PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

"His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, who has been visiting America, is now on his way back to-New Zealand'. He is due in Auckland from Vancouver 4>y thei Niagara on October 18.

'. Chaplain-Captain Blamire's, /formerly superintendent. of' ;the .Wellington .■ tral Mission, underwent a slight operation at Alexandria last" week. It was quite successful. •' > • ■

Mr. David Robertson has so far re--covered from his recent'illness ks to be able to take occasional walks of limited duration". Ho does not expect to bo able, to resume his .business duties for some time tb come.'

Nulla Roberts, a well-known New South Wales .Rugby _ti"nion three-quar-ter, has been.killed ill action. He has several times played against New Zealand teams,—Press Association, -

The Right Rov. Dr. H. W. Cleary,' Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who-returned from Sydney by the' Makui'a, had been away : for five, months, during which ' time he had been in a critical state of health, as .the result of a surgical operation; -The Sydney specialists were somewhat doubtful as to the ability of their patient to endure a voyage so soon,' but as the Bishop was anxious to return-to his homo they consented on the Understanding that ;he should taken an. absolute rest of three months. Dr. Cleary was; accompanied hy the Rev. Father Keogh, who went from, Auckland to join him during the most .critical stage of his illness, some two months ago. Fortunately the Bishop is a good sailor,' and tho effects of the trip were distinctly ; benoficial.' . ! The operation l and subsequent treatment, are pronounced eminently successful, and it should be only a matter of time wlion' Bishop. Cleary is ; restored to his former health and vigour. " •

' Mr. J. S. Watchorn,-of Palmerston, has received advice that his ) nephew, 'Acting-Sergeant R. M. Watchorn, of the 3rd Welslr Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical' Corp.Sj has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for gallant conduct and devotion to duty on May 13 at Ypres. i

. The Rev. Father. Brennan, parish priest of Taumaruniij, has his duties as chaplain to the 7th Reinforcements, and is now iii camp at Trentharn.

, Mr. H. G. Hill returned to' Wellington from Auckland yesterday afternoon;

Mr. Hunter Macandrew, Otago Raijways District Engineer,'. has been notified of his transfer .to Wellington. His succcssor at Dunedin is' Mr. F. J. Jones,'who has recently had charge of the construction works at Auckland, and before that was District Engineer at Wanganui. .

Mr. D. B. Smart," of the ; staff of the Napier Technical - College,;: has volunteered for service on' the hospital ship Marama. For many years Mr. Smart has. been superintendent of the Napier Branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. , '

Colonel Ryrie, commanding the Australian Light. Horse at the Dardanelles, has been wounded in tliG neck. Tlie wound is not serious.—Press Association.

Mr. W. Ncill Spragg, soil of Mr. Wesley Spragg, of Mount Albert, intonds proceeding; to England to offer his services in the war aviation corps. ..■'

Major H. 0. Nutsford, /N.Z.M;C., who left with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force as second' in command of the Otago Mounted Rifles, lias been appointed to'the command of the regiment, to succeed Colonel Arthur Baucliopj killed in action.

Miy Crichton-Stuart (a. member of the British: House of Commons) and Mr. Rudyard Kipling's son John (aged 17, who was in . delicate health, and persuaded Lord Roberts to nominate him for the Irish Guards),: have ,both been Killed in action.—Press Association.

. Signaller J. T. ;Saville, of the 15th Battalion,- . Australian Expeditionary Force, arrived in Auckland by the Malcurii, from; Sydney,-and proceeded to Kaikobe to visit' his parents. Signaller Savillo enlisted at. Brisbane, and was wounded about nine days after landing at Gallipoli. He was carrying messages along: the trenches—the nature of tho country making signalling operations impossible—when a splinter from a, •shrapnel shell struck him in-the groin. Ho will return to .the front in about a month's time.;' ■■■".'