PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. Dr. M'Nab and tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald arc roturning from Napier by tho first Main Trunk express this morning. Tho Hon. G. W. Russell arrives from Auckland by tho Main Trunk train to-day. Mr. Justice Chapman left for the south last evening. A Press Association message from London states that Sir Joseph Ward's third son, Lieutenant Gladstone Ward, while motoring in London, collided with a tram in the darkened streets. Tlie motor was smashed, and Lieutenant Ward was removed to a hospital with a bruised face and his head cut. The Very Rev. Dean Rognault, S.M., formerly of Wellington, but now rector of St. Mary's, Christchurch North, is in* Wellington attending to the business of the Marist Order; of which body he is the Procurator. The resignation of Dr. Tolhurst, surgeon on the honorary staff of Wellington Hospital, who is going to the front as a member of the A.M.C., was accepted, with regret, by the Hospital Board yesterday afternoon. Cabled advice has been received by Mr. F. K. Reeves that his son Lieutenant Eric Reeves, of tho New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who had been sent to the Brockenhurst Hospital, Englaud, suffering from debility, is doing well. Sergeant Joseph Hadfield, formerly of tho Post and • Telegraph Departnient; who went to Mesopotamia with the New Zealand Wireless Troop, is still confined to the Cumbala War Hospital, at Bombay, India, where he has been for the last two months. Drs. J.'H. Kemp, H. A. Gilmer, and S. H. Arthur have been appointed physicians, and Dr. W. Young surgeon, on tho honorary stalf of the Wellington Hospital.

Among the most recent enlistments in the city is that of Mr. J. Coyle, a gentleman very well known in many parts of the North Island, and at present secretary of the Wellington Hospital Board. When the Hospital Board met yesterday, Mr. Coyle read his resignation, in the course of which be stated that lie felt it incumbent upon himself to offer his services to the country. He added that he had been ordered to go into camp in December. The Rev. Dr. J. Kennedy Elliott said it was exceedingly creditable to Mr. Coyle to tako this step. It was heroio and patriotic of him, hut tho services of Mr. Coyle were invaluable to the community. It would ho impossible to replace him, and steps should be taken to have him exempted. The chairman of tho board (Mr. H. Baldwin) thought that when a man saw fit to enlist it was wrong to persuade him against it. Mr. C. M. Luke moved that the Hospital Committee should take steps to obviate the necessity of Mr. Coyle going to tho front until the eligible single men are exhausted. Tho Rev. Dr. Elliott seconded, and the motion was carried by a big majority.

Mr. J. C. Russell, ; superintendent of tramways overhead equipment, is to be placed in charge of the administrative work of the permanent way department, in place of the late Mr. Gardiner ; tho present foreman, Mr. Hogan, to be chief officer under him in charge of all construction and repair work.

Mr. F. E. Tilyard, who was killed in action in France on September 27, was' the fourth son of Mr. Chas. Tilyard, of Morrison's Bush, and was 32 years of ngc. He belonged to 1? Company, Thirteenth Reinforcements, and only succeeded in getting accepted after fieing rejected twice as unfit.

■ Mr. A. C. Breth'erton, Chief Examiner of Accounts in the Public Trust Office, was admitted as a- solicitor .yesterday morning by the Chiof Justice, Sir Robert' Stout, on the motion of Mr. J. W. Macdonald, Solicitor to the Public Trust Office.

As Miss Payne has been relieved of her duties as matron of the Wellington Hospital, Miss L. W. I. Stott, Assistant matron, has been appointed actingmatron.

At Wednesday's meeting of the Roman Catholic Education Board motions of condolence wore passed in connection with the deaths of the Very Rev. Dean Smyth, Mr. Martin Kennedy, and Corporal J. W. Stratford ■ (recently killed in action in France). Corporal Stratford was ■ a brother of a member of tho board.

Among the, killed in action on September 27 was Private William George Hendle, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hendle, of ICaiwarra. Deceased left for Samoa with the First Expeditionary Force. On his return from there 'he left again with the Fourth Reinforcements. He was wounded at Gallipoli, and after spending some time in England he left for France, where he lost his life. This is 'the second son Mr. and Mrs. Hendle have lost on active service. Two, other sons are serving in France.

A fortnight ago Mr. Donald M'Lean, tho well-known contractor, who has three sons at the front, received cable advice to tho effect that Privates Alexander R. and James A. M'Lean had been wounded. Since then he had received no further news until yesterday, when he received the welcome advice per cable: "Together Brockenhurst nearly 'well." Tho many friends of Mr. and Mrs. M'Lean will rejoico with them at the good news.

A few days ago Mr. C. D. Mackintosh, well known in musical circles, had a seizure, which caused his friends some alarm. Ho is still confined to his bed from tho effects of his illness.

Mr. J. B. Clarkson, who returned from a trip to England this week, is leaving to-night for Christchurch. The Rev. John Takle, for twenty years past a, Baptist missionary in India, who has been on furlough in New Zealand, left by the Riverina yesterday to resume his work at the New Zealand Baptist missionary station in Eastern Bengal, India. Mr. Takle was acoompanied by Mrs. Takle, Miss Gainsford, of Christchurch, and Miss Cowles, of Khandallah. Mr. W. A. Flavell, of Wellington, has been advised that Private Sydney Maroii6 Ulyatt, of the Twelfth Reinhas been killed in France. Private TJlyatt, who was only nineteen years of age when he went away, was learning farming in the Wairarapa before he enlisted. He is a son of Captain Ulyatt, of the Star of England. Another son, Private Fred Ulyatt, has been wounded in France. < Mr. P. B. Loma.x, well known in business circles in Wanganui and Nelson," who for the last six months has been an inmate of Dr. Herbert's private hospital, Bowen Street, has sufficiently recovered to leave that institution, and is now staying with his sister, Sirs. Exley, 18 Lindrum Terrace, Roseneath. It may be remembered that Mr. Loniax was badly injured in a motor-car and train collision at Nelson, in which accident Messrs. Pyne and Green, of the Christchurch "Press" newspaper office, were killed. Mrs. Hanron, of Wellington, has been advised that her brother, Louis Kennedy Jones, was killed in action in France on September 25. Prior to enlisting ho was working with his brother, Mr. A. H. Jones, auctioneer, Auckland. Last evening the Wellington City Council passed a resolution of condolence with the relatives of the Into Mr. Gardiner, of the tramway staff. The Mayor said that Mr. Gardiner had been a very conscientious officer of muiih more than ordinary ability.