PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

News has been received thai; Dr.James Mackintosh Bell, formerly Direo tor of the . Geological Survey Department in this Dominion, has been appointed a first captain in the 73rd Battalion, C.E.F. (Canadian Black .Watch, 6th Royal Highlanders).

Private advices received in Welling* ton state that Captain 0. R. f. Johnston,' of Karori (formerly o£ The Dominion literary staff), f now with tho Middlesex Regiment in Franco, was wounded,' though not dangerously, in-the big offensive attack on September 30 last. ; Captain Johnston is now 1 in hospital in London; and making excellent .progress towards recovery. 1 Mr. John Coradine, solicitor of Masterton, and a soldier of the.King with! the Earl of Liverpool's Own Regiment, was yesterday admitted by His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman as a barrister of / the Supreme Court. " Mr. Robert Bell, of the -"'Asliburtoa "Guardian," has been elected a menu ber of tho Royal Economic Society o£ Great Britain. The Rev. T. Howard Smith, who has been lecturing in Wellington in, the interests of tho London Missionary Sociely, has left for Nelson.Private Geo. Luke, son of the Mayor, has beep promoted to be a lance-cor-poral iii ; tlie .Seventh Reinforcements, which will be on parade in" town to-day.-, j • A Press | Association message states ' that tho Timaru Presbytery lias 1 nominated the Rov. J. M. Comrio as Modera* tor of the Assembly.. Mr. Thomas Bush, of .Wellington, hag received a letter from his son, Mr. E.. Pirio Bush, who left Australia for America with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Niblo, that ,he has accepted an engagement to play on tour in "Peg o' My Heart," under Mr. 'Oliver 'Morosco's - management. Miss Enid Bennett (also late of the Niblo Company) will be a member, of .the: same company. . . Visitors staying at the Albert .Hotel are: Miss S. Louden and Mrs.-Guy, of Mr. A. S. Evans and Mr. Carpenter,' of 'Pahiatua; Mr. and Mrs. Cleinons; Mr. R. Williamson and Mr. L. Nelson, of Sydney; Mr. H. French/ Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Gibbons, of To/Kuiti, and Mr. Little, of Martinfiorougb. , . i Mr. Geo.' 'P. Luke", of Hataitai, eldest- sou of the 3layor, and district manager for Messrs!- J. J. Niven and Co., and Mrs. Luke, will leave'on a healthrecruitrag visit to.the Old Country.on Monday nest-.

Mr. C. J. Reakes,'Chief Government Veterinarian, lias-been visiting , Auckland,.; . . . ■ Chaplain-Captain W . M'Lean, formerly minister, of thfi Eoniervill 'Memorial Church, who lias beenappointed to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in succession. to the late Ohaplnin-Mojor Grant) who was killed on tne Gallipoli , Peninsula; has arrived in Wellington.. Corporal H.'D. jVlillgji, of tlio Auckland Mounted Rifles, who was some weeks ago reported wounded, writing from Gazireh. Hospital to his father, wlio. yesicYes at lajjuranga, isays he considers-himself very lucky to be able to state that he is in his old place of abode in Cairo. "We were m action from Friday night till Sunday night, • ho says, "when I got smacked out. lho luclty ones got wounded. \V e gave the gobblers something to remember for a Ions: time. We are gottrng the .best'of food It is just like being born again to see ■ a good - feed coming. aioug. I hope to be well again in a couple of weeks, and will go back to Zeitun camp . among the liorses for a spell to got air easy iob for a while till l ean get back to the firing there is a firing !ino~% go to, as the Turks ought to be finished soon. There ueedyto bo a fe"ime«t they called, the . Auckland Mounted - Rifles, but they will never be soen again in Auckland. I expect we will be attached to. some .of the reinforcements. - I will not attempt to tell you anything about the fight.. ; I: am the only non-com. officer left in our troop. .1 was acting-seTgeant the last day, as our two sergeants were killed. I was using my fifth-rifle when I got the last smack. TliG other four were smashed with bullets in about three hours of the final assault.' Private Horatio Pudney, formerly ai residont of Lower Hutt, who left New Zealand, with the : Main Expeditionary Force, writes from France stating that he is.now a stretcher-bearer with tho Ninth Duke bf Wellington's W.R.R. - ,S. Mr. B. Persival Russell, of tho Royat. • Veterinary College, London, who ,ie; a veterinary specialist on the Btait ot tuo Sol Vet Manufacturing Company, passed : through the City recently on his < vrzy to Palmerston Isorfch. Mr. Russell lms boon commissioned by tiio Sol Vet Manufacturing _ Company to organiso a rotorinary service for the North .Island,-