PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. AV. Fraser returned Ui Wellington" yesterday. The Hon. A. E. Herdman, AttorneyGeneral, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning, and conferred with the executive officers of the Citizens' Defence Corps in respect of matters connected with the Discharged Soldiers' Department. Mr. W. B. Hudson, director of the Discharged Soldiers' Department, accompanied the Minister. With Mr. J. Cullen, 1.5.0., Commissioner of Police, tho Minister is engaged on an inspecion of police stations in the South Island. Mr. Herdman left for the south by the second express, and will return north about the end of the week.

A Press Association cablegram from' London last evening announced that Captain Edmund Boulnots, of the West Yorkshires, a New Zealander, has been killed in action.

Chaplain-Captain Seagrief was presented at Masterton on Friday rugbfc with a gold wristlet watch by the Masterton Boxing Association, in appreciation of his services in the organising of boxing tournaments in connection with the soldiers at the Featherston Camp.

Sincoro regret is expressed in tho annual report of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association at tho loss by death of Mr. John Conolly, president of the Marlborough Lawn Tennis Association, and vice-president for that association to the New Zealand Association. Also at the loss sustained by Mr. G. L Hurley due to the death of his daughter.

Chaplain-Captain Eev. F. T. Read, who spent nearly 12 months amongst New Zealand wounded soldiers, returned by the Marama.

News lias been received that Fred Davies, aged 21, youngest son of Sirs. E. Davies and the late R. Davies, of 212 Upper -Adelaide Road, is missing, and believed killed in France. Ho left. New Zealand with the Ist Battalion, Earl of Liverpool's Own, and was a Wellington College old boy.

Mrs. Ancell, of Kelburn, has received a cable message advising her of the death of her son, Lieut. Eric Ancell, at the front. She has also been advised that another son, Corporal Ancell, has been wounded.

, News has been received in Dunedin t'hat Lieutenant Downie Stewart, M.P., who has been under medical treatment in a military hospital, is recovering. Sergeant Alfred Dodd, who was reported wounded on September 15, but is now reported killed on that date, was the only son of Mrs. C. Dodd, of Tennyson Street. He was in the Wellington volunteers and for some years in the Petone Navals. Sergt. Dodd enlisted early in "the war, and went with the Main Body, 'being among the first to land at Gallipoli, where he was pro-, moted. Having contracted fever, he was in hospital m Egypt for some time, but on recovering, being anxious to get back to the firing-line again, he was sent into France. Much sympathy is felt for his widowed mother.

Lieutenant B. P. Greatbatch, who is reported to have died of wounds received in action, was the son of the late Mr. Greatbatch, for some years postmaster at Petone. Lieut. Greatbatch was educated at the local school, and later at Wellington College. His scholastic career was a distinguished one, and when his mother and family went to live in New Plymouth, where they still reside, he continued his legal studies, and after qualifying, with honours he .commenced the practice of his profession in the 'Waikato. There, as elsewhere, he made many friends, and upon enlisting ho was given a most hearty send-off. .It was recently announced that he had received promotion in the field.

Dr. Edward Henry. Alexander, formerly resident 6urgeon at Asnburn Hall, AVaikari private hospital for mental diseases, was'(says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin) found dead on Saturday at his temporary residence, Mornington. Death was apparently due to a gunshot wound. Deceased, who was a son of. the lato Dr. Alexander, after studying at Otago University, went to Edinburgh, where ho acted as demonstrator in pathology, and subsequently specialised in mental diseases at Edinburgh.' Returning to New Zealand, hejrractised in' Blenheim, but his 'health gave way and he went to Dunedin, taking tip praotice at Ash.burn Hall. Deceased was a 6ingle man, about 50 years of age. His aged mother is still living. At the inquest yesterday a verdict was returned of death from a wound in the held, self inflicted, while in a state of depression.