PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2982, 20 January 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Dr. M'Nab, who has been confined to tho Bowen Street Hospital for some time, was reported yesterday to be greatly improved in health: The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, who has been on a visit to Wairoa, returned to Wellingtoii from Napier last evening. Mr. C. A. Biggs, who is retiring from the management gf Messrs. E. AV. Mills and Co., Ltd., was yesterday presented with a gold wristlet watch and a walking-stick, as a farewell token of esteem from tho staff. Mr. G. F. Mills presided at the function, and Mr. John Elliott made the presentation. Mr. Edward 'Tingey, of the firm of Messrs. It. and E. Tingey, Wellington, Wanganui, and Talmorstoii, whotfe death as the result of a motoring accident was reported yesterday, was <t nativo of London, and aged sixty-six years of age. Ho entered into partnership with his brother, Mr. Richard Tingey, now of Wellington, as oil and colour merchants in AVariganui in 1869. In 1886 the firm purchased the business carried 011 in Manners Street by Mr. James M'Alpine. and Mr. Richard Tingey came to -AVellington to manage it, Mr. Edward Tingey remaining in Wanganui. The deceased was twico married.' By bis first wife he lisvd thirteen children, some of whom are now dead.- There is one child by the second marriage. One of his sons is at the front. "

A Press Association message from Dannevirke states that Surgeon-Cap-tain W. C. Hart-gill, son of Mr. W." H. Hartgill. of Dannevirke, has _ been awarded the Military Cross for his conduct on the field in France. Dr. John R. Philpotts, .72 years _:if age, a visitor from Takapuna, died suddenly at Timaru yesterday. 'An inwill be held to-morro,w. —Press Association. ' ■ The death is announced' of Mr: Henry Gaisford. aged 75 years (states a Press Association message). Deceased, who was a. large landowner at Oringi, and a well-known sportsman, was one of tho earliest residents of Hawke's Bay. Mr. Gaisford was to have,been represented at the forthcoming meeting by Crowliurst and Sahana. . Mr: J: B. G aisford, of Rangitikei, owner of Mattock, and Mr. Herbert Gaisford, owner of Ohiwai, are sons of the deceased gentleman. ' Mr. Chas. Douglasi has resigned the secretaryship of the Napier Chamber of .Commerce after holding'.thaV posi-tion-for ■ the past nine years. —Napier Correspondent. Dr. .-Sydney Smith, District Health Officer, Wellington,- has received a cablegram offering him the medicolegal expert to the Egyptian Government and Lecturer -on Medical Jurisprudence at the University .of Cairo. Dr. Smith Las accepted the offer, and will leave for Egypt in' a few weeks' time.- A New Zealander by birth (lie was born at Roxburgh, Central Otago), Dr. Smith qualified for his medical course at the Edinburgh University. He graduated M.B. in 1912; took the diploma of Public Health in 1913, and became M.D. in 1914., being the Gold Medallist of his year. ' For two years' he acted as assistant to the Lecturer in Medical Jurisprudence (Professor Littlejohn), and about two and a half years ago he camo out to New. Zealand as District Health Officer, Dun'edm. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to Wellington, succeeding Dr. Chesson, now of Christchurch.

Speaking at the University Senate at Auckland, the Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout), in his address, said:—"The Rhodes Scholar elected in 1915 was Lieutenant;Athol Hudson.. He died fighting for his country in the fields of France., s He received after bis appointment intimation that he was the successful senior scholar in chemistry, and. lie would no doubt have won greater scientific distinction had his career- not 'come to 'such, an untimely endf :Tho Rhodes trustee gave the University power to nominate; for last year two Rhodes .Scholars, Those nominated were A. 0. Ponder' and A. F'. Meldriim. Mr. Ponder had the following academic distinctions, the B.A. degree and senior scholarships in chemistry ; Lieutenant Meldrum had_ passed with distinction the examinations" for the first and second sections of the LL.B. degree. He left New Zealand for the front, and was unable to sit at a later examination. No doubt if ho •had ..not gone to the front he would have' obtained his degree, and" perhaps honours.".

Mr. Harold Brown, of Clyde Quay, wine and spirit merchant, and formerly connected with the firm of Laery and Co., enlisted for active service yesterday. Mr. Brown was, a few years ago, ono of Wellington's best tennis players, and is a keen motorist.

The Hon. AV. J : , Mac Donald', of Canada, whose death was cabled recently, was an uncle of the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture in New Zealand. Thus nncle and, nephew each became entitled to the prefix "Hon." in a Dominion,of the Empire. The Hon. W. J. Mac Donald arrived in Vancouver in 1851-,' and lived there for 65 years. He was threo times Mayor of Victoria,member of the Legislative Council from 1859 toMBB6, and in 1871 was called! to the Senate of Canada. He retired-when 80 years of age.

Mr. J. "ff. Sinclair, a student of the Auckland Jubilee Institute for the Blind, was successful in the recent matriculation examination. Though not quite, blind, Mr. Sinclair is so far deprived of siglit as to be unable to study at an ordinary school. During the past three years lie has studied at the'institute under two blind teachers, Mr. Doric L. Algie and Mr. David Outram. His subjects were English, mathematics. Latin, English history, and geography. This is believed to he the first occasion, in New Zealand at least, in which such a success lias been gained by a pupil of a blind teacher.