PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

•The Rev. Father Mah'oney, of Hastings, arrived' in Wellington yesterday evening. -■ ' ; • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns, of Auckland, arrived in' Wellington on Thursday to join the Bteamer lonio on route for London. . * . ■ Mr. Justice Denniston has: recevied Jetters informing him of the, promotion of his son, Sergeant J. Geoffrey Denniston, to a,; commission in his own regiment; King Edward's Horse. Lieutenant Denmstrin joined this Territorial Regiment while an undergraduate at Cambridge before the beginning of tho war, and has continued in it over since. He, with some other old boys of Christ College, declined to volunteer for commissions when the opportunity was offered; to the regiment, preferring to jtick to his regiment. He -v was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and as Such availed himself of the opportunity iof the illness of another sergeant to get_ into the, first" detachment of, the regiment which was sent abropd, reaching France in May, last. He was recently informed by his commanding' officer that more officers were wanted for the reserve of the regiment, and was offered and accepted a- commission in it. He is now in England completing his training. Lieutenant J., L. H. Turner, son of liieutehant-Colongl Harcourt. Turner, •has, according to advice'received locally, been awarded tho Military Cross. He has been serving, in the Ist Division ,with the Royal Artillery in France since [August, 1914, and was mentioned . in flispatolies in June. ' Dr. S. L. Haslett, late of the Wellington Hospital staff, is leaving Wellington. to-day for London by the Waimate, to offer his services to the Imperial Government. Mrs. J. A. Haslett, Dr.- Haslett's mother, is at present in .Wellington to' see her son off, '