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PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. 6. W. Russell will return lo Wellington by the Maori this morning. He is to leave for Taranaki on Thursday morning. His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman yesterday admitted Mr. Claud Russell Sainsbury, of Nelson, as a solicitor. . Amongst the" New Zealand officers mentioned in a. AVar Oflico dispatch (just published) aro: Liout.-Colonels L. E. Barnett, N.Z.M.C., N. Fitzhorbert (O.C. N.Z. Records Section), G. T. Hall (staff officer N.Z.E.F., Headquarters in Egypt), G. Hutchen (N.Z. Army .Pay Corps), B. Myers, N.Z.M.C. (Assistant-Director of Medical Services in England), Col. W. H. Parkes, C.M.G. (Deputy-Director of Medical Services in Egypt), Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson, C.M.G. (Commandant Headquarters in England), and Lieut.-001. D. S". Wylie, N.Z.M.C.

Dr. 'A. K. Newman, of Wellington, returned yesterday from a trip to tho Old Country." At the request of tho Mayor, lie has consented to give a Iccturo on his experiences and observations when in the trenches in the north of France.

_ At the conclusion of the afternoon sitting of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association conference yesterday a presentation of a travelling bag was made by Mr. Abbey Jones on behalf of the provincial section of tho association to Mr. F. Pirani, in recognition of the latter's many services to tho country papers, particular references being made'to Mr. Pirani's special services in connection with the typographical dispute recently before tho Conciliation Council and at the conference arranged at tho request of the Arbitration Court, fllr. Gilbert Carson and several other delegates also spoke of the excellent work done by Mr. Pirani.

Sub-Lieut. A. N. Field, R.N.V.R., late of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, and formally a member of the' literary staff of The Dominion, has been appointed to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux.

Advice has teen received that Lieut. Sievwrighfc, son of Mr. J» D. Sievwriglit, of -Wellington, was commandant nf a mortar school when the last mail left.

A cable,message was received in Sydney on February 16 from the War Office that Second-Lieutenant George Fortescue Perston, R.F.A., only son of Mr. N. U. F. Perston, of the Bank of New Zealand, Sydney, nephew of Mr. A. R. Perston, of this city, and grandson of the late W. Roberton Perston, who was for many years manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Wellington, Wanganui, and Dunedin, was killed in action in tho Balkans on February 12. The deceased officer, who was 30 years of age, was born at Dunedin, and was educated at the Waitaki High School and at Nelson College, and from.the latter staff joined the staff of the Bank of New Zealand in Nelson, subsequently taking to farming in tho Auckland district. He left New Zealand in November, Ifflo, for England, where he obtained his commission in the Royal Field Artillery soon after his arrival there. After some months' training he was sent to Salonika.

At the Methodist Conference yesterday, a hearty welcome was extended to the Rev. Samuel Knight, father of the Rot. Percy Knight, of Christchurch, who was also present. Mr. Knight, who has retired trom the ministry, mad© a short speech reminiscent of his connection with the ministry, which had extended over a period of 60 years. Tho Rev. S. Knight, who recently lost his wife, will probably take up his residence in New Zealand. Corporal Harry Kershaw, who is reported to have teen killed in action on January 9, was the son of Mr. John Kershaw, formerly of Austin Street, and now associated with his son, Mr. J. W. Kershaw (head of the firm of Pain and Kershaw, of Martinborough). Much. sympathy mil be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Kershaw in'their sad bereavement.

, Captain' H. C. Cotton, A.D.C., Military Secretary to the Administrator, has taken over tho duties of Provoßt Marshal in the occupied territory _of Samoa, as well as the administration of the Native Department and Native Court.Private Alfred East, of the Ambulance Section of the Main Expeditionary Force, who was injured in the head in Gallipoll, and has had two years' hospital treatment in Malta and England, is again in Wellington. Private East was formerly on the teaching staff of tho Clyde Quay School. . It was- announced by the Commonwealth Minister of the Navy (Mr. Jensen) last week that, acting on the recommendation of the British Admiralty, Captain Henry L.'Cochrane, R.N., bad been appointed to succeed Commodore Gordon Smith as second nava' member of the Commonwealth Naval Board. Captain Cochrane is spoken of as a particularly able officer, with considerable administrative experience. Prior to his present appointment he was acting as Assistant Director: of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty. He is now on his way out to Australia. Second Lieut. (Honorary Captain) J. W. Crampton has relinquished the appointment of Provost .Marshal and •Judge of the Native Court in Samoa. A very early arrival in New Zealand, Mr. W. Flinii. has just died at Great Barrier Island, aged 84 years: Ho was only four years of age, when he came toNew Zealand in the ship Nimrod, as far hack as 1837. The family settled at Hokianga. In 18U4 Mr. W. Flinn . married, and four years later wont to Port Fitzroy to work at the (irst timber mill started on Great Barrier Island. Later, he took up land, and had resided at Great Barrier ever since. Deceased is survived by a wife and ten children.

Mr. Jonah Harris, who .died at Ngaio nil February 23, was born in England in 1840, and arrived in Wellington in the sailing ship Clifton in" 1841. He was educated privately, and tried his hand at many _ trades, eventually accepting a position in the Berhampore Tannery, then situated in the vicinity of the present Athletic Parle. In 1861 ho accepted a position in the late W. L. Hirst's tannery at Kaiwarra, and subsequently entered into partnership with Mr. John Holmes, of Ngaio, taking over the Kaiwarra Tannery, and tvading under tlie name of Hirst and Co. until tho year 1913, when the business was formed into a limited liability company, tho late Mr. Harris being one of tli© first directors, a position he held until the time of his death. The late Mr. Harris, whose wife predeceased him, leaves a family of three sons and three daughters—Mr. W.' H. Harris, managing director of Hirst and Co., Ltd.. Mr. A. Harris and Mr. J. Harris, of Kaiwarra, Mrs. Armstrong, Wellington, Mrs. J. Barlow, Lower Hutt, and Mrs. W. Kelly, Ngaio; also two sisters, Mrs. Moran, Roxburgh Street, Wellington, and Mrs. Dowselt, Newman. The interment took place at ICarori Cemeterv on Monday, and was largely attended.

Captain J. W. Niesigh, organising secretary on behalf of the New South Wales Government of tho World's Press Congress, to bo hold in Sydney in March of next year, has been busy in recent days gotting into touch with newspaper men in New Zealand. He has appointed two corresponding secretaries for tho Dominion, Mr. Cuthbert Bast, editor of the Timaru "Post," for the South Island, and Mr. F. J. Kurle. sub-editor of the "Evening Post," for the North Island. Last evening Captain Niesigh was met by a gathering of representative working journalists.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 4

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PERSONAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 4

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