PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2870, 7 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Very Rev. Dean Smybhc, Provincial of the Marist Order in NewZealand, is at present seriously ill. Tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald will be back in Wellington this evening. Mr. C'rosley Lukin, editor of tho "Evening Po3t," who has bcou confined to his home with illness for some weeks past, suffered a relapso last evening, and ln's condition is, wo regret to say, giving concern for grave anxiety. Mr. T. K. Sidey, member for Dunedin South, is reported, to have definitely decided not to contest the a-oat at the next general election. Mr. Sidey finds that his health demands rest from political work. Mr. George Allport, Secretary of the Marine Department, left yesterday on a brief visit to Nelson. Mr. E. H._. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, has been'visiting Auckland.

Golonol M'lnnes, of the London' staff of the Salvation Army, who is to succeed Lieutenant-Colonel A. Powley as ohief secretary in New Zealand, is duo to arrive in the Dominion on September 17. Lientcnant-Colonel Powley was recently appointed field secretary to the Salvation Army in Australia. The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works,'will anivo in Welling-' ton from Hamilton on Friday morning. Ho will leave for Taumarunui and Rotorua on Monday night. Mr. D. F. Ferguson, manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp. and Co., left by the express for Auckland last evening. His visit to Auckland is in connection with the expected'arrival in New Zealand of the steamship Akita Maru fiom Japan. Mr..Ferguson expects to return t<) Wellington on Monday. Mr. J. VBcntlcy Russell, the wellknown AVeHington amateur actor, lias joined tho Allan Wilkic Shakespearean Company, which is to "open hero on Saturday evening. Mr. R. D. B. Robinson, Town Clerk of Gisborue, is spending a few days holiday in -Wellington.

The death occurred in Auckland on Monday of Captain John M'Keniio, a well-known local master mariner, aged 65. Deceased was born in Nova Scotia, and'eamo to Now Zealand with his parents when ho was a.boy. . His father was one of the founders of the Waipu Settlement; Auckland. Captain M'Kenzio, who was a prominent Presbyterian in Auckland, is survived by ono son. Mr. J. M. M'Kenzie, LL.13., who left New Zealand as an assistant-chaplain, but who lately offered himself for duty in the firing line. There are also three unmarried daughters. ' jNews has been received that i Corporal A. E. Yates, now serving: with the Bth Australian Expeditionary Force in France, has been wounded. He was a native of Wellington, where he resided until about two years ago, and attended the.Marist Bros, and St. Anne's School. He is the sen of Mr..and Mrs G. H. Yates, nf Berbampore. ' Judge Holland • and Major Henderson left for the south by the Maori last night. The Council of Education at its meeting yesterday passed a resolution expressing appreciation of the action of one of its members, Captain J. R. Kirk, in volunteering for activo service, and wishing him a safe return. In replying, Captain Kirk said that some people held' that' 1 men occupying important positions should not go to the front, hut he was a man of independent means and felt that, like others, he was bound to do what he could to help tlie Empire, more especially as ho had had military experience. Captain Kirk is a resident of Gisborno, a lawyer by profession, a member of the Gisborne High School Board l , and also an Education Board memtor. He is one of tlio two North Island representatives of Education Boards on the. Council of Education.