PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2549, 25 August 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister stated yesterday iu tlie House of; Representatives that tho appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Rhodes as tlie Inquiry Officer to go to Egypt would bp an honorary one. Colonel Rhodes would bo allowed travelling expenses, and ho would also be allowed the services of a secretary. It is understood that Mr. W. Crow, recently Mr. Rhodes's secretary, when he ivas Postmaster-General, will go to Egypt with him on this special service. Mr. G. R. Sykes, M.P., who has had an attaok of soarlet fever, resumed his seat in the House yesterday. Tho Chief of the New Zealand General Staff (Colonel Gibbon) visited tho Feat her ston Military Camp yesterday. The : Town Clerk of Wellington (Mr. J. R. Palmer) has gone to Christchurch' on business. He is expected to return to Wellington on Friday. Dr. A. L. Singer, of Gisborne, is proceeding to England as surgeon of R.M.S. Tainui in place of Dr. M'Bride, who cams out in the vessel. Tho two members of Parliament, Mr. W. Dowriie Stewart and Mr. T. E. Y. Seddon, who have volunteered for active service, were present in the House last night- wearing the uniforms of private soldiers in the infantry. Captain Taylor, Lloyd's Surveyor at Brisbane; arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Monday. A cable message has Been received by Mr. Henry Wright that his son Reginald, an Wellington College hoy, has been seriously wounded in the attack on Suvla Bay, and is now lying danaerously ill in the Gezireh Hospital. He had only just gone back into the firing lino after recovery from a former wound received at the landing at Gaba Tepe last May. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Navy League yesterday, a motion was passed in appreciation of tho services of the society's late treasurer, Mr. J. M. Butt. In a Perthshire paper by last mail is the announcement of the death, of the I'Rev. James Haynes Cameron, a native of Kincardineshire, at his residence, Glasgow Road, Perth, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Cameron was for some years Presbyterian minister at Lawrence. He returned to Scotland about 25 years ago. The members of the Karori Defence Riilo Club entertained Pres. H. Marshall and presented him with a handsome tea and coffee service to mark the occasion of his marriage. Opportunity was also taken, of wishing exclub champion G. C. Low God-speed and a safe return.-. Rifleman Low wont into camp yesterday with the Sth Reinforcements. Whilo superintending -work of loading the'Shaw-Savill liner Tainui last evening Mr. G. Sinclair, chief stevedore for the company, was seized with an epileptic fit. He was removed to his homo iii Upper Rata Road, Hataitai, and on inquiries being made early this morning ho \ps reported to be in a serious condition. The death occurred at Island Bay on Sunday of Mr. Francis J. Brogan, aged 54. Deceased, who was a native of, Wellington, was for many years in tho service of the late .Air. C. B. Izard and Sir Francis Bell when t'lioso gentlemen practised tho law in partnership in this City, and subsequently he was with tlie firm of Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers, solicitors. Later on ho was licenseo of the Princess Hotel, Molesworth Street. J-lej has left a widow and a grown-up family. ' Private W. A. Bloom, of. A Company Ist "fronts, last Friday received word from Melbourne that liis two brothers and two cousins were killed lighting with the Australians at tho Dardanelles, also that his father was dead. Last Saturday he received a cablegram saying his mother had,died oil Wednesday. Private Bloom has two sisters nurses with the Australians at tlie front. He himself served right- through tb<3 South_Africa).'. War with iho.Soitl'li 1 Afl'inail Licht Hui'ijOi