PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2853, 18 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

. 1 __ ~ v The Hon. J. Allen (Minister of Defence) is expected back from. Dunedin to-morrow. Brigadier-General Sir A. W. Robin, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Defence Forces, will leave on an official visit to tho Auckland district on Monday nest. He will bo absent from Wellington for about a week. Ho will be accompanied by; Lieutenant D. I. C. Bryan, Assistant Military Secretary. Mr. L. Kamiya, president of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha line of steamers, returned from a visit to the south yesterday morning. He will leave for Vancouver shortly, on route to Japan. Lieutenant E. P. Coady, late Assistant Director of Defence Stores, Wellington, has, according to advico received this week, been killed in action. He left New Zealand at the beginning of the war as a member of the Main Body, and subsequently returned and joined the Australian Forces, leaving for the front with an Australian draft some months ago. He was a wellknown figure in local football and rowing circles. Deceased, who_ was a single man, was about thirty-oight years or age. His mother resides in Wellington. Lieutenant Coady was a member of the old Submarine Mining Corps (permanent), and at one time resided at Shelly Bay.

The appointment'of Mr. Hugh Fraser Ayson to bo a Judge of the High Court of the Cook Islands is gazetted.

Mr. A. H. Cutler has been appointed Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Rotorua.. On the motion of Mr. C. M. Luke, the Wellington Hospital Board placed on record yesterday its regret at the death of Mrs. T. 0. Williams. Mr. Luke said that Mrs. Williams had been a prominent worker - in many good causes. Among the undertakings she had been connected with were the raising of money for the Victoria Ward, the Otaki Sanatorium, and a balcony for the Victoria Hospital.

A Press Association message from London states that' Lieutenant John M'Gowen, of the Devonshires, a native of Dunediii, has been killed in action.

Private Maurice Caro, head of the firm of Caro Bros., Auckland, and a brother-in-law of Mr. Barry Keesing, of Wellington, has been killed in action in France. Bom in England, he was educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School. He went to England sixteen months ago, and joined the Artists' Rifles.

Mr. Stephen Fisher, of visiting Wellington and the South islan's.

It was reported at the Hospital Board yesterday that the following nurses had' passed the State _ examination:—Nurses Stubbs, Comrie, MacKcnzie, Nock, Dartnell, Honeyfield, Walker. _ There was one partial pass and no failures. i •

A weMcnown member of the Methodist ministry, the Rev. Joseph. Sharp, died suddenly from heart disease 'at Mount Eden on Tuesday. Mr. Sharp first accepted, a position as minister in 1871, in the Primitive Methodist Church, and he has since been in charge of a number of circuits, principally in the south. He was in chargo of the 'Franklin Road Church, Auckland, for four'years, about twenty years .ago. He retired from actiye service last year, but lie had been in charge of the' Takapuna church since 'Apri? last. Ho leaves a widow and family.

At the Auckland Police Station on Tues'day night a welcome was given to Constable T. Cannon, who has returned from the front. ■ He was a military reservist prior to the war, and on iho outbreak. of "hostilities ho rejoined ills regiment in England. Ho was at once sent to tho front in France, where his military Tecord proved decidedly honourable. Though ho was in tho trenches for an exceptionally, long period, Constablo Cannon was neither sick nor wounded. He bore a cliarmed life amidst' every danger. A few weeks ago, his time of service having expired, ho returned to Now Zealand to rcsumo duty as a constable. There was a largo gathering of officers and constables, over whom Sub-Inspector M'llvoney presided. Superintendent Kiely presented Constable Cannon with a 'well-filled purse of sovereigns, the purso bearing a suitable inscription.

The mem Hers of the ''Mother Goose" Pantomime Company arrived from the south yesterday morning, and left for Sydney by the Riverina last evening.