PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2985, 24 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman returned to Wellington from tho North yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel R-oache, recently roported wounded, was well known for many years in Government official ciroles, and in volunteering. He was secretary of tho New Zealand Riflo Association, and a member of fho staff of the Registrar of Friendly Societios. Ho was formerly an officer of tho oldWellington Guards. Captain Petor J. Ewing, R.N., of Wellington, late commander of the destroyer Excel, who has been 011 a holiday visit to tho Sounds, has returned to Wellington. Latest advices from Homo stato that Brigadier-General Braithwaito, C.M.G., D.5.0., has taken over the command of tho New Zealand Forces -at Sling Camp, Salisbury Plain, and Colonel Smyth has taken the former's place in France, Major Eoby. who has also been stationed at Sling Camp, had a stroke of ill-luck cajly in November. Ho stopped to speak to an officer, who was on horseback, when the horso reared up, and kicked him, breaking his right arm. He was treated in tho Codford Hospital. Police Sub-Inspector Broberg, formerly chief-detective at Wellington, has been transferred from Dunedin to Auckland, in place of Sub-Tnspoctor M'llveney, who goes to New Plymouth. His place at Dunedin will be taken by Sub-Inspector Mathieson, of Cliristchnrcli. The 7>v. H. G. F. rector of All Souls' Church, Lehhardt. Sydney, loaves there on a visit to iNe.v Zealand to-morrow. The Bishop of Bunbury (West Australia) lias been offered, and has ac- | ccpted, the parish of St. John's, Hampsiead, the old parish church of northwest London. | Tho Tiev. D. M. Benjamin, of Dmi- [ goff, N.S.W., is on a visit to New Zealand. Mr. H. A. Wheeler, ono of tho national secretaires of the.Y.M.C.A., who lias been 111 Sydney for tho past two years, is coming io N:\v Zeilanil. It is understood that Sergeant Wm. Veitch (sou of Mr. A. Veitch, of Wellington), who has been employed in' Sling Camp, Salisbury Plain, is about to return to New Zealand. Mr. C. S. Tendall, chief sub-editor of the "New Zealand Herald," who is a member of tho Second Division, has volunteered for active service, and has arrived in Wellington to report lotduty. Tho Rev. F. A. Crawshaw, who has beon relieving in St. Mary's parish, New Plymouth, for a short.time past, has been offerod and has accepted the cure of Wailiao Downs, South Canterbury. Mr. and Mrs. Crawshaw will leave Now Plymouth to-morrow for their new home. Dr. .). Hamilton Fleming, late chief surgeon and superintendent of Oakdale Hospital, Monmouthshire, and of the R.A.M.C. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, has taken up duties at Kump-ra, under the Westland Hospital ■ pad Charitable Aid BoAnl.

Second Lieutenant S. H. Crump, oif tho N.Z.A.S.C., lias been promoted oit tho field to the rank of lieutenant. Mr. Walter A. L. Bailey, of Feilding, ! whose death was reported last weekwas for many years' intimately associated with tho timber industry. Ths j deceased, who was 74 years of was (says tlio Feilding "Star") a mem-ji ber of an English family which lia<l«j settled in Tasmania. He and Lib"? brothers wero amongst tho pioneers inJS the timbor-inilling trade in tho Wel-v lington province. Thoy first started?) a mill at Pahautanui, near and later on established. a mill ueari Bulls. When Colonel Feilding and liirf' company secured and opened up tbe'j Manchester Block, tho .Bailey erccted a mill at Taonui, and worked, 'j tho timber on tho Aorangi land, wh<;rß : i tho Feilding golf links are now laitl® down. 'That was in 1875. They abrffj milled Taonui, and, increasing tlieir injj terests, started mills at Data, Mangaonolio, Silverliopc;. an® Kawnatau. The brothers afterwards/; secured an interest in the Fo3ding| Sash and Door Company. As a yoiing| man, Mr. Bailey was a keen, cricketer.*;; In Feilding's early days the Bailey'sl team of cricketers was a doughty com-J bination. Ho was_ for many ycanCJ chairman of tho Feilding Building So-fi cioty and president of tlio Feilding key Club and of the Feilding Athletic* Club. ( News came to hand by the mail iasfcf week (says tho "Press"] that the rofj mains of tho late Captain J. B. Mac-fi donald, of the transport Aparima, werrfj interred in the family burial groundij at Tomnahuriel Cometery, Inverness,-, Scotland. Wreaths -were placed on th»! coffin from deceased's widow and child-i ren, Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Coiikj missioner for New.Zealand), tho direc- j tors of /the Union. Steam Ship Com-; pany of New Zealand, the staff of thai Union Steam Ship Company, captains ;• and officers of New Zealand the officers of s.s. Aparima, the of s.s. Aparima, tho ship's company,:, of s.s. Aparima, Messrs. Heart ana Co.; (of Cardiff), Ltd, and "-others. Staff officers.of the Salvation have recently been promoted by Gen--eral Booth, these being Staff-Captains Haywood, of Wellington; Macaulay, of, Dunedin; Giles, of Chxistchnrch; and-', Winton, formerly of Auckland, but newt) serving as chaplain with the New &ea—j land Forces in Egypt. 1 Lieutenant-Colonol P. R. Cook, has been acting as principal medicals officer in Featherston Camp, has beeal appointed to the permanent Medical' 1 , Board in Auckland in place of Lieut en-j ant-Colonel W. Fox, who is returning t» Christchurch. The Rev. Father, Lezer, S.3L, died; in tho Napier Hospital on Wednesday j last. He was bom near Metz, and was educated in the college there, and afterwards in Barcelona, Spain. After his ordination he was sent as a mis-; sioner to Fiji, where he laboured for about eight years, and then joined tha staff of professors at the Meance Seminary, Hawke's Bay, and for fifteen, years lie taught theology there. A few years ago he was sent to Canterbury, and acted as assistant to Dean Tubman in Timaru; and it was while acting in that capacity that he was sud- 1 denly seized with a stroke of paralysis, and became an invalid up to the timo of his death.