PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2791, 8 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Leave of absonce from his Parliamem tary duties for a week lias been granted to the Hon. D. Buddo, and Mr. A. Glovei lias been granted three days' leave. Mr. C. M. Stone, who is senior councillor of the Mir am a r Borough Council, will tender his resignation at to-night's meeting. Mr. Stone has received an appointment in the north. Mr. E. Anderson, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce', is on a visit to Wellington. _Mr. H. Cornwall, Commissioner at Niue, who has "been on furlough in New Zealand, has returned with. Mrs. Cornwall to Nine by the Awanui. -Mr. C. 11. Hobbs, Hawke's Bay teprosentative of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company for some years, has teen promoted to the company s Dunedin branch. ' Mr. A. E. W. Wheeler has teen appointed to the position of acting-secretary tothe -Uniou Steam Ship Compny, in place of Mr, C. H. Hughes, who has been trans- ' ferred to Melbourne. Mr. F. W. Thompson, who has carried on business as a dentist in Christchurch: for 25 years, has left for Tanranga, in order to take over the business of a fel-low-dentist who has enlisted, Mr. W.. Waters, town clerk of Paeroa. has resigned in order to take up a 1 similar position at Foxton. Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, who has been indisposed for aomc time, leaves for Itotorua on Friday, to undergo treatment Lieut.-Commander J. B. Murray, an officer of the battle-cruiser Queen Mary, which was lost.in the North Sea battle, was a brother of Mr. W. Murray, manager of the Christchurcli Meat Company. Mr. H. M'Ncill Liddell, building contractor, of Waipawa, l died at Ihds resi-. dence .on Monday morning. Ho leaves a widow, two daughters, and three Eons, one of the latter being in camp. . Word lia9 been received by Mr. W." tfren, of Masterton, that his brother, who held a lieutenant's commission In a British regiment, was killed in action in Franco on May 18. Lieut; Uren was formerly a resident of Auckland. Mr. Frank Rochfort, .of Nelson, who went to England to offer his services in connection with the war, has been appointed a lieutenant in the King's 1 Own Scottish Borderers, Qth Division, as a transport officer. Lieutenant J. H. Cook, son of Mr. J. H. Cock, of Nelson, wit/ has recently been serving in France, has been wounded by a bullet in the left forearm, snd ib now in hospital. Lieut. Cock, who was then a private, was seriously winded .in the left shoulder at Gallipoli. ■ One of tho officers on H.M.S. Warspite. whicilii was engaged in the great naval battle, is Gunnery-Lieutenant. Aylmer Bunting, a son of Mr. T. Bunting, of Christchurch. Mr. Bunting rtceived a cablegram from Lieutenant Bunting on Monday conveying the information that he had come through tho action safely. A Press Association message frota Christchurcli reports the death of Watson F.. Cooper, one of the oldest printers in Canterbury; He had been in the' "Lyttelton Times" office for fifty years. Mr. T. J. Spence, farmer, of Whangarei, and formerly of the Lower Hutt, met with a serious accident the other day through his motor-car oapsizing on the TaradaleMeanee Boad. It appears that while Mr. Spence was driving has- car at a fair pace, a soldier staggered across the road in front of the oar. Seeing that an accident was inevitable, Mr. Spence deliberately steered his car over a bank. The car was'overturned, and Mr; Spenco wiiß pinned underneath and seriously injured. He was in an unconscious condition when released. Mr. Spence was to have been married next week to a Wellington lady, and a postponement of the marriage has been rendered necessary. At last night's meeting of the Onslow Borough Council, a resolution of regret' and sympa-thy with the wife and .parents of Sergt. Julian Batcliffe, a resident ot the borough, who was killed in, action, in France, was carried. '. ■■ Tho president' of the Bee-keepers' 'Association, Mr. J. S. Cotterell, was unable to preside at the conference of the association, held yesterday, owing to illness, and a motion of sjinpathy .with him was passed by the association.