PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Brigadior-Genoral Sir A. W. Robin, General Officer Commanding the Forces, and Surgeon-General Henderson, K.H.P., Director-General of ■Medical Services, left for tho sotvth last evening, en route to Dunedin. Bishop Sadler, of Nelson, who has been confined to his house for several weeks past, is now able to get about again, and came up-to Wellington, by the Patecna en. route'to* Masterton. Mr. D'Arcy S. Ferguson, manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., returned this week from Sydney . Mr. Jaok Strang, of Palnierston North, is at present in hospital in , England after having undergone an operation for au old injury to one or bis knees. Mr. 'A'. B, Fallover, who was assooiated with Messrs. John Chambers and Sons for many years, has started business on his own account in Hastings. Mr. A. G. Cate, general manager for New Zealand of th© Vacuum Oil Company, who "has been on a month's tour of the Dominion, Teturns from tho north, to-day. ....:."., The death is announced of Mr. Herbert H. Scott, well known in Taihapo business oircles. ■ Lieutenant Henry Morton, of Feilding,". who lost his right leg in Flanders, is about to return to England to Get fitted with- an artificial limb. Mr. Walter Carter, of the Mines Department, who was sent to Nelson lest month in connection with repairs and. overhaul to the Government diamond drill, returned to Wellington yesterday morning by the Kaitoa. An Australian and New Zealand cable message received last night states that the Rev. G. Campbell Morgan has accepted the occupancv of tho Independent Church in Collins Street, Melbourne. The Her. G.'C. Morgan is at present pastor of the Westminster Congregational Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London, where he has been since 1904. He was a mission preacher in 1886-88, and was ordained to the Congregational Ministry in 1889. He has been a prolific writer on religious subjects. An old identity and West Coast pioneer, in. the person of Harry Vickers, died suddenly at Boss on Monday afternoon. , -Corporal Lindsay Gordon Parlane, whose, death, at the front is reported, was the youngest son of Mr. James Parlane, at' present of Palinerston North, and was educated at tho primary and District High Schools, Eltham, Taranaki. When there lie served , as a , lieutenant in the High School Cadets, and on his discharge' was, awarded an "excellent" certificate. afterwards ■removed to Hamilton, Waikato, assisting on his father's farm until, in conjunction with a brother, lie look up land on the Main Trunk line, at Tβ Mawhai, near To Awamutu, and was busy breaking in the property when. tUe call for men came. As soon as the way_ was clear he enlisted'as » private in the 12th Reinforcements. The death, in action is reported of a. young New Zealander, Mr. Dan Thornton, late of Auckland, and grandson.of the late Captain Worep. Although.; only 19 years of age, ne had seen. 22 months of service in Franco, and his commanding officer spoke of him with pride and. affection. At the beginning of the war hV Joined the munition column of the A.S.C. Hβ was through the retreat from Mons, and in the second battle of Ypres, at which time he was only 17 years of age. At the time of his death he was dispatch-rider to tho ■Royal Engineers, and he was killed in action by a. shell, death being instantaneous. Mr. Thornton was bom in Cambridge, New Zealand, and educated in England. His parents, Mr. end Mrs.' W. Thornton, live in BiickinEhamshire. : ,