PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2856, 22 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

, Lieutenant Frank F. Newman; of the Royal Field Artillery, and a son of Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P. for Wellington East, has been wounded in, France. Latest advices 6tated that lifecondition was satisfactory. Major 0. E. Clifton, of Pahiatuac' has cabled to his family that ho has obtained six months' leave of absence/ and is returning to Now Zealand, leaving nest week. He is.expected to ar- ( rive here, about tho end of September. Major Clifton has beon in aotion in.' Gallipoli and France, and twice wounded.' Lately he lias been recuperating > in England. His son, Sapper E. Clif- " ton, is in France. Private Cyril Thomas Skevinglon, C Coy., - Eighteenth Reinforcements, died at 10 p.m. on Saturday in Trentliam Military Hospital. The cause, of death was pneumonia, following measles. Deceased's next-of-kin is " Mr. T. Skevington, Post Office Box 12,' Goraldine. . Tho Diocesan Board of Nomination! has sanctioned ■an exchange of parochial districts between tho Her. H. T.,' Stealey, M.A., Vicar of Levin, and tho Rev. G. B. Stephenson, M.Sc., Vicar of Petone. The exchange will takeplace early in November next. Mr. Stanley Grant, who is in Wei-' lington in connection with "The Birth, of a Nation" picture, received newsyesterday of the death at tho front of 1 , his brother-in-law. Mr. Bert Bloomfield,i of Melbourne. 1 Tno 'deoeased, who was* a brother of Mr! M. Bloomfield, who, was manager for Mr. Joseph Blasehock! in New Zealand; was 35 years of age.' He leaves a wife and infant son. ! Two members of the New Zealand. staff of the National Bank of Newj Zoaland hare been deoorated for brav-i ery in the field—namely, C. R. G. Bas-j sett (Auckland), who won the Victoria, Cross, and Corporal B. N. Tavenderi (Christchurch), wlio won the D.C.MJ Mr. Robert Logan, on behalf of the di-i rectors and shareholders of the bank,! at the annual meeting in London, con-! gratulated these young men on their, well-deserved honour, and stated that - a grant of £100 had been made to Bassett as a mark of appreciation for his distinguished conduct.