PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. M. Myers lias returned to Wellington from Auckland.

A l'rcss Association message from' Gisbomo -states that in consequence of the illness of "Mr. Justice Edwards, 1 •who is suffering frosT~"lhfluenzii and asthma, tho Supremo Court sitting ??rero had to ho adjourned till nesday.

Mr.' Joseph lorns,-wild lias "heem; prfvato salesman for the N.Z. Loan.; and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd;, afc Mastorton, for a number of years,-was j on Saturday presented by the executive' of the company with a substantial , cheque on the eve of bis retirement. Mr. "lorns also received a presentationfrom the local staff.

The funeral of tho late Captain Fer- J dinand Holm, who died on ' Fridaynight, took place yesterday morning at'; Karori Cemetery. The Rev, Mr.; Askew, of St. Mark's Church, officiated; at tho graveside. Representatives • from all tie branches of the local ship-' ping community were prosent, as well' l as a largo number of deceased's per- 1 sonal friends ashore. Among the Bmp-v men present were Captain F. A< Macindoe (representing tho MerchantServico Guild), Captain A; Davios and Mr. E. H. Qninlan (Wellington Harbour Board), Captain Johnston, (lata., harbourmaster), Captains Manning and Edwin (Union Compan), Captain'E. B.\ Atwood, and Captain G. T. Hull. The chief mourners woro deceased's family. Miss Beatrice, Holloway, Mr. K. 0. F. Greig, and the members, of the "Seven Keys to Baldpate" Company, ', which is to commenc© a season at thef Grand ,Opera. House on Saturday even-, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. tush, of the firm of Bruce andV Lush, who lias been absent froni .Wellington on holiday, has returned.'

On severing his Jong connection with ■ tho orcltcstra at His Majesty's Theatre - to go into camp, ,Mr. Frank Crowther, • the conductor and pianist, was ed with a ivristlot watch by tho metn-j hers of tho orchestra. Mr.' Harold Oakcs, .who mado tho presentation,' stated that Mr. Crowthor 'would b» missed very much'both b.v the mem- ' bors of the orchestra and the public. • Tile jdeath occurred. at Waihi on. Thursday (states tho Auckland "Star")Y of Sapper James Taylor, who some 1 , weeks ago returned _ from the -war, in-'. valided. l He left with the Waihi Bee-; tion- of the Tunnelling Corps, . and 1 . 5 while .fighting'in the trenches was 0110! of..the victims-.of a German gas.attack.j Ho was treated in a military hospital; and returned again to thei firing line,) where-he was again attacked with gas,j aud later was invalided to New ZeaI land. .On arrival irf Waihi ho was ad-' mittcd to the hospital, where *he' re-J I mained till his death. Ho was a Dative; of Australia, was single, and was 38! .years of age. His mother and rfonr; sisters reside in .Australia, and .'twof married sisters—Mrs. W. Rowo ami) Mrs. Holdsworth—are ■ residents of .Waihi. Deceased was accorded a inili- • tary_ funeral. V j, Mr. Charles Russell, senior coun-. ci? Tor on tho Eastbournoborough Council, has. decided to allow himself to bo noifflnated for the Mayoralty of thai* 'borough.' Mr. .Russell has been a permanenC resident of tho borough, for a. period of eleven years,' and has been a member of tho council for Yiight years. Lite remains of tho lalte Corpl. tfohn Wallace Gosiige, Wellington Mounted Rifles, Main Expedjti'onary Force, ahd Gtuest son of Mr. J.'Geange, of Tipper, Hutt, were interred at St. John's, Trcntham, with military' honours onSunday afternoon. Deoeaecd received', - hoven■ wounds at Gallipdli.. Ho recovered from six, but the seventh, which: nearly savored his spine, caused paraly-; sis of; the lower portion of tho body., Ho underwent treatment- at various. hospitals in/England, and as he had.: made a partfal recovery, he was sent; back to New Zealand. Hp, was the : New Zealander of-whom .it was cabled'i but (that the King had specially honoured' him by conversation and hand- ; shake on the'occasion of. tho Anzao ■ service lat Westminster. Abbey, . .that; ho had been, invited-to tea, and enter- ; tained by the King and Queen at.Buck-' ingliam Pakce, being sent to both funo-. tions in a'special conveyance. Ho died, at Rotorua on Friday last, after having beon. confined ito his bed for nearly . two years. The Bishop of Wellington. : and tho Rev; A. D, Stratford, M.A. X; officiated at tho graveside. Tho Trent-, ham Band and a firing party were m. attendance', together,' with, the Upper Hutt platoon, D Company," sth Rogiment,' Territorials, under Corpl. IV. M'Cnrdv, Upper Hutt platoon D Conn panv, No. 2 Regiment National Reserve, under Lieut. |A.> J. _.MCttraty and a largonumber of friends and relatives.; DeceafoJ is the first of some 200 men from Upper Hutt who have cone to tho front who lias been buried at his own township. _ Three others, lie at Gallipoli and two' in .France.