PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman returns from Blenheim tliis morning. •.Sir Joseph Ward left for Invercai* gill on a recruiting mission last night, Bishop deary, of Auckland, has been, an inmate of the Mater Miserioordiae Hospital at Mount Ederi since Thursday last. A successful operation was performed last Friday to remove the cause of a. trouble that for months past has considerably retarded _ tho patient's convalescence. The Bishop is now making satisfactory progress, and his medical advisers are confident of his general health being considerably .improved. Mr. E. D. Petrie, licensee of the Rail, way Hotel, Christohurch, and a wellknown sporting enthusiast, died suddenly on Tuesday. Mr. E. Clifton, who was the-New Zealand Commissioner at tho San Francisco Exposition, is expected to return to tho Dominion in'about a month'a time. Mr. P. B. Lomax, who was injured in the motor-car accident near Nelson in which Messrs. H. D. Pine and A, 13. H. Green were killed, is progress* ing favourably. Dr. M'Alpine, who has been medical officer on the Makura, for two years, left the vessel at Vanoouver to join the forcC3 there. He has been succeeded on tho Makura by Dr. A. E. Porter. Mv. C. L, Nelson, who recently arrived from Canada, where he was in the sorvioo cii the Canadian Paoific Railway Company, lias been accepted for service as an architect in the engineers' reinforcements. Among the passengers by the Makura from Vancouver to Auckland on Monday. was Mr- H. A. Van Torchiana. jun., son of the Commissioner-General for .the Netherlands at the $an Francisco Exposition, and President of the Foreign Commissioners' Association. Mr. Torchiana lias come to New Zealand on the advice of tho New Zealand Commissioner to tho Exposition. "If all that Mr. Clifton has told us proves to bn correct," he said to an inter* vicwor, "I boliove I have found the promised land." News has been received in Dunediu that tho crack Rugby footballer. James AVflie, who wa« a member of the original New Zealand All Blacks team, is leaving the Leland Stanford University, California, where ho lias been a student for some time, and has decided to join tho oolcurfl. Mr. R. B. Bell, who for the.past eight years has been manager of tho Ashburton "Guardian," and who has now en. listed, was presented by the/ staff of his paper on Friday with a gold wristlet watch, while Mrs. Bell was given a silver-mounted oalt tray and vase.

_ Commissioner Hoddor, of the Salva* tion Army, who has been, on a visit to Fiji, returned to "Wellington yesterday. ArchbishopO'Shea is at present in tho Nelson distriot, and will not return to. Wellington for about three weeks. Mr; Louis P. Whitcombo has been appointed to the directorate of Messrs. Whitcombo,and Tombs; Ltd. Mr. David L. Cromarty, au old Maori War veteran, died at the Auckland Hospital on Sunday, at the age of 73 years, Mr. 0. Aldis, of Northern Wairoa, formerly of .Foilding. has beeu appoint* d secretary of the Cheltenham Dairy Company. Mr. A. Drieberg, a banister from Colombo (Ceylon), is at present a visitor to the Hot Lakes District. ■ Sir. S. W. Franklin, of Danpevirko, loaves for Sydney by. the Maltai to-day to conneot with the Malwa for London. ■ ' Mr. 0. 0. Larmour, manager of the "Colonial Motor Company, leaves on a trip to America by the Niagara next trionth. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Larmour. Mr. and Mrs. P. Yreede and Mr. F. Vreedo, residents of Batavia, Java, who have been touring the North Island, left by the Pateena yesterday for Nelson, West Coast, .Otira Gorge, and Mount Cook. ' » Staff-Sergeant Keith Little, of Wellington, who has been undegoing treatment at. the Tooting and Unelsea Hospitals, London, is at present convalescent at' the N.Z. Military Hospital at W alton-on-Thames. Councillor L. M'Kenzie and Mrs. M'Kenzie, who have been on a fortnight's holiday trip to Nelson and the Sounds, returned to .Wellington on Tuesday night. Mr. Herbert Smith, manager for New Zealand for the Phoenix Fire Assurance Company,- who was savagely assaulted by two unknown porsonß while on his way home one night last _ month, is able, to take open-air, exercise and transact o little business, but it will be some time yet before lie is thoroughly well again. Mr. A. P. Seymour, who has been a&sociatod with the progress of Marlborough for a great many years; lias so "far recovered from a _sovero illness as to be able to leave on an extended visit to Nelson. The death is announced of Mr. John Young Simpson, a well-known resident of Napior. Deceased, who was fifty-six years of ago, was, born in "Elgin, Scotland, and arrived in New Zealand 36 years ago. He took a keen Interest in athletic sports. At one 'time he lived at Otaki. Cable advice bas been received in Auckland of the death of Mr. J. R, Miller,! in Vancouver, last Friday. A native of New Zealand, Mr. Miller went to Canada' many years ago, and subsequently returned to Auckland as representative, of Messrs. P. Burns and Co., Ltd., of Vancouver. Mr. Miller- remained in Auckland for some years, but owing to ill-health returned to Canada last year. • • Trooper Charles B. Johnson, of the . Auckland Mounted Rifles, who died of pounds on. January 21, in hospital at ilexandrla, Egypt, was the eldest son jf Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, of Mangaiti, Te Arolia. Trooper Johnson was educated at Te Aroha District School. On completing the course there he engaged in farming pursuits on his father's property' at Mangaiti till he enlisted with the 6th Reinforcements. Mr. Thos. Hanlon, the Gisborne Borough Council's beach caretaker, although 63 years of age, has been sent for by the War Office (says the Gisborne "Times"), and he proceeds shortly to London. ,to take up a position on the Recruiting Staff for the English Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Hanlon spent "7 years in the Imperial Army ; and took his discharge at Calcutta with the rank of sergeant-instructor. Referring' ■ to his age, ho said that.age did not count now; it was a man's service papers that were responsible for an appoint, uient, for a position could be found for every competent Imperial man. Tho War Office has sent Mr. Hanlon, £100 to pay the Homoward passages of himself and his wifo. ■ At tho last parade of the No. 5 Company, N.Z.G.A, held at Fort Ballance, tJergeant-Major '• Cruickshank was presented with the twentyrone years' service medal and Sergehnt Shardlow with the twelve years' medal. In making tho presentation, Lieutenant-Colonel Courtney referred to the really excellent ecrvico that both these n.0.0.'s had rendered the -unit during their long association with it. He also 6tated that they could > find 6ome comfort in the fact that ther'o were a largo number of younger men serving at the front who were the bettor soldiers from having benefited by their example and , instructions. i The Military Cross has been conferral on Captain Brio F. W. Mackenzie, K.A.J1.0. (son of Dr.' Wallaco Mackenzie)) '"for bravery aind coolness in collecting and treating wounded in the open under heavy shell and rifle-fire:" Captain Maokeuzio, who in still a.t the front in France, was mentioned in Sir John Fronch's last dispatches.' The Military C/oss ranks in merit next to the V.C. Pte. L, L. Levy, whoso name was mentioned in thelast casualty list _,of. JsViv Zealanders with the 4th Australian Light Horse, is the aon of Mrs. Levy and the late L. L. Levy, of Wangnnui Avenue, Ponsonby. His father was a 6cldier, having served as a corporal ill the Maori War with tho Wanganui Volunteer Cavalry from 1868 to 1873. He was at one time secretary of the King's Knipire Veterans' Association. At the Ashburton Courthouse on Monday the Mayor (Mr. Robert Galbraith), members of the Bar, Justices of the Peace, and the Court oflicials mot to bid farewell to Senior Sergeant A. T. Emerson, who leaves Ashburton shortly to take up his now duties in .Wellington. Mr. Galbraith '< presided, and in asking Senior Sergeant Emerson to accept an address for himself and a travelling-rug and bag for Mrs. Emerson, said that they could not let the occasion pass without expressing their appreciation of the recipient's services m Ashburton. The address was signed by tho Justices of the Peace of the district, the members of the Bar and Court officials. Reference was also made to the great assistance Mrs. Emorson had given to the .patriotic and other, good work in the district. Mr. John Davie, who died in Dunedin on Saturday afternoon, was in his day one of the ' strong and masterful business men who made Dunedin (says the "Star"). He was of Scottish birth, nephew of Dr. M'Candlish, the ..great preacher, and as a young man was in one of the Glasgow banks, after which it) gained further commercial experience in a sugar refinery at Greenock. He went out to Victoria m the diggings days, but did not stay there very long, for Dalgety's firm sent him across to Diuiedin to be their salesman. : Mr. Davie resigned his position after a while to become a partner in the firm of M'Landress, Hopburn, and Co. Afterwards he set up as a public accountant. He held one of the Dunedin seats in the Otago Provincial Council, mid was Provincial Treasurer in the Execn.tive formed by Mr. Donald .Rcid. tha last-named gentleman being Provincial Secretary. The Otago Harbour Board gave Mr. Davie an opportunity for much usefulness. Ho was a member ot that body for years, and afterwards acted, as valuer.