PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2566, 14 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

| His Excellency the Governor and Surgeon-General Henderson paid an official visit to tho Tauherinikau Camp yesterday. His Excellency tlie Governor is to ho the guest of honour at the Orphans' Club in the Masonic Hall on Saturday evening next. Invitations are being issued by the president (Hon. A. L. Herdmanj. Major H. J. M'Lean (reported wounded) is Dr. M'Lean, of Wellington, who went away with the Main Expeditionary Force, and has been in the Dardanelles since May. He is a brother of Miss M'Lean, principal of Wellington Girls' College.

Lieutenant Clement Marshall Cazalet, who was reported in yesterday's casualty list as having died of wounds, was educated at Charterhouse, and was a member of tbo Charterhouse Cadets. He was the son of Mr. William Lewis Cazalet, of Dean Park Lodge, Bournemouth, merchant. Mr.-W. L. Cazalet carries on business in England, and is also interested in a company which car-, rios on business in Moscow. Lieutenant Cazalet came, to New Zealand two years ago, with the object of farming here. Previous to that-he was for some years in his father's business in Moscow. While in New Zoaland ho was working on the Orari Gorge Stations and also on the Terako Station, in North Canterbury. As he had a knowledge of Fronch, Gorman, and Russian, when the war broke out, Lieutenant Cazalet offered his services to tho Government as an interpreter. While in Wellington he asristed the censors in translating letters, etc. . It- is understood that when ho wa§- wounded he was acting as staff-officer to BrigadierGeneral Erl Johnston. Lieutenant Cazalet made many friends in Canterbury, and was extremely popular with everyone who knew him.

A_ Press Association message from Qhristchurch records tho death of Mr. John M'Laclilan, formerly member of Parliament for Ashjrarton. Mr. M'Lachlau was born at- Androssau, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1840, and was brought up to tho trade of a plasterer. He. camo to New Zealand in tho ship Sebastopol in 1868, and settled on' a farm intlio Ellesmere district. He was a member of the Ellesmero Road Board for many years, and three times unsuccessfully contested' tho Ellesmero election for Parliamentary honours: In 1893 he was returned as member for Ashburtor., defeating Mr. J. C. Wason, who afterwards became jv member of the British House of Commons. Mr. M'Lachlan was defeated in 1896, but won the seat again in 1'899,' 1902, and 1905. To his other activities, as mem-

ber of the Cantevbafy Land Bpard, he added a strong interest in Freemasonry, in which'he held the highest ■ offices. Deceased is survived by a large family of sons and daughters. Detective O'Connor, of Christchurch, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday, in charge of H. Nathan, who had been arrested in Sydney on a charge of passing valueless cheques in Christchurch.

Tho death occurred on Sunday, at the age of 67 years, of Mr. J.'D.'Langdon, a well-known settler of the Tiuui district. The deceased leaves a family of three sons and four daughters. His •brothers are Messrs.* R. L. Langdoii (Masterton). and W. H. Langdon (Hawke's Bay). Dr. N. Guild has been appointed junior house surgeon at the Napier Hospital. Mr. Arthur Alexander, tho distinguished pianist and composer, who is to play tne A Minor Concerto of Schumann with the Wellington Orchestral Society to-morrow evening, has arrived from tho south. He is tho guest of Mr! and Mrs. Bernard F. Page.

Mr. 0. H. Izard, .of the legal firm of I Izard and Weston, returned from a trip to Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa. Dr. David Bedel Sivright, the Scottish football player, who captained the British team which toured New Zealand some years ago, has died at tho Dardanelles. —Press' Association. ' Among the passengers to return; from Sydney T>y, tho Ulimaroa were Captain Thorpe, 1 harbourmaster at Lyttelton; Detective O'Connor, of Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Toogood, of Featherston; and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, of Hawke'a Bay. / Mr. and Mrs. A, E. Kernot returned from a three weeks' trip to Sydney by tbe Ulimaroa yesterday. Mrs. N. F. Willoughby, of ■ Island Bay, has received a cablegram from her Eon, Platoon Sergeant Ernest Robertson Willoughby,.' sth Reinforcements, stating that he has been admitted to one of tho London., hospitals. Sorgoant Willoughby was wounded at the Dardanelles oil August 8.

The death occurred on Saturday last of Mr. William R. Scholofield, who lias conducted a jewellery business for many years in ,contral Maniieis Street. The deceased, who was 52 years of age, leaves a. widow and five children. The Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey (Prima Minister) was at Taihape yesterday. Ho returns to Wellington this tnorning. . The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, who has been on a visit to Dannevirke, will return to Wellington this morning. The Hon. J. Allen returns' this morning from' a week-end visit to Christchurch.

The death is recorded of Mr. James Jago, of Dunedin, a gentleman who has been closely associated with the musical life of that city for some thirty years past, and whose name has probably figured on concert programmes in Dunedin more frequently than any other resident vocalist. Mr. Jago was a contemporary of Mr. Farquhar Young, Misses Rose and Kitty Blanoy, and Mrs. Murphy, mother of Miss Amy Murphy, and was seldom missing from the cast of any 'amateur opera, oratorio, or cantata given in the musical centre of the South Island." About two years ago he , camo to tho North Island for health reasons, but without deriving any'great benefit. He sang "Tho Persian. Garden" song .cycle with tho Royal Wellington Choral Society last year, and made other appearances in Welling, ton, but was not in his true form. Mr. Jago was a splendid character, straightgoing, and of a Bohemian disposition. He leaves a widow..