PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2933, 20 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. i His Excellency the Governor the Earl I of Liverpool ana the Countess of Liver- > pool were present at the Paul Dufault ■ concert on Saturday evening. Major Barclay, medical superinten- . dent of Wellington Hospital, will arrive back by'the h.s, Mahcno on or about December 14. i The Rev. Hector M'Lean, M.A., o£ Knox Church, Invercargill, who is at present in camp, occupied the pulpit of tbe Kelburn Presbyterian Church yesterday morning. Colonel G. W. S.' Patterson, Officer Commanding tko Auckland Military District, arrived in' Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. Mr. James Hislop, "Under-Secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs, is at present a visitor to the Auckland district. ■Mr. Arthur J. Gillman has been appointed junior resident master at the Napier Boys' High School, in succession to Mr. S. K. Siddells, who has enlisted and goes into camp at the boginning of next year. Mr. Gillman was born in Dunedin, being dux of the George Street School, and a scholarship holder at the Otago Boys' High School. He was prominent in all sports and a first-class shot. He had onlisted and was on the eve of departure with the Fifteenth Reinforcements when he had the misfortune to catch a severe cold, which developed into pneumonia, which illness finally caused him to be discharged. The many friends of Lieut. Cyprian E. Bridge, of the Third Battalion N.Z.R.8., the Lowis machine gun section, of which, after leaving here, he was appointed to command, will be interested to learn that lie is now senior instructor to an army school for Lewis machine fruu instruction "somewhere in France.'' Lieut. Bridge having just rejoined his battalion after ten days in hospital with a slight attack of pleurisy, was not allowed to take part in the advance of September 15 and following; days, and was relegated to the reserve supports. Eventually, however, this reserve was ordered up to assist, in holding the ground gained, and. Lieut. Bridge accordingly got a measure of his heart's desire in taking some part in the memorable fighting and its experiences. Though loath, if only temporarily, to lea.ve his battalion, he had to obey orders and' take up the appointment as above stated. Ho has under him another'-officer instructor, a staff sergeant-major, and some n.c.o. instructors. The routine he describes as decidedly strenuous. Mrs. John Barton, of Trentliam, has received a. cablo message from her son, Mr. Wilfred Barton, tliat . owing to bronchial asthma lie is obliged to return to New Zealand. Mr. Barton joined an aviation school as soon as he arrived in England, and was one of ten out of two hundred who succeeded in paßsing the efficicnoy examination. Mr. .Barton obtained first place in the examination. The funeral of Pte. Murdoch M'lver, of the 19th Reinforcements, whose death recently occufred through suffocation by fumigation fumes, took placo on Friday. Lieut. A. Mills, A Company, !22nd Reinforcements, represented the Defence Depart,ment. Chaplain-Capt-j). I).' Scott (Prosbytci ian) conducted the service at the graveside. Tho Trenthant Band, under S. M. Fox, played the "Garland of Flowers" on the way to the ICarori cemetery, and a firing party was supplied by Trentham Camp. ■ ' • Lieut. James Kosherv Mills (son of Sir James Mills), of the GOth King's Royal Rifles, mentioned in the cablugratus as having been hurt at Salonika in February last, sustained his injuries by the collapse oPa dugout in the night. Ho is now reported as lit for light duty, and is assisting in the training camp at Lowestoft, says a Press Association message from Dunedin. The International Bible Students' Association has just suffered by the death of its president and founder. Pastor Charles Taste Russell, who recently succumbed to an attack of heart failure, while travelling to Now York, after an extended tour, including Texas and the Pacific Coast