PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister of Railways, returned from Auckland yesterday morning. The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald i» leaving to-day for Gisborne. Before returning to Wellington lie may possibly make a tour of the Bast Coast district. The Hon. A. M. Myers,- Minister of Munitions, loft for Auckland by the express laat ovening. ' Brigadier-General G. N. Johnston, of tlio Imperial Army, who left New Zea- - laud with tho Slain Expeditionary Force, and saw service at Gallipoli, has been awarded the D.S.O. Bishop Brodie, of Auokland, is at present on a visit to Wellington. His, . Lordship was present at. yesterday's meeting of the New Zealand Catholio Federation. ""

Capt. Keith Heritage, who, 6tates a I'ress Association message from Sydney yesterday, was killed in France, was about 82 years of ago and a native of Sydney, where he was traffic manage? for tho Upion Steam Ship Company. Ho and his brother enlisted in the New Guinea Expeditionary Force, and his brother (Major Heritage) is thought to be still in . New Guinea. In the- New Guinea Force, deceased was a lieutenant of the Transport Corps. Captain Heritage was one of the - Australian eight, which proved• so successful at the Henley Regatta in 1913. Mr. .J. Caughley, Assistant Director of Education, left for Christchurch last night. Ho will retnm to Wellington on Sunday noxt. Tho Dunedin correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times" states that Mr. T. K. Sidey, who lias represented Caversham since 1901, and ia tho author of the Daylight Saving. Bill, on which tho National Government sustained its only defeat since coming _ into being, lias been seriously considering fh« question of liis retirement from politics .it tlio end of the present Parliamentary term, but before/doing anything "definite' lie will confer with his committees. Major J. E.'Diigan, who went away in. charge of tlio Now Zealand Tunneling Corps, had the misfortune to break jiis leg at Arras, France, through a motor-car accident.

Sergeant W. H. Winter, of the 6th Liverpool Rifles, wounded in France, a son of Mrs. Winter, of Manakau, is referred 'to in: an English paper as "Lucky Billie." He appears .to have earned the sobriquet, through his good fortune in passing through some or tho hottest fighting along the front in France without boinn; injured. Now he lies beon wounded. His company earn. e<l the commendation of brigade headquarters on mora than one occasion for their courage and! endurance. Second Lieutenant Sidney O'Carrol Smith (Gail), whose death at tie front was reported l yesterday, was' killed in action on the Somme on August 25. He was educated at the. Terrace School and Wellington College. He enlisted in August, 1914, in the Third Australian Expeditionary Force, and was present at the landing on Gallipoli, where he was promoted sergeant. He was invalided to England in September, 1915; whore he obtained a com. mission in the Rifle Brigade, in viHch lie had been serving in Franco since May. Advice has been received that Ser> geant G J. Thompson, son of Mrs. Thompson, of Epuni Street, who was wounded in France about ago, has recovered and returned to tho front. Sergeant Thompson, who is an old Terrace School boy, was on business in England when the war broke out, and joined the 7th Fusiliers. Staff-Sergt. Keith Little, who was in. valided from Gallipoli last year with enterio, is now doing clerical work oil the staff of Colonel Smythe, with the New Zeal&ndere at Salisbury Plains, England. A l'ress Association cablegram from London states that Lieutenant -E. R. Leary, of tho York and Lancaster Regiment ,a Now Zealander," wa® killed in Franco on August 23.

Captain J.,Coleman, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed Officer Commanding No." i Group (Waikato), in succession to Major E. H. Northcroft. Captain Cola, man has been associated wiih the 2nd and 4th Mounted Rifles 6ince 1902, lat* terly as adjutant, and. as Officer-in-Charge of the loth and. 16th Areas. Prior to that he had acted as mounted instructor in Canterbury for seven yeiTß. Mr. Sigurd Lestrup will leave for Auckland to-day, and whilo in tha northern city will assist at ti\jo concerts. The funeral of the late Mr. William Tonks took place at Karori Cemetery on Tuesday, afternoon. A large number of friends of deceased attended, among them being Mr. C. M. Luke, Sir. G. F. Glen, superintendent of reserves, representing the City Council; merchants 'were represented by Messrs. R. Hall and R. Virtue, lawyers b.v Mr. T. F. Martin, and surveyors by Mr. T. Ward. The chief mourners were deceased's four 6ons—Messrs. F. N G., A. E., W. E. 8., and A. F. T. TonEs; Tha service at the graveside was conducted by tho Rev. A. E. Hunt.