PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2675, 22 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. 6. W. Russell has returned from his visit to Nelson.

Iho. Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward has gone to Rotonia. He will be back in ■Wellington early in'next week. The death occurred yesterday, at the age of-82, of Mr. Alexander M'Leod, of Glondryneoch Station, Maryborough. The late Mr. "M'Leod, who came out to New Zealand in 1865 in the ship The Bearer, leaves a family of three sons and soven daughters. Mr. J. Craigie, member for Timaru, left Wellington yesterday for Gisborne. The Scottish Society at that place has invited him to deliver a lecture on Burns, in aid of the -Serbian Fund. The Ven Archdeacon Evans, of Now I'lyniouth, has been appointed Anglican chaplain,' in the new commission of the i llaheno. Mr. Asliford, Minister of Agriculture in the New South Walqs Government, . arrives in Auckland from Sydney by the Makura next week. Ho intends to take e holiday trip in New Zealand. Mr. D. 0. Bateß, Government Meteorologist, returned yesterday from a visit to Auckland and the East Coast. His Excellency Archbishop Cerretti, Papal Delegate, lias gone to Dunedin. Before leaving he paid calls on the Prime Minister, his Honour the Chief Justice,, the Mayor, and Sir Joseph 'Ward. While iu the south His Excel: lency ivill visit the Col<3 Lakes, will later go on'to Napier and Auckland, and his final .official act in New Zealand will be the consecration, on February 27, of Monsignor Brodio as Bishop of Christchurch. ' Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation .Commissioner, leaves for Napier on Monday to deal further with the saddlery trade dispute. Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary of Public Works, intends to retire from tlio Civil Service on April 20 next. He has been in the Service forty-three years, and has been Under-Secretary for Public Works since October 12, 1891. Mr. Blow's health demands that he shall take a prolonged rest, and he proposes to take a holiday in the South Seas ; and in America. • Mr. Neville Halso returned to Sydney by . the Victoria. Mr. W. J. Hindman, of. the Napier State Fire Insurance Office,-has been ' transferred to the Head Office at Wellington. Corporal Archibald Woollatt, who fell on Christmas Day in the first fight of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at MutrSh, was known in various parts-'of New Zealand. He was employed at Messrs. Smith and Caugliey's, Auckland. Going into training-with the Ist Battalion of the Earl of Liverpool's Own. he was early promoted corporal, and ho gave, every promise of making an unusually efficient soldier. Corporal Woollatt was a native of Otago, but he received his education in England. After leaving school he went to Burmah, where he resided for about six years. ' Then he entered business in Colombo, but finally returned to his native land. After living in Feilding for a few years, he went to Auckland. Corporal Woollatt was well known in athletic circles, and was especially fond of walking.

Major F. A. Wood, N.Z.S.C., who left'with the main Expeditionary Force as adjutant of the Auckland Mounted Rifles .Regiment, and who was wounded in the arm at ■ Gallipoli, is in the Endsleigh Palace. Hospital for officers in London. Major Wood recently had an attack of erysipelas, which left him dangerously ill. He gradually recovered from this attack, and although his wound received a set-back, ho. was well on the road to recovery when his last letters left England. : Major Wood was recently awarded the Military Cross.' His 'wife : arid'daughter reside in Mount Eden Road, Auckland.

At the new Military,, Camp at Featherston the leaders and men, under Overseer Bartlett,' met to do honour to that gentleman. Words of appreciation of the high esteem in which Mr. Bartlett is,held by all sections under his supervision were' made by Messrs. N. W. Gosling, J. Simmonds, and J. Kettles, jeading carpenters, Mr. Kettles'presenting Mr. Bartlett with a Rotherham watch and gold chain, with sovereign case attached, also a case of pipes. Mr. Bartlett, in thanking the' men, 6pok© of the good feeling existing between all ranks, and also congratulated the men on the rapid progress being made with the various works. Inspector Jumes also spoke in eulogistic terms of Mr; Bartlett and those under his supervision. ' '