PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2756, 27 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

-v The Hon. W. Fraser. returns from tfc! . south this morning. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, an rived in Auckland by Monday after< ' noon's Main Trunk express. He was present at tho formal opening of the Auckland Boys' Grammar School yeser;lay. Major W. R. Pinwill, of the Liverpool Regiment, who before tho war was a member of the Canterbury. District Staff, has been gazetted a General Staff officer, first class, with the temporaryrank of lieutenant-colonel while so employed. The Very Rev. Father Price, of Christclmrch, Chancellor of the diocese, is loaving for England. . Mr. B. Nolan, of tho State coal depot, Wellington, lias received advice from the High Commissioner's Office, Loudon,. notifying him that his son, Bombardier J. B. Nolan, who sailed: from Wellington with the Main Body, left London for Egypt on February 16 in order to rejoin his regiment. At. tho time of leaving he waß hale and hearty. lii the advice received it is stated that the New Zealanders at Home were eager to return to active service, and the wish was expressed that they might come through scathless, and uphold New Zealand's majw nificent record iii this war. The death is reported from GreytowiX of an old resident, Mr. Ales. Mitchell. ■ In referring to the death of Mr* Morton Clark, the annual report of St* Paul's churchwardens says:—"We desire to express our sense of loss owing to the death of Mr. Morton Clark. He took a very keen interest in the welfare of the Sunday School, and his services to it will be very much missed."' Mr. R. C. Kebbell, of Masterton, intends leaving on a trip abroad, sailing by the Moana for San Francisqo. The death is reported of Mr. John Rose, well known as the inventor of the starting-machine on most of the racecourses. He died at his residence, 219 Upper Vivian Street, at the age or 75 years. Ho arrived in New Zealand! during tho Maori War sixty years ago, and did his part in many ways typical of the early settler. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry. of Hawke's Bay, arrh'ed in Christchurch: on Saturday. , At tho Christchurch Opera House on; Saturday evening a joint presentation of a purse of sovereigns was made to tho retiring manager. Mr. Walter C. Helsdon, late of Wellington, who is being transferred to Sydney, and to •Miss Townsend, a momber of the staff; who was married to Mr. Helsdon on Tuesday. The presentation was made by Mr. A. Bletsoe. At tho annual conference of delegates • of the Federated Catholic Clubs of New. Zealand, held during Easter, the following resolution was passed: "That the conference of the Federated Catholio Clubs of New • Zealand desires to express its sincere gratification and congratulations.to His Lordship Bishop Brodie on his election to his present exalted position in the Christchurch did. cese." A motion of condolence with the rela-i tives of the late Mr. E. J. Fitgibbou, a former officer and president of the Federated Club's executive, was passed by the delegates of tho federation at . their annual conference held during Easter.. By the last mail from India, Mr. Harold Beauchamp deceived the following extract from Divisional Orders, } dated Mhow, March 1, 1916, and pub-, lished by Major-General It. LloydPayne, 0.8., D.5.0., commanding sth Mhow Division, in connection with the death of his lato son-in-law, LieutenantColonel J. C. C. Perkins, D.S.O. ministration Orders. 130 Special.— ■- "The General Officer Commanding the Division, regrets to announce the death of Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. C. Perkins, D.5.0., Military Deputy Audi-tor-General, Southern Army. Lieuten-ant-Colonel Perkins, in .the course of his tour in the division, came to Mhow on February 11. He was taken ill suddenly, and died after a short illness on February 27. He was interred at Mhow with full military honours. Entering the service on November 16, 1887, Lieutenant-Colonel Perkins joined tho Leinster Regiment, and was trans- - ferred to the Indian Army on January 8, 1890. On February 5, 1894, he joined ,the Military Accounts Department* in which he served through the South African War, for his services in which, he was mentioned in dispatches, and received the D.S.O. On the reorganisation of the Military Accounts DeSartmeut he' was appointed Military leputy Auditor-General, Southern N Army, on April 1, 1914, in which\appointnient he was serving at the time • of his death. From the-very beginning of the war, Lieutenant-Colonel Perkins was called upon to undertake a mass of extra work of a very trying nature, and did not spare himself in the performance of his duty. The General Officer Commanding is assured that all will join with liim jn regretting the decease of this distinguished officer, whose death was largely attributable, if not entirely due, to his unremitting labours in connection with the war." .