PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2642, 13 December 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. A. Hanan returned from' his visit to Napier on Saturday.

The Hon. Dr. M'Nnb, who has been on an extended recruiting tour in the South Island,, arrived' back in Wellington yesterday morning.

The Camp Commandant at Trentham, in Orders, regrets to announce the deaths of Gunner Dougald A. H. M'Lachlan, N.Z.F.A., who died at Trentham Hospital on December 8, and of Rflmn. H. S. Parsons, B Company, Ist Battalion N.Z.R.B.,'who died at Auckland Hospital, on December 7, 1915. , Mr. A. G. Melville, of Melbourne, deputy-general manager of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, and Mr. E. T. Wray, agency manager, for New Zealand, returned from the South Island on Saturday morning. Messrs. G. B. Hull and R. E. Bennett, who have been appointed 2nd lieutenants in the Artillery Division, go into Trentham Camp next week. Mr. R. E. Bennett. Town Clerk of the Miramar Borough Council, has volunteered for'active service. On Sat urday lie was presented bj; the coimciemployees with a case of pipes. On Saturday Mr. E. P. Mountfort, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Masterton, who leaves on. Monday for Gisborne, whence he has been transferred, was presented by clients of the bank with a gold watch and chain. He also received another presentation from the Masterton Savage Club", of which he has been Chief Savage.—Special Correspondent. ' Miss Nancy Rhodes, who is to sing the soorano solos in "The Messiah" on Tuesday, arrived from Auokland on Saturday. Mr. Martin Duff was a passenger frotf the south by the Maori yesterday. News has been received from Dunedil that Mr. Colin. Gilray, tho Scottish international and New Zealand repro eentative wing-three-quarter, has given up his legal practice at Milton, and leaves this week for London to offer his services to the Empire. He will re-' jcin his old company at Oxford University, in which lie held a commission durin his term of study as New Zealand s Rhodes scholar. A postcard has been, received from Sergeant Hall, a dispenser on the Hospital Ship Maheno, who said he had spoken with one who had witnessed the death of Private R, J. Daniel (who was formerly on the reading start of Tire Dominion", and was an "ex-Samo-an"). "He fought like a man and died game." Mr and Mrs. Ultan M'Cabe leave on a trip to tho Old Country next month. . , M. Sigurd Lestrup, the Danish baritone, who recently arrived m fellington, has dcoided to teach vocalism in Wellington, and has taken teaching rooms in the Engineers' Institute, Ait-, ken Street, for that purposo. Mr. Oswald Johnston, youngest son of the late Hon. Walter Johnston, has onlisted, and goes' into camp tomorrow with the 11th Reinforcement?. • According to a Pross Association message from Sydney ■ received last evening, Archdeacon Boyce retires from the iiresijleucy of the New South Wales Allianco. .