PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2640, 10 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Brigadier-General Rnssell has replied to the Defence Minister's, congratulations' upon his recent promotion: "Thanks for congratulations. Honour entirely due to fine work of New Zealand Mounted Brigade." Mr. R. Triggs. who has lately been in indifferent health, at one period having been somewhat seriously ill, left on a holiday visit to Sydney yesterday. Dr. Fauike has received a cablegram announcing that Messrs. Fred Nichols and Henry Benge, of Greytown, have received commissions;, in tho Flyirfg Corps, and that Dr.a'Beckett M'Cartliy lias received a commission as captain in the R.A.M.C. ' • ; Information has just been received that Mr. D. H. S. Riddiford, of Featharston (son of the late Mr. E. J. Riddi.ford). who'left for England some time ago, lias been offered,'and has accepted j a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Lieutenant W. Jones, assistant-mas-ter at the Napier Main School, has enlisted.

A Press Association telegram from ' 'Gisborne announces the death of thoj Hon. Wi Pero, : after a . short . illness.' The deceased .was; nn influential- chief of the Ngatiporau tribe, and during the Hauhau rebellion in the sixties he took part with'".the friendly Natives against Te Ivooti'V pcoplo. He was> elected tp Parliament in 1884 to represent the Eastern Maori district, but was defeated-at the. election of 1887. He was returned to the. House again ' nil 1894, and sat until 1905. He was jailed to the Legislative Council; in 1907, and held , a seat in that Chamber for about six years. ... Mr ( Nicholas, Reid,* one of the.bestknown of Wellington's'citizens,-is con-, nied-tb' his bed with a severe attack of ironchitis. .An improvement in his »ndition was reported yesterday. 'An accident; befell Mr... A. Harris, JfcLP. for Waitemata, -on Tuesday morn■ing at the Narrow' Neck. Camp. Mr. Harris has enlisted as a wireless operator for service at Samoa, and on Monday went into camp at .Narrow Neck, On Tuesday,' at the early, morning .parade, at about half-past six o'clock, Mr. Harris was seized with a fainting l fit. . He fell heavily on the scoria, ana ' recoived some nasty, wounds on the head, face, and hands. After receiving' medical attention ho, was placed in . the camp hospital. He will probably be confined to his bed for a day or so, but he is .very hopeful of being able to leave for Samoa .next week.. Sir James Carroll is at present visiting Wellington. , Mr. John Rigg returned to Wellington ;by; the Wimmera from Melbourne yesterday.. ' ; ; . Mr. Jackson, of Pollard and Jack- • eon, who appeared with the'Fnller Vaudeville Company recently 'at flis Majesty's Theatre, and formerly, was well known as the tenor Mr. Walter Whyte, has enlisted in the south. Mr. Whyte was the: leading tenor ,of the Gilbert-Sulli-van Opera Company of some five or six , years ago. Another stage.-favourite to join: the forces is Mr. Eddie Marshall, the, clever in 'coloured chalk; ; News has been received that Gunner , Harold Plimmer (son of Mr. Charles vPlimmer, of Boulcott Street), who was killed in'action at Gailipoli, was struck by a, portion of. shell, which hit. the "muzzle of the gun he was serving at the time. Gunner Griffiths was killed outright, and Gunner Plimmer had his thigh blown'away, and died within a quarter -of an hour of receiving his wound. He had,-served with, his. section from the day of the original landing on the Peniii- ■: sula.

/Miss I). G. Armstrong has been" appointed assistdht 'teacher at the Groytown. District High School. ','The-following-Salvation Army appointments. .are .announced: —Captain William Atherford, 'to Dannevirke (pro tem); Captain Annie Hancoe, to Wellington Bescue Home; Lieutenant Nora Christopherson, to Auckland Maternity Hospital; Lieutenant' Hose Marshall, to Wellington Maternity Hospital. : Mr. J. Duggan, of the Berhampore School; is leaving to-day for Melbourne via the • south on a health-recruiting trip.' 1 ' 4 '■

Mr. P. H. Harris has been appointed a member of the Hawke's Bay Fire Board.

Mr. C. S. Gascoigne, master of the junior department,of the, Napier' Boys' High School, who is leaving to take up farming in the Levin district, was yesthe recipient a handsome travelling-bag - from members of the Staff.::'

The Wellington Teachers' Training College was oiosed yesterday on account of the. funeral of the science master, Mr. F. J: Morgan, M.Sc. The late Mr. Morgan was an-, honour sman and graduate of the original Federal Victoria Uni-

versity of Manchester, Liverpool, and ! Leeds, where he was a favourite pupil of Sir Oliver Lodge, On the completion of his degree he was appointed science master to the> Liverpool Teachers' College, but caipe out to New Zealand five •years ago. _ Since his arrival he has filled positions at CarteTton, and at Stratford District High School. Mr. Amelius Smith, one of the best known Civil Servants in Wellington, is lying seriously ill at his home in Island Bay.

Captain W. H. Hennah, officer ' in sharjje of the Government Buildings in Wellington, will be entertained by the Government Messengers' Association next week, on the eve of his retirement on superannuation.

A well-known Wellington identity in the person of Mr. George Rylands died last evening in tho Duke of; Edinburgh Hotel, aged 73 years. Mr. Rylands was .born in. Meldon, Essex,. England, and arrived in Brisbane bv the ship General Canlfield in 1865. He came across to New Zealand in the Taiarua (afterwards disastrously wrecked), and entered tlio Bmploy of the Union S.S. Company as shief stoward of tlie Rotorua, then in the intercolonial trade. He. left the sea in 1878 to become licenseo of tho 1 Post Office Hotel, and rotained the liccnse of that houso until 1883. After a trip round tho world, he returned to Wellinprton, and took over tho Prince of Wales Hotel, which stood on tho •' site of Young and Tripe's building at the corner of Grey and Fentherston Streets renaming it Ryland's Hotel. Later still he was the licensee of the Te Aro Hotel of which hotel he was tho proprietor up till fourteen years ago, since when lie has been living in, retirement, partly in Sydney, but mostly in Wellington. ' Ho leaves a widow, but no children. City Councillor John Fuller who has returned from a visit to Australia, was welcomed back by the Mayor when he took_ his seat at the City Council last evening. ' Visitors staying at the Albert Hotel are Mr. Gilbert Sinn, Sydney; Mr. A. C. Turnbull. of Christcburch; and Mr. H. Fox, of Gore.