PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2574, 23 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

In the Legislative Council yesterday the Hon; Sir Francis Bell, stated that the Hon. J. Duthie, who was. granted extended leavo of absenoe from the Council on account of iU-healtli, has so far recovered that he hopes shortly to resume his seat.

A private cablegram has been received in Wellington saying that Major Mathew Holmes,' N.Z.M.0., who Las been at Gallipoli for the last two months' is now convalescent at Malta, after an attack of dysentery, and oxpects to return to the front ma. few days.

It wag reported at last night's meeting of tie Wellington Harbour Board that information had been received of the death, in hospital at Cairo, of Mr. W. L. Skilton, one of the permanent employees of the board who Gad volunteered for active service with the Fourth Reinforcements. _ Mr. Skilton was .wounded' in action and subsequently died of enteric on August 30. Oil the motion of tho chairman, tho board carried a resolution of sympathy with deceased's relatives. - [ Mr. James Hazlett, manager of "The Man Who Stayed at Home" Company,who passed through Wellington yesterday, has been advised that his son, Mr. Richard Hazlett, who went to the front with the 11th Battalion (Australian Expeditionary Force) from Perth, was wounded in the great Sari Bair battle on August 8. Mr. Hazlett has not been advised where his son is located or what the nature of tho; wound is. • Mr. Borneo Gardiner, the oiever Wellington siffluer, who has been kept very steadily in' engagements in vaudeville in England, has been engaged for a six months' tour in South America. Advice was received yesterday that Trooper Alf. Iggulden, son of Mr. Wm. Iggulden, of Masterton, who was prominent iii\boxin<r circles and a good all-round athlete, had been killed in | action at the Dardanelles. News was received in Masterton yesterday, reports our Masterton correspondent, of the death at Russell, Bay of Islands, of Mr. E. A. D. Whatman, brother of Mr. A. P. Whatman, of "Abbotsford," Masterton. The late Mr. E. H. D. Whatman, who was '55 years of age, was some, years ago a prominent footballer. He played for New Zealand against England at Wellington, where he had his leg broken. He was a keen angler arid a good allround sport. He had been ailing for somo time.

The resignation of Captain ■ D. J. Watson as a member of the Wellington Harbour Board was received last night with. regrot. The death of Lieutenant T. M. Grace, 6ays the annual report of the Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club, has removed a fine all-round athlete, a North Island and Wellington province Rugby and cricket representative, and "a good sporty ' News of his promotion and mention in dispatches had oomo to hand, but it was soon afterwards reported that he had been killed in action at., the Dardanelles. The report also refers to the late Private Erio V. St. George, who succumbed to an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, after several weeks' illness' in Wellington. Ho .was one of the first to answer the call, and left with the Expeditionary Force for Samoa. He returned from Samoa, and was about to leave with "Lord Liverpool's Own'' when sickness claimed him.

Gunner Geo. Victor Wakefield Falder, pews of whose death from-cntorio reached bis'parents at Stratford rcccntly, left New Zealand with the 2nd Reinforcements, and was three and a halt months in the, trenches at JJaJlipoli. Deceased was bom in Adelaide in 1893) and educated at Kaikorai School, Du. n ~ edin, Wellington South, Wellington District High School, and Wellington College. He passed the Junior Civil Service examination at the age of 14, and matriculated at 15. Ho left Wellington with his parents four and a half years ago to engage in farming near Strat-. ford. Somo Ivo or sis years ago he was prominent in the Wellington Y.M.C.A. cricket and football teams. Tho late Gunner Falder was keen on outside 6ports and military matters, was a good tennis player, and a sergeant in the local Territorials.

THg members of "The Man Who Stayed at Home" Dramatic Company arrived here from Masterton yesterday, and went on to Christchurch by last evening's steamer. . . * At the meeting last evening of tie Management Committee of the Wellington Football Association a motion of condolence with the relatives of K. Wells,-of-the Corinthian Club, and W. Singleton, of the Hospital Club, waa passed. Both these men were members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and were killed in the Dardanelles.