PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2740, 7 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Joseph' Ward returned from the South Island .yesterday.

Tho Hou.'W. D. S. Mao Donald has gone to the South Island.

A Press Assdciation message from Hobart- states that Sir Eider Haggard will conclude his Tasmanian investigations in regard to the soldier settlement scheme on Saturday, and will visit the various States before proceed- | ing to New Zealand. '■ Mr. R. Tait has been appointed Act-ing-Town Clerk during the absence on holiday of Mr. Jno. It. Palmer, Town Clerk. - Mr. C. A. Briggs, manager for E. W. Mills and Co., returned this week from an eight months' trip to Australia and the East. ' - The death has occurred at his residence, Eemuera, Auckland, at the ago of'Bl, of Mr. St. Clore Evlyn Liardet, who was well known for many years in Wellington. Deceased was the sixth, soil of Mr. W. ¥. E. Liardet, founder of Port Melbourne, which for many years was called Liardet's Beach. Mr. St. Clere Liardet was a naturalist, and author of a book on field sports of Australia'. He was a champion oarsman. He went to Victoria with his parents when five years .of age, and cime to - New Zealand in the early 'sixties with his two brothers, Messrs. Frank and Hector Liardet. Mr. Frank Liardet did not stay long in New Zealand, but returned■■ to Rosedale in Gippsland, where both he and his wife died % Advice has been received that Sergeant Malcolm Galloway, of the New Zealand Infantry, has been promoted lieutenant at tho front. Lieutenant Galloway was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, and was well known in the Wellington cricket and football world.' ' Official news announces that Corporal Morrison (son of Mrs. R. Morrison, of Bluff). was killed in action in August, 1915 (gays the "Press"). When he enlisted, Corporal Morrison Was a keen, and valued member of the Bluff Territorials, with which corps he learnt the rudiments of Morse and semaphore signalling, which stood him' in such good stead with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He left Bluff with the Main Body in August, 1914, and, while in Talmna encampment, lie was selected for special service as _the wireless operator of the s.s. Ruapehu—one ' of tho troopships which' took the' Main Body to Egypt. On arrival there he was drafted into the Signalling Corps as a lance-corporal, and he was shortly after--1 wards promoted corporal. _ Corporal Morrison landed with his unit in Gal-

lipoli early in May—shortly after the big landing and the strenuous fighting of those heroic days—and he saw-all the service that took place from May to the big attack of August. His death is rendered all the more-touching by the fact that;he was- practically the eole support of his widowed mother and her family. Corporal Morrison was 23 years of age,.and was educated at the Southkni Public School and then at the Southland High School, at both of which he earned off several prizes, hav., ing been a bright and. adept pupil. He was a keen oarsman and cricketer, particularly the former, and he was in several winning- maiden crews. The news of the death of Mr. John Lochhead, a well-known Leeston farmer, which occurred at the Christchurch Hos. pital on Monday afternoon, was received with deep regret by his many friends throughout . the Ellesmere County. -Mr. Lochhead was born at Beath,' Ayrshire, Scotland, and came' out to New Zealand with' Ins parents over fifty years ago. After spending a short time in the north, Mr. and Mrs. Lochhead and their son came- to Canterbury, and Mr. .Lochhead and his brother took up land in the LecstonLakeside district in the days when a great 1 part of the Ellesmere land was liothing but swamp. Mr. Lochhead had therefore, seen the district grow and develop, and as a young man had helped with much of the drainage and other pioneering work. He had always taken a keen interest in stock raising, espec* ally in the breeding of Clydesdale horses, and was regarded as a very capable iudge, having acted m that capacity at many shows. Mr. Lochhead had been a membw of the Ellesmere Vmcultural and Pastoral '> Association for a very long period, and filled the office of president several years .-.go.