PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2876, 14 September 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

There was no sitting of tbe Auckland Supreme Court on Monday, in consequence ol the illness of Mr. • Justice Hoskiug. Deans Hyland, M'Kenna,' and Tubman left for tho 6outli by the Maori last evening. Dean Hyland returned by tho Maitai last Sunday from a visit to Papeete. , ■ The funeral of the late Mr. Gresloy Lukin took place at Karori comotcry yesterday afternoon. It was a very representative assemblage of men who paid their last tribute of respoct to Mr. Lukin—men well known \in the City in affairs, public life, and journalism. The proprietors and staff of tho "Evening Post," the journal which Mr. Lukin controlled for so many yoars as editor, were fully represented. Other journalists present were: Mr. C. W. Marie, editor of Tub Dominion; Mr. W. J. Geddis, editor of tho "New Zealand Times"; Mr. J. M. Geddis, editor of the."Free Lance"; Mr. W s Hi Atack, manager of the Press.Association; and Mr. J Barr, of the Sydney "Bulletin" staff, and formerly of the "Post." The Hon. W r . H. Herries and tho Hon. A. L. Herdman represented the Government. Representing the civic government of the City of Wellington were: The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), tho City, Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton), and the Town Clerk (Mr. J. E. Palmer). Men of affairs present were: Mr. A. E. Macintosh, late superintendent in New Zealand for Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and Sir. J. Macintosh, of Wright, Stephencon, and Co., Ltd., and chairman of directors of the Wellington* Publishing_ Company. , There Were numbers of other citizens of ■ Wellington well and honourably known. They attended as personal friends of the late Mr. Lukin. Tho Labour movement.was represented bv Mr. M. J. Heardon, and several of hi& associates 1 of tho Trades Hall. Wreaths were sent from ill parts of the Dominion, and thoy were all very, beautiful, made, as they were, of the fresh spring flowers now in season, the/ flowers that Mr. Lukin in life loved so well. ■ Tho pall-boarers were all members of the, "Evening Post" staff, doing 'their last mournful duty for their' much-beloved chief. The Rev. A. M. Johnson conducted tho service.

The Revs. G. T. Brown, Halliday, and Tiplcr have been appointed commissioners of the AVairarapa Presbytery tie the Presbyterian Assembly to bo held in Wellington in November. : Sergeant-Major Shanks, of the Permanent Camp Training Staff, has been compelled by illness to relinquish. his duties and go into tho Waikato banatorinm. Sergeant-Major Shanks was instructor to the Wellington N.C.O. s of'tho Seventeenth Infantry Reinforcements, and of the twenty-one of those ■who received commissions, ten were men who had been instructed in their duties 'by Sergeant-Major Shanks.. This Js said to be a camp record.

The death of an old Auckland idon-; tity, in tho.person of Mr. Eobort Cranwe'll, is reported., Dooeased, who was aged 81, had been living in retirement in Parnell for some time past, butprevioiisly he took an aetivo part in affairs in Auckland-and the Kaipara, district, being vory ivell known in both places. He arrived in Auckland on the vessel Matilda Wattcnbacb over, fifty years ago; as >a mombor of a Nonconformist party, formed to settle at Port Albert, on the Kaipara Harbour. Mr. Cranwoll's family brought with thorax ft spring cart-tho first imported into Auckland—in which they had planned to drive to Port, Albert. However, they found that the state of tho roads necessitated travelling :• by bullock-wagon,, which took six weeks, to covor the distance from Auckland to the destination of the pjvrty. After farming at Port Albert for some time, Mr. Cran- i well returned to Auckland, whore ho I entered tho furnishing tirade. '

Included in the list of 'recipients; of the Victoria Cross, contained in a recent cablegram from London, ires the name of a,native of Now , Zealand, Private Thomas Cooke. It is officially announced that the higli i decoration was awarded for taking guns in a dangerous part-of the. lino and sticking to his post under the heaviest fire. When assistance was sent, private Cooke was'found dead beside his gun. Private Cooke, who was .35 years of age, resided for many years in Wellington, where he worked 'as a/builder. About sis years ago he went 'to Australia, hoing employed thoro until ho left with.the Australian forces. Private Cooko leaves a widow and three children. In a letter to a friend in Auckland, Mrs. Cooke states that she' received notification by cablegram that he was killed on July 28.; ,