PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3049, 10 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Mnw are spending the Easter holidays at.Eastbourne (England), and Sir Joseph and Lady ."Ward at Mmehead, in Somersetshire. Sir Joseph A\ard will visit Glasgow on May 5, and review twenty thousand of the Boys Brigade.—Press Assn.' The Hon. AY. D. S. Mac Donald is visiting Masterton, where lie was to havo addressed a meeting of farmers on the. wlleat-growiiie question last evening, lie returns to. .Wellington this evening. The remains of the late J It'. C. ABriggs, for many years connected witli the firm of Messrs. E. "W. Mills and Co;, Ltd., and Who recently died suddenly at .Honolulu, were interred at Karon last week. The Rev. Mr. Payne, of Kelburn, officiated at the graveside. Lieut.'Salt, of the .New Zealand Permanent Staff, who was at Galhpou tor seven months, ' has been appointed O.C. A.S.C. at Eeatherston Camp. Telegraphic advice has been received in Wellington that Mr. M Murray Outhbert, a well-known picture theatre manager in Gisborne,, who was thrown from a gig while out driving, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday last. Advice has been received by mail of the death at the front o* Sergeant James Murphy, who was foreman tor the Public Works Department at Patutahi quarry prior to his enlistment in tho Ist Engineers'' Tunnelling Corps: It appears that Sergeant Murphy was very seriously wounded in the passageway of his billet by a fragment of a. German liigh explosive shell. He was at once conveyed by ambulance to a depot in the village of Aubigny, where he.died. His loss was keenly felt by both officers and men of his company, and the O.C. recorded liis appreciation of Murphy's sfervices in the ordors of the day. ' Sergeant Murpljx's parent I reside in, ®[ellisgton« . , A J

, Mr. 17. H. King. formerly of Wan®» nui, has been appointed, organising eeoretary of the Waikato sub-provincial district of tlie New Zealand Farmers' Onion. Tlicro were 54 applications. Mr. King is a; returned soldier, and has had considerable experience in the class of work lie will be • called upon to perform. Sergeant B. C. Welch, wild was lately awarded the Military Cross for bravery in the field, is a. son of Mr. G. : E. Weloh, of Horsham Downs, Auckland, Cabled nows *been received irt Masterton by Mrs. L. St.George to the effect triat their son, wlict left for England some months ago to join the Ro.yal Flying Corps, has succeeded in passing his examinations* ,Lioutenant L. W. St. George has now fully qualified for active service—or iu other words, has "obtained (as wings." Mr. S. D. Rabone, of the Bank o£ Now Zealand, who has been stationed at Motueka for. some time, lias been, promoted to a more responsible position in the Takaka branch. Mr. Rabone, who is the third son of Mr. Samuel Rabone, of ICarori, enlisted with tlie Ninth Reinforcements, "and became paymaster at Awapuni, but after serving for .twelve months was discharged on account of ill-health. : One of his brothers (Ist Rifle Brigade), was wounded in Egypt once .and in France three times, and is now camp instructor at Essex. Another is on the staff of the hospital ship Maheno,, while another is atjout to go into camp*