PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

[Vice-Regjl.] His Excellency the Governor arrived from Clnistclrurch yesterday morning. To-day 110 will visit Trentham Camp to inspect the Sixth Reinforcements, lie will be accompanied by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence, and tho 'Minister of Finance! Mr. David Robertson, proprietor ofPhoonix Foundry, and a member ui the Hospital and Charitablo' Aid .Beard; has sustained a paralytic stroke. . Id is condition is serious. The following changes in the staff of tho Post and Telegraph service are announced Mr. T. B. Salmon, postmaster, Hawera," is promoted to ■ the position of Inspector of Post Offices, Christchurch; Mr. H. E. Moore, senior -. clerk, Masterton, is appointed postmaster, Wairoa; Mr. A'. £. M'Grcgor, chief clerk, Nelson, is appointed senior clerk, Masterton; Mr. W. T. Coad, chief clerk, Blenheim, is appointed chipf . olork, telegraph office, "Wellington. ' For health reasons, Mr. AYilliam Crow, private secretary to tho late Postmas-ter-General, has decided to take extended leave of absence. He has for tho last twenty-two years acted as private secretary to various Ministers. Mr. Crow has had thirty-eight continuous public service, having joined the Post and Tolegraplr Department as a message boy in Ot-ago in 1877. Dr. James Boyd, of Auckland, left for Sydney by the Moeraki last evening, en route to London, where he is to be employed by tho "War Office in treating cases of -nervous breakdowns occasioned by the war. - Major A. M. Samuel was tendered a farewell by members cf tho Commercial Travellers' Club yesterday, Mr. George Pi lie, president, occupying the chair. In proposing the. health of Major Samuel, Mr., Pirie congratulated him on his appointment to the command ■ of the Sixth Reinforcements, and re-' 'marked on the good work Sir. Samuel had done as a committeeman of the club.- Mr. W. J. Bridson,- a vice-presi-dent, spoke in torms 'of praise of the work done by Mr. Samuel and Mr. F. W. Manton, vice-president, also added his tribute. Major Samuel-was presented with a -handsome leather suit case, and in acknowledging the presentation expressed regret that lie had not .bscit able to sot a\yuy to fioiit . earlier, Hc hcul offered his, services as soon as-tho war broke out, but had been told to "wait a while." Mr. N. G. Donald, of Auckland,; 'returned to New Zealand from Tahiti by tho Marama-yesterday: Mr. George Portus, .'late advance manager for the Tivoli Follies Company, left for Sydney by, the Moeraki last evening. . ' ■ , Mr. Tlios.' J. "Wallace, "oF-the Don'iiaion Museum,.' has rcceivccl_ word 'that ]iis brother. Private Frederick T. -wal--lace, lias received severe, gunshot wounds in the chest, and has been mitted to No." 15 General Hospital, Alexandria. Private Wallace joined the Fourth Reinforcements. Private advice has been received in Wellington of the death in Nova Scotia of Mr.~ George F. Smith,- who was for - seventeen years assistant secretary of. ■ the Wellington Harbour Board: Born at New Brunswick in.1851, Mr. Smith was a son of '< Mr. William Smith, . Deputy-Minister of Marino for the Dominion. ' On leaving school he joined the Britannia, and rose in the Royal Navy to the rank of lieutenant. Retiring from the Navy in 1878, ■ lie came out to New Zealand with a view to farming, and for six years' was engaged in surveying, sheep fanning, iind wTieat growing in tlie Canterbury district. lii 1885 he obtained employment as draughtsman in.'the; Public Works and.Marine Departments ill Wellington, undertaking special work,_ including a marine survey of the Kaipara -.Harbour and a chart showing tlie light'houses of Now KeaJancl.- Mr. Smith joined tho Wellington- Harbour Board on' June 1. 1890, as assistant secretary, and continued as such until 1907,-when lie voluntarily retired. During Mr. William Ferguson's absence in Europe, Bli-. Smith acted as secretary. Subse-' quentlv he went to Canada to carry on Apple farming. As a mark of respect the flag over the Harbour, Board s offices was flown at half-mast yesterday. Mr. G. H. T. Crook has been' appointed gaoler of His Majesty's Prison at Napier^. In writing to Mr. N. B. Fryday, of Taranaki; of.the death of. his son, Private. E. J. Fryday, Lieutenant Murray Urquhart, of theTaranakiComvpany of tlie Wellington Infantry . Regi- ; nient at the Dardanelles, says:—:"lt is i with very deep regret tliat I write you ' concerning-the death of your son, 10-1072 Private-Edward James Fryday, who died of wounds 011 May 12, 1915. lie was wounded on .April >2U. On that occasion two platoons pf tho 'Taranaki' Company were given a ridge to-hold, which they did for two nights . and a day. ' Wo were . subjected. to a very ' i heavy frontal ;nd enfilade lire. The / men stuck to the position heroically, ' although it was practically untenable. Your km was wounded in tlie forearm, and was hit iu'four places in- the cliest, elbow, hand, and tliigli. I understand ho was bandaging a wounded Australian at the time lie l was hit. _ Your soil 1 proved himself a good soldier, both in camp and in the firing line. He is much missed by his comrades and myself." 1 Cablegrams lave been received from . Brigadier-General Russell and Lieutenant Beamish to the effect that both are jyell. —Press Association. BREAKING UP THE SPELTER RING GERMAN WORKS IN WALES BOUGHT. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 11. A City group, lieadcd by Tilden Smith, has purchased the German com- ' bine's Swansea Valo Zinc Smelting Works. It is tlie intention to incrcaso the output of spelter from 5000 to 25,000 tons ]ier annum. Supplies will_ he drawn from _ tho Burma' zinc mines. The plant ; is a facsimile ol tho German plant. ' City people consider this acquisition an advantage over tho Zinc Coloration and Broken Hill Companies. CHOLERA SERUMS SUCCESS OF SERVIAN DOCTOR'S METHOD. ,!By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, August .11. Dr. Potrovitch, of the Servian Army, :3ias reported to the Academy of Sciences |tliat under his treatment of cholera by • serums, according to the Dunbar method, thero were .only two deaths out of 1153 slight cases. Out of 90 moderate attacks none were fatal; out of ■157 serious cases there were only seven. Thus,, tho total percentage was 1.55 compared with 9.4 for avora-go cases, and 58 for serious cases where they weio not treated by this system. NATIONAL SERVICE AGITATION IN BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi London, August 11. The Right Hon. Ellis J. Griffith, lato Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office,, and Sir Leo Ohiozza Monoy. ■M.P.'s, in a'letter to the "Daily Mail, vrgo the Government immediately to institute national service.