PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Aboard the training ship Amokura yesterday afternoon, His Excellency the Governor presented the ' Royal Naval Reserve. Officers'. Long Service Decoration to Senior-Engineer Alfred D. Varian, R.N.R. 3Jx. Varian lias a record of over 15 'years'; service in the Nayal Reserve. He j'oiijed the H.M.S*' Duke of Edinburgh in 1900, and served, his time at Portsmouth.' During the Russo-Japanese- war he served as the chief engineer of a Russian, hospital ship. At\the.outbreak of_ the present tyar he volunteered for. active service, but'lias not yet been called upon. ■ The Rev. C. Houcheu; vioar of Te Kuiti, has ,beon appointed chaplain of "Lord Liverpool's Own" Ist and 2nd Battalion. Mr. Houohen'a commission dates from 1908, and during the past year has been, attached;to tho 16th Wa'ikato Regiment. Sergeant Kelly, of tho Manners Street Police Station, received word yesterday of, the death, of lis brother,. Corporal Percy John Kelly, of the Mam Expeditionary Forco. Some time agO i Corporal . Kelly's parents, who reside in Wanganui, were advised that their i son Had'befih lybtiiided in'tho 1 action of August 7. -Litir-'-they' received a postcard from him stating that on the day after his admission to the hospital (place not stated) he was doing well, and did not expcct to bo incapacitated for any length of time. This was the' latest advice until yesterday, when word was, received thai Corporal Kelly had diod from pneumonia at the base hospital at Mudros.' ■. Mrs. Lloyd Jones, of Washington Aveuue, Brooklyn, haa received news of the death of her eldest son, Henry, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles between August 6 and 9. Deceased was serving with tho New South Wales Forces at. the time of his, death, Ho was thirty-four years of age, and a uative of Gisborne, New Zealand. Another brother,. Victor, is at present serving at the front with the' Main Body, New Zealand' Forces. Mr. F ( . Jones, of Charlotte Avenue, Brooklyn, is a, biother of deceased

Mr. 0. R. Dick, • organiser .'of the Boys' Institute Old Boys' Cricket Club,, who is in hospital suffering from a wound received at the Dardanelles, has Jbeen elected a life-member of the club. ' : Mr, W. Clarlison, of Wellington, was a passenger by the Moana, which arrived from San Francisco yesterday. Sergt.-Major Ritzema. left Napier yesterday on transfer ' to Palmerston North. Mr. Williams Hasken, of Napier; leaves Wellington on October 12 for London.. , - ' Mr. Norman Wallace, of the literary, staff of'the "Hawke's Bay Herald," who leaves for Trentliam on Tuesday, was on Wednesday evening the recipient of a money-belt and set of safety razors from the Old Boys of the Napier Technical College.- ■/.,. Mr. Isaac Hyanis, secretary of the Wellington. Bowling Club,' has written to tho president (Mr. J. L. Ledger) tenderihg his resignation on the score of indifferent health. Lieut. D. 'A. Kbnny, who went away to Samoa Jast year with the'-'Expedi-tionary Force and' has since been employed as a transport officer will go into camp shortly'as a lieutenant in the Tenth Reinforcements. Mr. Robert Hope, who has been locomotive foreman at Cross Creek for a lengthy period, and for about 37 jjears .a resident in that railway centre, is to retiro shortly on superannuation. Police-Sergeant H. Nash, who catno down from Rarotonga in charge of the Cook Islanders who are going into camp nt Narrow Neck OVuckland),. was for seme time a member of tho Wellington Police Force. At tho quarterly meeting of the Petone Methodist .Circuit, it was unanimously decided to invito the Rev. Angus M'Bean, of Eketahuna, to take up tho work of the circuit next year. .• ' Tho appointment of Mr. Chrjstoplior Atkinson to be. officer in charge of police at Rarotonga is gazetted. ' A Sergeant Gaffney, of tlio Wellington Police Force, has been advised'that-his brother, Thomas, Vho was reported as having been captured: by the Turks, had his arm shattered in action, and that since he "has been a prisoner it had been necessary for him to have one of his hands amputated. ,