PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 21 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) left on a . business trip to Napier and Gisoorne by tho Monowai last evening. He is due back at the end of the week. A private cable message reoeived in Wellington states that Major' H. J. M'Lean, Army Medical Corps, who went away with the Main Force and -.was wounded on August 26, left the Dardanelles on September 5, and arrived in England at the end of last week. N He is now under treatment in the Second General Hospital in London. ' , Dr. T. C, Moore, of Napier, receivod a cablegram yesterday morning , announcing that his son had died from wounds received on September 11. A Press Association message from Sydney, received last evening, states that Cecil Hsalv, the Olympic' swimmer, has enlisted. The death occurred suddenly on Sunday evening of the Rev. H.'S. Gascoigne Beard, of St. Peter's Anglican Church, Terrace End, Palmerston North. Tho deceased was a son of Dr. Beard, formerly of Masterton. He was only 28-years of age, and l had not enjoyed good health for eome time.' He leaves a widow. .Private advice, has been received by cablegram that Sergeant P. G. Taylor, of tho 6th Wellington Mounted Rifles, is in Exeter Hospital, suffering from . shrapnel. wounds in the ankle. Sergeant Taylor had only recently return- .- i ed to the trenches from Lemnos, whero he had been invalided for a severe.attack of dysentery. His brother, Lieutenant Henry Taylor,' was killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 7. Cable news has been received to the 'effect that Private Alfred East, formerly, an assistant-master at the Clyde Quay School, who left Now Zealand with the Red Cross section of the Main Body, left Malta on Tuesday last for England. • His wound has healed>

Mr. A. Veit-cli, a member of the City Council, who lias been visiting Sydney, returned by the Moeraki yesterday. Mr. Bert Royle, representative in New Zealand for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., who recently suffered au attack of pneumonia, has left on a health-re-cruiting visit to ~tlie South Sea Islands. Ho will probably be absent from Neff Zealand for 1 some seven weeks. Mr. Cyrus Williams, engineer to the Lyfct-elton Harbour Board, returned from a visit to Australia by the Moeralci. Ho was accompanied by his wife. Mr. S. Kirkpatrick, of Nelson, also returned by the same steainbr. Privates Johnson and Mercer, vrho wore invalided to New Zealand from Egypt, arrived liere yesterday by the Moeraki. Both are pneumonia convalescents. Lieutenant.E. Ballard Dalby, R.N.R., of Hawko's Bay, has been appointed executive officer and gunnery lieutenant on H.M.S. Carmania. / Sergeant Eric M'Carthy, reported "missing, believed, to bo killed," was a brother of Mrs. George Shand, of Oriental Bay, Wellington. Ho left with the 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles in the Main Body, and' was promoted to sergeant shortly after arriving in Egypt.Sergeant M'Carthy was among the first mounted men in Egypt to volunteer for active service at the Dardanelles. The death in Gallipoli of Sergeant Hubert Hamilton was referred to in feeling terms by the Rev. A. 31. John-' son iiv his sermon at St. Paul's ProCathedral on Sunday morning. Sergeant Hamilton had been a member of St. Paul's Choir, and was the first secretary of St. Paul's branch of tho Church of England Men's Society. Ho was an qxpart signaller, and he felt it his duty to place his services at the disposal of the Empire. He was, 6aid Mr. Johnson, the first of those who had been active church workers in the parish "to be called to higher service in God's great kingdom."

Mr. A. Seifert, of Palmerston North, arrived from Sydney by the Moerakl yesterday.'