PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2934, 21 November 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

- ——-4 . - | Tha Hon. W. H. Herriea will probably return to Wellington from the ' couth to-morrow morning. j The Hon. G. W. Russell was in In-j'.-ercargill yesterday. He i s expected [baok in Wellington on Thursday. ) Tho Rev. E. I. Sola is resigning the 'charge of the parochial district of EastWirne, and expects to return to England in January. |. The Hon. J. A. Hanan (Minister of wSducation) is visiting. schools in this Idistrict, and is also inquiring into the of trouble at the State mine reflating to tho restricted output of coal Sn consequence. On Saturday j last he Jvisited Barrytown, and had a narrow \escape of being washed to sea in stepping from stone to stone while roundling' tile Ten-mile Bluff. Mr. Hanan is Ithe first Minister of the Crown to visit (Barrytown.—Press Association. • Mr. A. Hatrick, of Wang&nui and .■Wellington, is at present confined to 'his bed through an, attack of heart Second Lieutenant Coran Masters [Perry, son of Mr. William Perry, of ("Penrose," Masterton, has . been proimoted to the rank of lieutenant. l , The death occurred yesterday at his Buller Street} of Mr. D. T. jOrr, chemist. The late Mr. Orr was 61 iyears of age. ! Mjr. Dewdney W. Drew, M.L.A., of South Africa, son of. the Rev. W. iDrew, of New Plymouth, arrived from |Sydney yesterday by the Manuka. He .will leave for New Plymouth this morning, i Mr. A. 13. Whyte, secretary of- the (Wellington Racing Club, and Mr. E. £). iLuttrell, a well-known Christ-church arjcliitect, returned->from a visit to Australia. by tho Manuka yesterday. ! Cabled advice has been received by |Mr. Charles Woodward, of Ellice Av'enue, stating that his son, Lieut. C. B, (Woodward, has been admitted to the 3rd General Hospital, Oxford, suffering •from myalgia. Lieut. Woodward left '.with the Fifteenth Reinforcements in ljuly last. j Adrice has been received that Lce.iCorpl. W. A. Evans died on September 128,. of wounds received in action in (France on September 26. . Mr. Evans iwas, prior to enlisting, on the staff of llbe Police Commissioner in Wellington, land had been for several years on the [staff of the Postal Department. On the 'outbreak of .war he enlisted, and went !lo Samoa with tho Advance Guard, being among the last to return to New 'Zealand. Ho then joined up with the (Auckland Infantry of the Fifth Reinforcements, and saw service on Galliiioli. In Egypt, after the evacuation, Mr. Evans joined the machine-gun section, and went to France in charge of a, gun. This post be held until he received the wounds which caused his Irleath. ■ '•. Mr. Bernard F. Whitaker, a wellknown figure in Wellington for the past jforty years, died at his residence, UpJ and Road, Kelburn, on Sunday even- , ting. Mr. Whitaker, who was born near Birmingham sixty years ago, came to Wellington when a young man, and established the bookselling business Iknown as Whitaker Bros., Lambton jQuay. Mr. Whitaker was _ known throughout New Zealand for' his work fin connection with the Roman Catholio jChurch. About three months ago he [was stricken with pleurisy and heart pbuble. : Though the illness was regarded as serious, it waß not thought by .Mr. Whitaker's friends that it would jend fatally. Deceased leaves a widow »nd four sons and four daughters, one lof whom married Mr. James Gibba,_ of [Petone,.and three grandsons. Requiem lMa6s will be celebrated at the Basilica at 9 a.m. to-day, the'funeral, which Jwill be private, taking place afterwards tit Karori Cemetery.

; Chaplain-Captain Clement Houchen, jrfio lias been awarded tli© Military Cross, was vicar of Te Kuiti, and left New Zealand in October of last year (with the First Battalion N.Z. .. Rifle {Brigade. He saw some service in Egypt, and arrived in Franoo in April last. - . •

! Lieut. Stanley W. Morton, killed in fcction, was a son of the late Mr. S. Morton, a well-known tea planter in jtbe. West Indies. He was 26 years of age. Left an orphan at an early age, jha came to New Zealand, and during ithe past 18 years had resided with his .'uncle in Chrisreliurch. He was a keen territorial, and gained his commission whil6 attached to E Battery. He left 'as a lieutenant with the Main Body, and saw much service at Gallipoli. A brother is serving with tho Canadian forces in France.

* Lieut. William Fairbairn, killed in fection, was the only son of Mr. Andrew [Fairbairn, of Ohristchurch. He was only 18 years of age when he enlisted With the Main Body as a gunner in the [artillery. He was an old boy of the AVaitaki Boys' High School, where be took a keen interest in the cadet corps. 'He left the school only a short time beiore he enlisted. He was promoted serjgeant at Gallipoli, and received his commission last March. Lieut. Fairbairn (had been with the New' Zealand Artillery throughout without any leave. > News has been received in Wellington of the death in action of Sergeant John 0. Given, of Invercargill. The late Sergeant Given was well known in '.Wellington, where he was a member jof the Karori Shooting Club. He tvas a highly efficient shot, and . while at (Trentham was one of the champions of Jiis regiment. Before enlisting Sergeant Given was in the employ of Mr. J. J. Cooper, of Ghuznee Street.