PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. Jas. 'Allen. (Minister of Do* fence) went south by Saturday night's boat.

Mr. W. 0. Macgregor, who was recently. appointed Crown Prosecutor at Dmiediiy has had' the distinction of King's Counsel conferred on him, states a Press Association message from Dunedin. ' "

A Press Association telegram from Auckland records the death of Mr. William Coleman, a well-known solicitor of Auckland, who died yesterday. He was a brother-in-law of the Hon. A. M. Myers. .

' A cablegram from Sydney; received in Auckland on Thursday, contained reassuring news concerning the condition of Dr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholio Bishop of Auckland. The message read as follows: —"Patient very weak. Had several attacks since Sunday, but heart not affcctod. Doctor most hopeful, and says recovery matter of time."

Major F. B. Mahin, Assistant Q.uar-tc-rniaster-General of tho New Zealand Forces, who left with the Maori Contingent as .captain and paymaster, is now at Malta, acting as commandant of a convalescent camp at Pembroke. His duties involve visiting tho wounded Australians and New" Zealanders at tho various hospitals.

Messrs. Robert Algoe, Holmes, Natnsch, and Swiney, members of the Auckland "Herald" literary staff, have been accepted for the Reinforcements. Mr. E. Nordon, of Christchurcli, who is away on a health trip, writes from San Francisco under dato July 16. Ho says ho audi all tho New Zealnnd Press delegates were, staying at .the' same hotel. He finds San Francisco "rottenly pro-German." Oil tho'voyago from Wellington Mr. Nordon edited, and published "Tho Marama Mail," containing nrach mattor of interest to the Marama's passengers. The newspaper did not live long, but it was quito a financial success, and £15 of its profits are to go to tho Canterbury Red Cross Fund.

Advice has been received in Wellington to the effect that Lieutenant W. J. Clachan has, at Hooge, been again wounded, this timo seriously, by a hand, grenade, on the face and head. London operations have been and he is now convalescent, having regained hiß eyesight. Mr. Richard Evatt, of Wellington, has received a cablegram informing him that his son-in-law, Captain R. W. Wilkinson, has received severe shrapncll wounds iu tho face at the Dardanelles. Captain Wilkinson was in camp at Zeitoun for some months, and only proceeded to tho front three weeks ago, iuinine • the Fifth Reinforcements. Ho was well-known in Wellington as manager of the Neuclia.tel Asphalt Company. He was formerly adjutant of the Fifth Wellington Regiment, ami was with the Now Zealand Force at Samoa last year, and also went through the Boer War as a member of a New Zealand Contingent. Captain i kmson was also a member of the \\ ton Savage Club. Word has been received in Mastertou of the death at the Dardanelles of Trooper Harold Langdon,. son of Mr. K. L, Langdon, of Wai-iti, Deceased, who was about 25 years old, was formerly employed by Messrs. oeaton and Sladden, surveyors.

Mr. Samuel Gilmer, son of Mr. Hamilton Gilmer, of Wellington, left' for London by tho lluahino on Saturday, afternoon for the purpose of enlisting. Mr. Joseph Mandel, of Wellington, has secured a nino years leaso of the Grand Hotel as from August 23 The name of Lieutenant Randa Woodhouse. R.A.M.C. (late of Wc Ungton Hospital), appeared in one of Sir John French's re tout, dispatches m recommended for gallant- and distiuguished service in tho field. Corporal Philip Geo Pearce, of WeiHuston, who is reported wounded for the second time, was formerly in the Valuation Department hore, andjs a brother of Mr. Henry Pearce, of the Public Trust Office. . Ho was a member of the Field Engineers in tlioMam. Body, and had about eight teering experience (in Auckland) to sen-e him w'hen he joined the colours.

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