PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 10 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. Allen will return la'.'j Wellington to-morrow morning. j

Tho Hon. Dr. B. M'Nab, who wast' taken ill on Friday night, and who ia, at present a patient in the Bowett Street Private Hospital, is to-day reported to he progressing He is likely to be confined to his bed. for some days.

Mr. Justice Hosking is expected trf-' return to Wellington from tho soutli* on Sunday morning.

Sergeant Vivian Rhind, of ton, well known in social and ama«s teur theatrical circles in Wellington,;; is now doing instructional work ah'. Sling Damp, Salisbury Plain.

Mr. John '6mith ; for many years in-:-spector ofscbools in Marlborough, died.' in Blenheim last week, at the age o£; 82. "'''.■-

Mr. Percy W. Jackson., of the legate firm of Wilford, Levi, and Jackson, has! enlisted, and will go into camp with the Twenty-seventh Reinforcements onJ-: March 5. He has been a member of; Mr. \Vilford's staff for .23 years, and); was admitted a partner two or three': years ago. . ■.'■>.

Major J. L. Sleeman, Director ofi; Military Training, has gone south, foq the'purposo of conducting instructional exercises for senior Territorial and Cadot officers at Tomuka and Lunisden.. The exercises will be the same as those, recently held in the North Island.

Leave of absence, for the preEcnti term was granted to Councillor Leo PDavies, of the Karori Borough Coun»: cil at last evening's meeting of the council. Councillor Davies, who is proceeding to camp shortly, wrote to the' council resigning his place or giving tho council the alternative of granting; leave of absence. The Mayor (Mr. B. (x. H. Burn) remarked that he was sure he was expressing the feelings of the whole council when he said that they were sorry to lose Councillor Davies, but they were very pleased to see him- taking an honourable position ia : going away to help his country. .

Private advice has be-en received that Bearer-Sergeant A. S. Mulligan,N.Z.M.C., has been decorated by General Godley with xhe. Military, Medal. The service by which he won the medal was in the collecting o£ wounded consistently for three weeks under heavy shell fire. Sergt. Mulligan,, who is a brother of Mr. A. W. Mulligan, private secretary to the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, enlisted from Invercargill, and has been with the Expeditionary Force continuously since \ its first fight on April 25, 1916.

Dr. D. Jenness (Wellington) has arrived in England; having practically;, completed for the present the scientific work resulting from his sojourn in the Arctic with the Stefansson expedition. It is understood that Dr.' Jennesa. wishes to join up for service. He was previously,a member of the King Edward's Horse while at Oxford, where he distinguished himself in anthropology.

Captain Robert S. M'Quarrie,, N.Z.F.A., whoso award of the Military Cross appeared in. the list of January; 1, has received his majority. Major M'Quarrie enlisted on the afternoon, war was declared, and commanded the first battery that left New Zealand in. defence of tho Empire, sailing with the Advance Guard that captured Samoa. After eight months on the island he returned to New Zealand and was posted second-in-command of No. 6 Howitzer Battery, and in this position went forward'to Gallipoli, where he served for four months prior to the evacuation. A few days before leaving the Peninsula he was scalped by a _ shellcase, but completed the evacuation _or his guns before going inte hospital. He was gaaetted O.C. No. 9 Battery, N.Z.F.A., in January, 1916, and commanded it throughout tho "Big Push. Ho is an old D Battery boy, baring joined this body as a gunner twelve years ago. Mrs. J. M'Quarrie, Hataitai, is bis mother. Mr. L. Sargcant, who was for many years postmaster at Hangiora, 'retired from tho servico at tho end of the yoar on superannuation.' Tho death occurred at Invercargill on Wednesday of a very old settler, Mr. Angus . Mackay, at the age of ei"hty-four years. The deceased was born in 1833 in Sutherlandshiro, Scotland, wbero bo was educated and; brought up to a country life. He landed at tho Ballarat diggings, and after a couple of .years' further experience camo to tho Bluff by tho ship Pirate. Mr. Mackay served for many, years on the Longbush School Committee, of which, ho was for a timu chairman, and had also been a member of tho South Awarua Licensing Committee for six years, and was from its inception a member of tho Southland A. and P. Association.

Mr. T. Sprott, manager of Messrs. Frank and Bryco, Ltd., left for Australia by the Moeraki on Thursday last to take charge of the firm's Australasian business, with, headquarters at; Sydney. Mr. T. G. Brown, of the same 1 linn, accompanied Mr. Sprott, and will assume charge of the Melbourne branch.

Second-Lieutenant Ernest 0. Helmoro (died of wounds in France) was tho youngest son of Mr. George Helmore,' of Christchurch, and was educated ab Christ's College. Shortly before tho outbreak of the war he went Homo, and passed "through Sandhurst. It was only recently that he loft for tho front.

;Private sdvice has been received of the death of Private lan Thomson from wounds received in France. Private Thomson was the- second son of tho lata Piov. Ales. Thomson, of Potone, to give his life in the service of his country, tho oldest shn, Lieutenant A lister Thomson, having been killed at tho front somo months ago.

Mr. T. O'Brien, publicity 7natiager of New Zealand ricturo Supplios, Ltd., has bean appointed superintendent of the company's Wellington theatres.

Dr. Milson Russen Rhodes, one of the founders of the State Medical Service Association of who visited Now Zealand last year, is expected to return to tlio Dominion shortly, landing in Auckland in the course of a. week or so.

Mr. H. W. Frost, dentist, has returned from a holiday trip to Rotorua.