PERSONAL HEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2814, 4 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL HEMS

The Minister of Internal Affaire, the Hon. G. W. "Russell, will .Wiive for Atickj land on Friday evening lieifi rdr "the I pos© of the Government there in connection with,. l(he reraptioi* to the Japanese warships. Tli© HoD. A.. M. Myers, Minister of UiisiWiiis; will; attend the functions. The Uov. W. Ford-Hutchirfson lifts received private advice by cablegram that his son, Trooper F. G. jcird-Mutcliinson, .who left with the Main Body New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and wad wounded at Gallipoli, has f.jccivcd a .(lomtnission in 'the A.S.C.MIT.i Imperial' Army, Captain E. C. Dovey, ennip adjutant at: Trentham, is now on leave, before taking: up his 'duties with the Reinforcements. Arohdcacon Batchelor, D.D., "Tv'ho has .'for fatty .years engaged in missionary work in Hokkaido, the northeifa Japan, Returned from a visit tb Australia ,by the Riverina ycsterd;\j- D r - who is 'on a long itirlougb, was in .Now Zealand a couple oi ( months ago. ,- J ■Mr. J. Ke\r Marty, flianage'r i'.ff Auek--land -for the National Mutual -life Asso'oiatiou, is oil ; a short Visit to Wellington. ' Rifleman Gedrge Frederick A'ohre, of -Northern W'airoa, Auckland, died •of wounds at the front, was bofti il'ahiatua and educated at Sca'rboVougfo •and Waioße. He was twenty-fievcni ■of age". - Major Ralph \Vyman, ID&O., 'rtt'P i»Teporteil wounded a'nd dangerously ill, ia 'the •'second Son of Mr.' W. H. WymSti, of Ayonttnle South. He left New ZeWand' 'frith the liiain b'ouy of the Expeditiibh'ary force, frith the i'aiik of captain. Si» was wbunded on Gallipoli fn the left and was admitted to the Ghezireh hospital, Cairo. For -his services on Vthe Peninsula he whs promoted to the.: talk of.-major, and was awarded the D.iS 0Major Wyman joined the Eighth Gontl-n----geht that took part in the South African war. He took part in the dpcratfe\ns in Transvaal and Cape Colony. ,He Uras awarded the Queen's medal, with two clasps. After his Tetuni from So ttfch' Africa he \vas engaged in fanning. Advice has been received that. LarfceCorporal J. 1\ 13. Condon was killed jn action in 'France on .tune 21. A son' tot the late Mr. James Condon, Laflce-Ccjr-' poral Condon was born in Auckland, tu Id completed .his education at St. Patrick ?s Oollege, Wellington. He was in the se trice of Messrs. Devore, Martin, and Prenlr aergas't i'or about two years, and after-' wards acted as assistant secretary for. the' Nortli Awjklahd Farmers' Co-op.* Limited, in Whangarei. In January, 1911, hot \veut to Canada, and was employed, on. the engineering sta'lf of the Canadian--Pacific Railway at Calgary, Immediately after the outbreak of wa; v he and had been in France 18 months. Lance-Corporal Condon, who was 2!) years of age. was a nephew of the Hon. W. Beehan, M.L.C. Lieutenant J. H. W. Sheppard, camp paymaster. at Trentha'ni, has been., at' tacned to the Eighteenth Infantry Reinforcements, and will, go into training •next week. His successor will be lieutenant G. Fenton, of the Paymasters' Staff. : Mr. F. D. Holdsworth, late Chief Postmaster at Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington. r The Rev. W. Mawson and his■_tattyfrom the New Ze'alattd .Cahton Villages Mission (Mrs. Mawson and three cltildreA and the Misses Wright and Prfcntice) arrived in Wellington on long furlough, from Sydney by tho Riverina yesterday. Mr. F. Ct. Hu,tton, of tho Wellington : Magistrate's Court, is at prbsent in Napier relieving the clerk of the court there. The Rev. Mr. Mawson and I)r. Batchelor were among the passengers to arrive from Sydney by tho Riverina yesterday morning. s Private R. J. Wilson, who was reported I as, having died of wounds, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. He played Association football before coming to New Zienland. He represented Ota go at Rugby as a member Of the Port Chalmers Club, and also represented Otago in the Association game as a- member of the Eavensbourno' Club. 'He was engaged with the Union Steam'.Ship Company, at Port Chalmers as an engineer, and left with the Third Reinforcements. Ho was wounded at Gallipoli, and sent to England tb recruit, finally gohig to France.

Lieutenant Raymond Lee, who returned lately from England, is spending a fllrbrt holiday at Mr. R. J. Dagg's, Fairffew. Masterton. Lieutenant Lee left New Zealand with, the Ham Body.