PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) loft for Auckland by the Main Trunk train la6b night. He will be absent from Wellington until the end of the week. Pte. William Walter Howard Wood, who died at the Wellington' Hospital, •will be buried with military honours at Karori Cemetery to-day. He was a son of Mr. J. G. Wood, of Wellington South. Ho enlisted in the 4th Reinforcements, but he contracted septic pneumonia at camp, and had been ill hospital suffering from this disease for 26 weeks. Henry, who was operated upon for a'ityondicitis'a week ago in the Davis Street Hospital, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Mr. Michael Flannery died at his residence in Arlington Streot on Saturday night. Mr. Flannery for the'whole of his active life was in tho New Zealand prison service, which lie entered at Dunedin in 1863. In 1897 he was niifdo gaoler at Hokitika, but soon afterwards he -was promoted to take charge of tho Napier .prison. This post he held until his retirement six years : ago. Mr. Plannery, who was 78 years of age, leaves a ivife and three grown-up daughters. Mr. F. Earl, K.C., has been elected president of the N.Z. Cricket Council for tho season 1915-16. i Captain Short, of Taumarunui, who was invalided home some time ago, and who has been on a visit to that district, has been ordered to report for duty in about a month. Captain Short was recently married. Mr.-W. E. Fuller, chairman of the' Wellington branch of the New -Zoaland Shipowners' Federation, will leave for Auckland to-day to attend the • annual meeting of the main body, which' will be held to-morrow. Dr.' J. Lewis Reed, of the District Hospital, Waipiilairau, has (says tho "Hawko's Bay Tribune") received an appointment as eurpeon at the base hospital, Egypt, and Dr. George Coats takes his place at the hospital.. Dr. Ueed loaves by . tho Marama. . Mr. John Campbell (son of Mr. Tho®. Campbell, of Karori), who took partin the quelling of the Singapore mutiny early in the present Tear, lias been granted a. commission in tho Navy.