PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2537, 11 August 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. M'Nab was .sworn in as Minister of Justice by the Go/ornor at Christchurch yesterday morning. Constable Baskin, of the Mount Cook Police Station, has been transferred to the To Nui Station (Masterton). The death is reported from Timaru of Mr. J. Buckley, whose health had been giving causo for anxiety for some time past. Tho deceased was prominent on tho turf for some .years as an owner, the. best horse which carried his colours being the dual Auckland Cup winner, All Red. Mr. Buckley had been in Australia for somo time, and was on tlio homeward journey when his death took place.

Mr. Konrad Kane, the well-known chief guido of tho Canadian Alpine Club, who was with the Mount Cook staff during tho paSt season, is an Austrian naturalised in Canada. Ho has rrturned to Canada, aiid joined the Anibulanco Corps of the' Canadian forces. Mr. George Robertson, Supervisor of New Business, Government Life Insurance Department, has received advice that his oldest son, Roland, a corporal in the 3rd. Battalion of tlio Seal'orth Highlanders, was wounded at tlio front, and was recuperating in the military hospital at Boulogne. A later communication notifies that ho had recovered, and was returning to the firingline, somewhere in France. Corporal R. Robertson was formerly in business in Wellington :as a wino and spirit merchant, and was' a very talented amateur entertainer.' ■ 1 i ■ - Councillor W. J. 'Thompson has been advised that his son Sergeant H. W. Thompson, who was reported wounded, was shot in the leg. His wound is nob a serious one. At present he is in a hospital at Malta.

Mr. James Hall,y, of Cambridge, has received advice that his second son, Corporal Charles Hally, succumbed on July 20 to wounds .received in action at the Dardanelles. Corporal Hally was wounded shortly after the landing was effected at Gallipoli, and was conveyed to Cairo,*" whero it was understood "'he was progressing favourably. It is thought that possibl.v ho recovered-suf-. ficieiitly to again go into the firing line, and died as tho result of further wounds. Corporal Hally, who was about 28 years of ag«, was n.goqd runner and footballer. Mr. and Mrs. Hally liavo two other sons on active service. Mr. J. R. Kessell, of Port Ahuriri, lias been elected to the vacancy on'tho Napier Borough Council vice Mr. J. W. Williamson, resigned. There wero no other nominations. Mr. and Mrs. Elmlie, of Geraldine, have received word by private cablegram that .their sou, Trooper Hamilton Elmelie, wlio was badly wounded at the Dardanelles, and lias been two months in tho Abbassia Hospital, Cairo, is now convalescent and staying with his relations in England at North Park, Episom Downs, Surrey. Councillor George Frost (chairman of the Reserves Committee) is suffering from an attack of lumbago. Mr. .Tas. Tucker, an old resident of Clive. died yesterday morning at tho age of 66. His health had been failing for. a considerable time. Mr. H. T-. Revell, M.A., of King's College, Auckland, who has been appointed first assistant-master at the Napier Boys' Higli School, graduated at Canterbury College. He .is only 30 years of ago, but has had valuable experience, and takes a keen interest in athloiics. Mr. Harald A. Bowden has arrived in Wellington' to make arrangements for tho J .local season of. "A Scrape of the Pen." . ■ £ !