PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur tHume, oN fleer commanding the Auc Wand district, is leaving that positi toj and is reported to be 'coming to • Wellington for other duty. The Auckl and command is being taken over 1 >J Colone* G. AV. S. Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jol fiston, ol Homewood, Karori,.are now ui residenci ut No. 10 Hobson Street. '1 felephone. 1.535.

The health of Bishop .AYallis.-'was'im-proved so -much dining the. pasi; ■; twelve months that he and Mrs. AVallis & ccoruing to the "Church Chronicle",! ,vcn * from Devizes to. reside in Salisb. iryat the beginning of October last, in * order that the Bishop might assist ah Overworked clergyman, who liad had a h serious breakdown, in the cans of his p-<* '' sn - Following on this visit to Salisbury- has cune an offer from the Bishop of i.\\ -lisbury, which.has teen accepted,. ivl ■ a post,in the diocese as archdeacon df a' new archdeaconry just formed—A 4 est Dorset, and a request that he will t» >a, Fathcr-in-God.to the,people in this j * -rt of the diocese. Tho Bishop was go aig to continue to help in the charge ■» of the parish of St. Thomas's in Salisbv riy till after Easter, when he will en' la r upon his new duties. — ■>' Mr. P. D. Leslie, .secretary, for Nt tf 7 Zealand of the Colonial Mutual Li & > Assurance Society, has returned to Wei \ • into after a health recruiting trip i.rj the North. Mr. A. H. Johns, who ha-.q been acting as secretary during Mr,y Leslie's -ahseucs, returns to Melbourne",} shortly. • '.'..' Mr. Richmond Daysh, one of the old- j est settlers in the AA r airarapa, is lying I critically ill at his home in Taratahi. - i Dr. D. AY.; J. Porteous,-/the;., well- I known Presbyterian medical missionary, ' who visited Auckland some'time ago when on furlough from Punjaub, and I then went Homo with his wife and fani- , ily by the Bemuera, has offered his .services to the British authorities, and been . given a commission in the R.A.M.G. in France. " As : his, furlough only lasts another year he hopes to re--1 turn to the Punjaub.in due course.

The literary staff of the- Auckland "Star" asseinhled on Saturday morning to bid farewell to Mr: F. W. Doidge, who is leaving shortly for Trehthain* having volunteered for active service. After making complimentary references ti the many good qualities' of Mr. Doidge, the'editor, Mr. T. W. Leys, handed him a wristlet watch as a small token of esteem from the staff. ; The American mail which came" to hand yesterday brings news of the death of Mr. Maurice Farkoa, for ' many years a loading actor and singer with Goo. Edwards's London Gaiety Company. Ho died of apoplexy in Jiif rooms in New York on March 22.' Mr. 11. -Ehckerby, of the staff at th« King's Theatre, went into camp yesterday with the 16th Infantry Reinforcements. Mr. Lockerby, who is a fine riHe shot, having won severalfcvents, was the recipient, on Saturday, of a wristlet watch from his late colleagues. Mr. P. S,' Latham, manager .of the theatre* made the presentation, on behalf of the staff and orchestra.

A Press Association message from Hokitika states that Mr. A. J. Morton Inspector of Schools and secretary of the Westland Education Board, for the past twenty-one years, and; for some time' past senior inspector of- the combined Grey and Westland districts, has received notice of his transfer as senior inspector to' .the Taranaki. .• 'Education District. ' . ' ' Captain Donald Sinison, Engineers, and Captain J. H. Grovcr, N.Z. Staff Corps, have arrived at.Trentham Camp and have been attached to 12th Reinforcements. ' The following officers of the 17th Hoinforcenients Infantry have been transferred to the 16th "Reinforcements'- In> fnntry and allocated to the undermentioned units:—2nd Lieut. E. G. Moilcrief, A Goy., 16th; 2nd Lieut. G."W. Bollinger, B Coy., 16ft; 2nd Lieut. L. Ti Hutton, C Coy., 16th; 2nd Lieut. F. C Mitchell, J. Coy., 16th; 2nd Lieut G. F. Bertrand.'tf Coy.. 16th.