PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2672, 19 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Prime Minister (the llight Hon. iW. P. Massey) returns from his visit to the South Island, this morning. Mr. John Connolly, the ivell-known solicitor of Blenheim, is seriously ill. ' Colonel Logan, Administrator of Samoa, who has boen on a visit to the South Island, has returned to Auckland. Captain E. G. Fraser, Adjutant of tho Auckland Infantry Battalion, who was twice wounded at Gallipoli, is now in Wellington, having boen instructed to report to headquarters. Professor Herbert E. Gregory, of the United States Geological Survey Dcpartmont, and also of Vale University, is touring \ New Zealand, • accompanied fcv his wife, The Rev. Father Maliony and Mr. R. Le Quesne, both of Hastings, arrived in Wellington last evening. Captain Boxer left Hastings yester« day for Nelson. . Adjutant Bladin, of the Salvation 'Army, has been appointed to the charge <>f the new institute, which is now approaching completion at Auckland. Captaiu-Chaplain Gray, in charge of the Army Institute at Avondale, has been appointed to Trentham. At a meeting of the Mangaweka. Totvn Board, Mr. T. G. Burrell, of Auckland, was elected to the position of electrical engineer. ■ Mr. Andrew Anderson, a well-known Killinchy farmer, who had been a resident of that district for over fifty years, died suddenly on Friday. Mr. Anderson was eighty years of age. He was a native of Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, and came out to New Zealand fifty-three years ago. He spent two years in Christchurch, and later- took up the farm at Killinchy on which lie resided up to the time of his death. He took a keen interest in matters pertaining to the dairying industry,, and had-been on the directorate of the Canterbury , Central Dairy Company for twenty-three years. He leaves a widow and grown-up family of seven—five sons and two daughters. Some days ago the cablegrams- stated that Mr. Malcolm Ross, the New Zeai land war correspondent, was ill. The following fetter (says _ the Auckland "Star") has been received by Mr. D. Ross, of the Agricultural Department, from the Prime Minister, in response to an inquiry respecting the health of his brother: —"In reply to your letter, the only information so far received regarding. your brother, Mr. Malcolm • Ross, • was contained in a telegram to the Minister of Defence, stating that Jie had 'been invalided to a hospital ship, ■much against his will, by the ship's doctor. I am unable to say how the statement regarding his health, recently published in the newspapers, came to bo made.v I shall be glad to see whether any further particulars about Mr. Ross Mean be obtained, and immediately there , '5s any news, it will be passed on to you. In the meantime I do not think there 'tis any cause for you to be anxious respecting his condition." Mr. W. Watson, Mr. R. Kane, of Wellington; and Mr. J. H. Upton, of Auckland, directors of the Bank of New Zealaud, who have been on a tour to the north, returned to Auckland on Satur- - day afternoon. Mr. D. H. Fox, who had resided in Napier for the past 56 years, died yesterday morning. Tho deceased served as a bugler in the Maoij War. Mrs. Hart, wife of Lieut.-Colonel sHart, D.5.0., has been selected as the soldiers' candidate in the forthcoming queen of the carnival competition, says our Masterton correspondent. ' , Mr. W. L. Ward, manager of . the Rani.- of Australasia at Hamilton, has been appointed r to tlie managership of the branch at Wanganui. Mr. Ward has been in chaise of tho bank at Hamilton since it was opened.some ten years ago, and during that time 'has established nine subsidiary branches in the district. He has been 29 years in the ■service of the bank, and put in the first few years of his service at Wanganui, whither he is now returning as manager. He will fcnter upon his new duties in the first week of February. Mr. Ward's ■sucoessor at Hamilton will be Mr. W. Beeston, now on the staff of the bank *at Wellington.