PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2943, 1 December 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Hosking leaves for Auckland to-morrow, and will preside at the Supremo Court sittings there. A Preqs Association telegram from that tho Very Rev. Monsignor O'Leary Lawreuco died yesterday evening, aged 68. The Hou. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., who has been severely recently for signing an anti-conscription manifesto addressed to tho Australian voters by some New Zealand workers, volunteered for service with the Expeditionary Force at Dunedin last week. He presented himself for enlistment at the Drill Hall in the ordinary way, and does.not appear to have been tocognised by the recruiting officers. He was examined at once by the medical I officer on -duty, and was rejected as not being fit in a military sense. Mr. Paul is a married man, and so is a momher of the Second Division of tho Expeditionary Force Reserve Mr. E. J. Healy, of Messrs. R. Martin, Ltd., 'Wellington,'has been officially advised that his brother, 2nd Lieut. William P. Healy, of the Australian Infantry, was killed in action on November 15. The deceased, who was a single man, 39 yeare of age, was born in Wellington, and was the oldest son of Mr. W. F. Healy, late of the Harbour Board staff, at present on a visit to Ireland. Lieut. Healy. was educated at the Marist Brothers' School in Boulcott Street, and afterwards joined tho 6taff of Messrs. Sargood_, Son, and Ewen ,remaining in the service for many years. He was afterwards In business in Cuba Street as an auctioneer. When war broke out ho and hiß youngest brother (Michael) were in 'Australia, and both at once joined the Commonwealth Infantry; sent to New Guinea and' returning with the laot draft from that island, Lieut. Healy re-enlisted in Sydney and went through the Gallipoli campaign unwounded. On September 15 last he was awarded the Military Cross "for making .a daring reconnaissance in No Man's Land in broad daylight, and commanding a captured trench with great skill and daring." Deceased, who was a very popular officer, was in former years prominent in amateur theatrical circles in Wellington. Another brother Is Lieut. Patrick Healy,. New Zealand 15th Reinforcements, now in France. At the meeting of-the Onslow Borough Council last evening a motion was carried that a letter of sympathy he sent to the relatives of Sergt.-Major Casey, killed in action. The late ser-geant-major was a resident of the bor ough., Councillor W. G. Welch has been reelected chairman of the Masterton County Council, and Councillor j. E. Perry chairman of tho Mauriceville County Council. A Press Association message from Sydney records the death of Mr. John Tebbutt, the astronomer. Mr. Tebbutt discovered the two grandest comets of the nineteenth centurv — those of 1861 and 1881. No fewer than seven returns of Encke's celebrated comets were also observed. In 1862 Mr. Tebbutt was offered tho post of Government Astronomer, but ho preferred to work privately for the science. His observatory has been placed in the list of working observatories in the national Ephemerides of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. In 1861 he was elected a member of tho Philosophical Society, now tho Royal Society of New South Wales. In "1873 Mr. Tebbutt became a Fellow of tho Roynl Astronomical Society of London..and in 1895 was chosen as first president of the New South Wales branch of tho British Astronomical Association. _ In 1905 the Royal Astronomical Society presented him with the Jackson Gwildfc medal for services to astronomy extending over nearly half a century. i

The Wellington Trades and Labour Council decided last evening to nominate Mr. J. M'Cullough as workers' representative on the Arbitration Court, and Mr. M. J. Reardon as deputy representative. A Press Association message from Auckland announces the sudden deatk of Mr. James Cosgrove, headmaster of the Manly Superior School, Sydney, who was visiting Auckland for his health. Mr. Harry Matthewsj formerly oE Christchurch, has just returned on leave to New Zealand, on a visit to old friends, after particiapting in the Jutland Battle on H.M.S. Warr^r. A Press Association message from Dunedin states that Captain Stenhouse, who brought the Aurora from the Antarctic, left Dunedin yesterday for ■Wellington in order to meet Sir Ernosfc Shackleton. Mr. H. C. Gore, who has been engaged chief biograph operator for the new Cuba' Street picture theatre, The Queen's, arrived in town yesterday to complete the electrical apparatus in. the theatre. Mr. Gore, who is an expert kinematographer, is a New Zealander, and recently returned from the> United States, where he has had extensive experience in "movie" ttieatres in that country.