would return to New Zealand safely. Mr. Hugh D. M'lutosli, of t'he Tivoli Theatres, Australia, who recently visited Auckland and Wellington, intends to roturn to New Zealand shortly for tho purpose of making himself acquainted with Christchurch, Dunedin, and other towns he lias not yet had the opportunity of visiting. Already he has made arrangements for several further tours of the Dominion. Sergt-.-Major Welch, of Greytown, has (says our correspondent) been promoted to Lieut.-Quartcr-master, and will be ail officer on the transports between Wellington and Egypt. Ho leaves on Monday for Wellington, where he will be on duty till tho first transport departs. Sergt.-Major Morrison, of Masterton, will temporary fill Ins 'position in Greytown. Mr. Edmund Burke, the operatic ' baritone, who was in Australia threo years ago with the Melba Opera Company, lias joined the National Guard jn Canada, and as a lieutenant of his regiment is camping near Toronto. A well-known Canterbury resident, Mr. Edward Mulcock, died at Sumner on Tuesday morning. He was born at Hartficld, Peverels, Essex, 7S years arro, and was educated at Groat Baddou Grammar School. Ho oinigrated to Australia and came on to New Zealand in tho early sixties, and connncnccd dealin" in cattle. Later lie took up land atTTlaxton, where ho lived for a number of years. He held office in tho Raiapoi Fanners' Club and tho Northern A. and I'. Association, and was tor a long tuna chairman of the Maiidcvillc and R<tugiora Drainage Board.