PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from London states tliat Sir .Tames Carroll [lias sailed for New Zealand. He visits South Africa on route. The Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Minister of Munitions, left for Auckland on Saturday by the Main Trunk express. Sir George Clifford, who has been laid up at his residence at Fendalton for several -weeks, is reported to be improving steadily. Dr. Barron, of Opfunake.' will go into camp at Awanuni to-day, and will proceed to the front shortly. Prior to leaving Opunake lie was given a sendoff by the people of the town and the surrounding district. Mr. W. H. Didshury is at present under treatment at the Thorndon Private Hospital. He expects to bo about in a fow days. Mr. W. H. Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner, will loavo Wellington for Napier to-day, to preside at a meeting of tho Council lo deal with the typographical dispute Mr. B. Hamilton has been elected president, of tbo AVelUngtou Friendly Societies' Board for the ensuing year, and Mr. Tt. Dixon (secretary) and Mr. C. Kershaw (treasurer) nave been reelected. The executive consists of Messrs. Perrin, Bourke, Lawrence, and Taylor. The death is recorded of Mr. Harry Llovd Brett, second sou of Mr. Henry Brett, of the- Brett Printing and Publishing Company. The deceased, who was about fifty yea.rs of age, was horn in Auckland, and on completing his education entered the office of the Auckland "Star," of which paper his father was one of the founders and is still principal proprietor, and subsequently he devoted himself to the management of his estate in the AYaiotapii Valley. 'Hie deceased has left a. widow (a daughter of Major Mair, of Takapuna) and family.

> Tho Rev. Canon Sydney Calvert I; Jackson Grime, whose death is announc- , ed from vSydney, was a former resident ;of Now Zealand. From 1878 to 1879 ' ho was stationed in Oamaru. In tho ■ latter year ho removed to Rivcrton, " where he ministered 1884. In 5 1888 lie received an appointment in I New South Wales, where he had sinco i resided. 5 On tho occasion of their departure for the front, three members of the Twenty-first Reinforcements, Privates > 6. Rait, A. E. Anderson, and A. Clark, ' former employees of the firm of Thomas > Ballinger and Sons, wero farewelled by I the firm and comrades, and presenta- , tions were made by Mr. Fred BalI; linger (on tho firm's behalf), and Mr. . T. Ryan for tho employees. Each re- [. oeived a shaving outfit and a wristlet watch, the former from the firm and tho latter from the employees. Eulo- ' gislic speeches wore made, and the sol- ' diers received many expressions of 5 goodwill. Letters received by last week's mail s from Dr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catho- ' lie Bishop oF Auckland, show that at > the time of writing he was in London, , having just returned for a short rest i from the New Zealand camps in Franco. [ For some time past Dr. Cleary has been 5 on duty as an honorary chaplain to the . Now Zealand troops. To this position ] he was gazetted prior to his departure • from the Dominion, and, finding that ' the regular Roman C'atliolio chaplains ' sent from New Zealand wore overwork- ' ed, the Bishop placed his own services > at the disposal of. tho military authori- - ties until the pressure should relax. i As further Catholic chaplains have 5 been Bent with recent reinforcement -, drafts, it is probable that by this time I the need for the Bishop's assistance '_ will have been removed. Dr. Cleary's health, according to the latest information, has greatly benefited in the '' course of his tour. Though there is ' yet no definite advice as to his plans '' for returning to Auckland, the ecclesiastical authorities have reason to be- > lieve that he will be back in his diocese i in about April or May.