PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

. » ji Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., is in J the Boweii Street Private Hospital, sufjennE from a- strained knee. Tlio injury is not serious, and it is expected that ho will be' out of hospital about l "io end of the- week. • Dr. Fitchett, C.M.G., who has been s laid tip at his lionie, will leave this morns ing for tlio ,Bay of Islands on ail cxi tended' holiday to recuperate.- lie will - bo accompanied by Mrs. Fitchett. Mr. David Stewart, Wellington manager of tho Union Bank of Australia, 1 arrived back f ronv a ' trip to the Old Country yesterday by tho Ulimaroa. . Mr. S. Spragg, chief of tho Hansard T stair, has been advised by cablegram * that his sou, Captain Spragg, who re- » eeived a .fracture of the left arm by gunshot, is jiow in the Alexandria Gen- . oral Hospital, and is making progress 1 towards recovery. , Mr. P. HaJly, Conciliation Commissioner, left for the West Coast last 3 «vcmiiE on busiuess connected with a - goldmining dispute. Gablo advice lias been received by Mr. A. Asher from his son; SergeantMajor Cyril Asher, who left with the nth Reinforcements, that ho had met at Gallipoli his younger brother Isaac, who is a member of tho Australian - forces. Mr. Isaac Asher left Now Zealand over two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. E. Gear were among ' Jn® passengers to arrive from Sydney by t tho Ulimaroa yesterday. 1 Captain Taylor, surveyor in New Zealand for Lloyd's, arrived back from a- . visit to Sydnoy by, the Ulimaroa yesterday. Monsijjnor Brodie, Vicar-General of Auckland, is duo to arrive in Wellinc--1 ton to-day. - r^ r " Stidolph, of . the Gear Meat • Company, has received a cable message stating that his son, Corporal Fred. ; Stidolph (3rd Reinforcements), wound®d_m the foot and thigh " during tho fight on August 7, was "doing well" in the hospital in Egypt. Mr. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, 3 at Auckland from by . the Niagara yesterday. 5 m 9 ha ' n R?s arc reported in the Post and in ' ■§ ra Department as follow: —Mr. - I. B. Salmon, postmaster, Hawcra, is 1 promoted to the position of Inspector w •» r oß ' Christohurch; Mr. H. c ii. Moore, senior clerk, Masterton, is ap- ! Panted postmaster, Wairoa: Mr. A. E. 3 M Gregor, chief clerk,. Nelson, ap- ■ n ol 'ited senior clerk, Masterton; Mr. W. J. Ooad. chief clerk, Blenheim, to be chief clerk, Telegraph Office, Wellington. ' The name of Lieutenant J. C. Lau--5 der. of the Bth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, has appeared in the 3 nst of casualties. He was wounded in 1 tho fighting on May, 30. Lieutenant Lauder is a son _of Harry Lauder, tho ' well-known Scottish comedian. Leaving i Cambridge University, ho joined the i Argyll and Sutherlands shortly .after, l the war broke out. Mi". W. J. Forsyth, who went into / camp yesterday with the artillery quota of the.Bth' Reinforcements, was on Saturday morning mot by his fellow-officers ?> W'lls and Trust Branch of tho j lubhc Trust Office, and, through the head, Mr. H. Puniell, presented with a safety razor, a silver-mounted pipe, a . writing cabinet (all suitably inscribed), . and several little knick-knacks, useful to the soldier. Mr. Purnell expressed the sentiments of tho staff when ho \ stated how sorry they all were to part with Mr. Forsyth, but it was a timo cf sacrifice, and it was pleasing' to see young.men coming forward so largely to do their duty in defonce of their homes, their country, and their Empiro. lie expressed the hope that Mr. For- | svth would do his duty as well as a solL dicr as ho did in the office, and after the war he would return again with an honourable reoord. Mr. Forsyth uiade no secret of tho fact that it was a great wrench giving up his old associations for . such desperate work in a foreign land,' but ho said the opportunity Iwd come to him, and, being able to go, lw felt it his duty to step out mid ?o !,:'s httje bit as a. soldier of tho Kin;'. Three hearty cheers wore given for'tho soldier. The parents of Trooper Francis Moore, of Johnsonville, and of Oscar Hughes, of Hastings, have been advised that these, two wounded soldier cousins were fit for activo service again, and that they, both left Egypt for tho Dardanelles on July 10. Another cousin, Private Clifford Moore, of Johnsonville, who ■ contracted dysentery at the Dardanelles, is progressing favourably in Egypt. , Mr. John Heaton Rhodes, son of the late Mr. G. H. Rhodes, has been granted a commission in the Army Service Corps. Ho was at Aldershot when tho last mail left. , At.' Te Aroha on Wednesday tho death occurred of a war veteran, Mr. W. B. Maxwell. Ho had had a remarkable career. .He was, born in England on June 22, 1836, and in his youth he joined tho Royal Navy. He served in the Crimean, war in H.M.S. Majestic between 1854 and 1855, in the China war in H.M.S. Shannon in 1856, and in the Indian Mutiny, in Peel's \ Navay Brigade, in 1857 and 1858. Soon after he came to New Zealand and took ; part in the Maori war. He • served under Captain Stapp and Major Atkinson. in 1860 at Pa tea, and under Col. T. M'Donnel, Major Brassey, Colonel Whitmore, aaid Major von Tempsky, between 1865 and 1866.. The veteran, although bordering upon 80 Tears of age, at the outbreak of the war, vol- | unteered for active service, and was delighted to receivo word tliat his ser- , vices had been accepted, and he would ; be called upon when necessity demanded. He held the following medals: — ' Crimea, 3 medals; Indian Mutiny, 1; Maori war, 2; and Humane Society, 3. Mr. W.' Watson (son of the late Mr. D. G. Watson), who has been employed on tho literary staff of the Timaru . '.'Herald," left Timaru by the Tainui, < for Loudon. It is his intention to , join the motor transport section of tho ■ Army Service Corps as soon as lie-ar-rives Home. By tho same steamer Mr. Claude Evans, son of Mr. Morgan Evans, Waimataitai, left with a similar object in view. Both lads were schoolmates tit the Timaru South | Scliool, ' but neither know that tho other was making arrangements to leave on tho Tainui until a fow hours before tho boat sailed. Mr. Henry E. White, the well-known theatre architect of Sydney and Wellington, arrived from Australia by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Ho has just completed three new theatres in Brisbane, - and in Now Zealand is engaged on a new municipal theatre for Hastings, a nicture theatre at Petone, and the now 1 Club Hotel on Lambton Quay.