PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2779, 25 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain Randal Woodhousc, E.A.M.C., lato of Wellington Hospital, who has been lit .France sinco tho outbreak: of war, lias recently been awarded the Itili tary Cross.* Captain Woodhouse, who is attached to the 3*,t Battalion Irish Guards, has been wounded, but is now convalescent. l'rivate letters rcceivcil from London state that lieutenant-Colonel Eseou, of Wellington, who was in England in March, was about to return to New Zealand to take up a position of importance here. Major Hickey, D.5.0., General Staff Officer for Otago military district, is due to arrive in Wellington this week to go into camp. Air. John Edwin March, formerly Chief Immigration Officer in the South Island, died at Timaru on Monday, in his sev-enty-ninth yoar. lie was bora at St. St«phonsj Cornwall (England), and camn toNew Zealand in 1653. Re leaves a widow, one son, and four daughters. The death of Air. John Grant, for the past twenty years proprietor of the "Woodville Examiner," occurred at Woodville on Tuesday night (says a Press Association message). The deceased, who was t>s years of age, was an old resident oi' .New, Zealand. He was a native of Scotland, andarrived hi Invereargill with .value of his relatives in th» '60's. He .was apprenticed to the printing trade in Invefeargill, and worked in various newspaper offices in the South Island before ho became foreman of the '•Bruce Herald."' After that he camo to Wellington, and was employed fot l Bomo time in tlie Government "Printing Office. Over twenty years ago he took over the duties of printer of the "Woodville Examiner," and when Mr. Haggea left ho purchased tho paper. He has left a family of three Rons, two of whom aro oil active service, and four daughters. Mrs. Powell, GranUEoad, has received word that her son William Harold, who left 'Wellington by the last trip of ths" Remuera for England, to enlist in the Garrison Artillery, was. on March 31, successfully operated upon for appendicitis at Westminster Hospft.il. An old resident of the Wairarapa, Mr. Henry Remington, died at Masterton on Tuesday morning. The deceased, who,was born in Wellington, was sixty-four years of age. He leaves a .widow, one son, and six daughters. \ ■ Mr. A. E. Lowe, of Tai Tapu, has received intimation from the Canadian Records Office that his son, Private Ernest George Strong Lowe, was killed in action in Prance. Private) Lowe went to Canada ten years ago, and at the mtbreak of war enlisted in the "Winnipeg Grenadiers, Fifth Canadian Battalion. His brother. Private George Lowe, enlisted in Taranalci, and was wounded at Gal« lipoli. At the half-yearly meeting of Totara, Lodge, U.A.0.D., Carterton, Bro. E. 1\ Fs.irbrotlier was elected A.D., p-nd Bro, W. J. O'Moara, V.A.; secretary, Bro. E. M'Kenzie; treasurer, Bro. E. Smith; I.GI, Bro. A. Eeid; 0.G., Bro. N. Armstrong. The remains of Gunner Allan Wilkinson. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson, of Maungatapere, who died at Feathers ton camp after an attack c-f measles, wore interred at Kamo Cemetery on Monday afternoon, with military honours. All business places were closed in WhangaTei during the passing of the funeral, which was of a most impressive character. Several of tho late Gunner's comrades assembled at the graveside when the "Last Post" was sounded and a funeral salute was fired. Dr. Edward Bodle died on Monday at Manurewa in his seventy-first year. Ho was the son of the late Major G. Bodle, nf the 80th Regiment, and gained his degrees at Edinburgh as a .licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. He arrived in Auckland in 1872, and started practice in Papakura and Bombay districts, which he continued until retire-, ment a few years ago. Deceased is sur-' vived by his widow, four sons and ono daughter. Mr. P. Bodle, manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile AgencyCo., at Auckland, and Mr. E. A. Bodle, of Messrs. Kussell and Campbell, aro brothers of deceased, and Mrs.. F. A. Nnttar, of Auckland is a sister. Captain Donald Bodle, who saw service during the Boer War in South*" Africa, and now at Narrow . Neck camp, is a son of deceased.