PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2922, 7 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Artlmr M. Myers. (Minister of Customs and Munitions) will arrive from Auckland 'by this afternoon's train.

News was received by cablegram yes-' terday that Captain J. E. Macdonald, of the Union Company's steamer Aparima, had died) in an Eastern port.; Captain Macdonald was a genial skip- 1 per, and his cheery nature won him innumerable friends, both ashore and afloat. General Bympathy is felt wit¥ i Mrs. Macdonald, who resides at Dunedin, and a telegram of condolence was sent to her by the Wellington offico off. j the Union Company yesterday mornI ing. As a mark of respect to "the latecaptain's memory, the flags on tho> various vessels of the Union Company in port were flown at half-mast. Captain J. K. Davis, of the Antarctic ship Aurora, left "Wellington on Saturday last, by the Paloona, for Melbourne.

Major W. K. Fyffe, JN.Z M.C., who) saw service on Gallipoli, has been appointed Acting P.M.0., Wellingtons Military District, until the return of Lieut.-Obionel J. S. Elliott, N.Z.M.C.

Snrgeon-Oaptain Eric Mackenzie, R.A.M.0., son of Dr. Wallace Mackenzie, has been seriously wounded by Shrapnel in. France, and is now an inmate of Lady Evelyn Mason's hospital, Bruton Street, London. _ Captain Mackenzie has been on active service ab the front as M.O. to the 6th Gordoa Highlanders for eighteen months, and' has taken part in every big battle since the Totrcat from Mc-ns. Aftor the Battle of Loos he was recommended by tho men of his regiment for the Military Cross "for distinguished bravery and coolness in collecting and treating wounded in the open under heavy shell and! rifle fire." He was also mentioned by General French in his last dispatch from France. , Mr. .T. Doyle, late of tho Gisborne office'of the Union S.S. Company, has been appointed to succeed Mr. D. Morrison as the company's represent-: tive at Barotonga., Mr. Morrison arrived in Wellington by tho Maitai on Saturday. ■Mr. B. F. Whittaker, the wellknown stationer, is soriously ill.

Yesterday, Mr. T. H.. Gill, MX, LL.B., who Las lately retired from the* position of inspector of secondary schools, was atotted as a barnster and solicitor of the Supreme CourtThe motion was made, by Mr. A. it. Meek. Mr. Gill is entering into partnership with the firm of Perry and Linklater. . , .

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hioras, of Wanganui,' are on a, brief visit to 'Wellington to bid good-bye to two nephews, who are at present in camp. * A Press Association telegram from Perth (W.A.) states that acoording to Router's; Agency Mr. Whiteman, last year's West Australian Rhodes scholar, has been killed in England while train--1 ing with the Royal Flying Corps for military service. - ~ : : News has been received that Rifleman S J: Gully, wto was wounded during the capture of Fleurs, and was in r>o. 32 Stationary Hospital, has been sent to the base to undergo an operation for the removal of a piece of shrapnel from his forehead. Before enlisting Rifleman Gully was in.the employ of Messrs. Wright,' Stephenson and Co.. > . News has been received by Mrs. E. R. B. Holben, of Palmerston North, that her son, Lieut. Robert Holben, has died of wounds received' five weeks ago. The'late Lieut. Holben left New Zealand with the Fourth Reinforcements, and went through the Gallipoli campaign without being wounded. Whilst motoring from Ngaurawahia to Hamilton on Friday evening, Mr. D. Hay, stockbroker,' a well-known oricketer of Auckland, endeavoured to avoid three animals on the road, and crashed through a fence into a pot hole. He.was' apparently endeavouring to apply the foot-brake, but pressed the accelerator instead, witb the, result that the car bounded forward, and, after striking the fence, turned a double somersault. Mr. Hay was struck in the ohest by the steering-, wheel. Several ribs were broken, and his chest was'crushed. He is at present in a private hospital at Ngaruawahia. Mr. A. Miller, manager of the stock department of the Farmers' Auctioneering Company, who accompanied Mr. Hay, escaped with a slight injury to his knee.