PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3081, 11 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor; .the Earl of Liverpool, and the Countess of Liverpool left' Auckland on Tuesday, morning for Rotorua., After spending from ten days to a fortnight in the thermal district Thoir Excellencies will come on to Wellington.

Mr. Henry Baldwin -was re-elected chairman! of the Wellington Hospital and. Charitable Aid Board at yestermeeting. Ho was returned without opposition. At the same meeting Mr. John Smith was elected chairman of the Hospital Committee, and Mr. D. Campbell chairman of the Charitable Aid Committee.

Mr. G. W. W! B. Hughes, general secretary of the Y.M.O.A.', Dunedin,' under appointment as supervising secretary to England and France (to 6ucoeed Mr. X -Yarnoy) arrived in Wellington yesterday morning. Mr. Huches will accompany Mr. M. W. P. Lascolles, of Timaru, the member of the National Committee for that centre, and who goes at his own expense to act as Association Commissioner, in company with Mr. W. G. Jamiesoni of Christchurch, and Mr.'."TV'. T. "Williams, of Hawko's Bay.

The commorcial travellers and warehousemen of.. Wellington foregathered last night in-the Burlington to welcome back from the front their old friend, Corporal J. M. Earlo. It was a vory joyous company, for the Wellington commercial travellers do not take their pleasures sadly, nor do any of their functions over lack for song or story. The health of the guest of 'the'evening was proposed by the chairman, ,Mr! -M. Oarr, and Mr. Earlo, when the cheering allowed hiai to speak, made an extremely happy reply. Ho recounted just a few of hia experiences, which had the effect they were intended to have —thoy gave tho inon there present some sort of true picture of what war is as the Germans wage it. Mr. Earlo was presented with a handsomo go|d watch, not for himself, because ho would accept no gift, but for his little son. Master Earlo is not yet of a gold watch age, being aged only two, but the watc.i will keep. Other soldier guests present were Mr. Clutha Mackenzie and Mr. Guy Leniiard 1 . The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, yesterday admitted Mr. Lionel. I. Estrange Waller Edwards, 8.A., Cantab., of Wellington and of Lincoln s Inn, England, barrister at law, as a barrister and solicitor of the Now Zealand Supreme Court. Mr. Edwards is a-sou of His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards. Archdeacon Grace, of Nelson, has received a cable message announcing that his oldest son, Captain Humphrey Grace, who is serving with tho Indian Army'in Mesopotamia, lias been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Grace, who is an old Nolson Collego boy, was granted a commission in the British Army from Nolson Collego in 1904, and in 1905 he qualified for the Indian Staff Corps. In 1908 ho saw active, service with the Indian Army against tho Zakka rebels. Captain Grace's regiment was the first to entor Bagdad when it was taken by our forces rc'Contly, '

* -- - -', -. One of the names drawn in the seventh military service ballot was that of Arthur J. Miller, brother of Mim Frank Miller, of the firm of Miller and*. Ahearn. Mr. Arthur Miller wont into khaki long beforo the Military Service* Act was passed. Being an Australian, (la wished to servo with the Australian Force, and ho left New Zealand in December, 1915, to go to Sydney, where he joined tip on arrival. He has been with the A.I.F. ever since, and only a few days ago his people received cabled advice that hois lying seriously* wounded'in a hospital at' Bristol. Her has lost his right eye, and he lias eight gunshot wounds in limbs and body.

A Press Association message from) Palmorston North states:—Word has been received that Lieut. Warburton, of the Flying Corps, previously reported missing, is now a prisoner in Germany. ' He accompanied Lieut. Robinson, V.C., to France, and it is presumed was captured with him at Karlsruhe. At the annual meeting of tho 'Wellington Plumbers' Union on Monday, Mr. Isaac Jackson, of "Wellington, wag elected an honorary life member.

Mr. Selwyn Joyce, son of the latei Mr. John Joyce, for many years member of Parliament for has arrived in Auckland, having spent about 14 years in America, where he was engaged in journalisticand -theatrical work. Mr. Joyce served in the' First, Seventh, and Eighth New Zealand! Contingents in the Boer War', nolcnng'. commissions in the latter two, and his purpose in returning is to join the f>ew Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Mr John M'Glashan, who has bee* a resident of Wellington for the past 32 years, 'died on Wednesday at the residence of his sister. Mrs. Sloan,™ Newtown, after a short illness. The late Mr. M'Glashan, who was a nativa of Elgin, Scotland, arrived in. Welling.ten in 1885, and followed his avocation as a teacher of the violin and. hand instruments. Besides being a-fa-vourite teacher, he was avPopnlar performer, and thoroughly well known m musical circles generally. It was Mr. M'Glashan who introduced the Caledonian concerts in "Wellington, .and 'their success was a sufficient reward tor his labour. As a citizen Mr. M Glafjhan. , was highly and widely respected. As a. composer of songs, both words and music, he did a good deal, and several of his songs were published at Home.-, He princiDally directed his attention*! the production of Scotch songs: The Lad that conies at E'en." and Ken Ye the Glen," Wnp excellent examples of this class. His book, entitled Melodic and Meditations," winch wa|, published in 1914, found a wide and highly armreciative circulation in ana. bevond the Dominion. For many_yeairS the orchestra flf thn Wellington Working Men's Club and Literary I«jW«to had the benefit of. the late Mr. M Glashan's leadership. He was for many years a member of -the Wellington. Bowling Club". , ~,• .News was received yesterday that, 2nd Lieut. Albert V. lonng, of Wellington, who left here with the Seventeenth Reinforcements, was Med u» action on May 1. 'Lieut. the second son of Mr. T. \otu*, farmer, of Linton, and was & successful Sent of the' Wellington Teaobers Training College and Victoria Unwer sity. When the call came, up with the forces and went to. Samoa, > On returning to New Zealand he re.snmed his studies, at Victoria The ball came again, »^ o with the N.C.O.'s of the Twelfth Reinforcement, and as sergeant-major in kTdraft won the respect and esM of his superior officers and Eventually he was singed out for hampore School. ■ - ; _ .__■ '■ '-, - Captain R. D. Hardie, of M«"«*"| North, who has been promoted to the rank of major, left New Zealand (says the "Manawatu Standard';) as a tentenant in the Second and was advance transport officer to the Wellington Infantry- He parbopated in the Canal fight,.and wait .through the Gallipbli campaign from the landing. On going to France he was m the Somme offensive, and gained his captaincy during that trme and was appointed to the command, of the New Zealand Machine-gun Section at Grantham England, where he was in. fee of a of 10 office and 200 men, besides a reinforcement of 300 men Major Hardie is now in command of No. 4 Machine-gun Company, Td recent letters-from 'Somewhere m Belgium" indicates that he andl his gunners are well 'within the fighting zone. • •. At yesterday's meeting of the Reserves Committee of the City Council. Councillor Geo. Frost was .a-ointed chairman without any opposition. 'Advice has been received that, bergeant Horace Ellen, of Kaiapoi, is returning 'to New Zealand to receive a commission. Sergeant Ellen, who was wool buyer for the Kaiapoi Woollen CompS'left with the Fifth Infantry Reinforcements, and went to fcailipoli. He was invalided from the peninsula to Malta and England. After his recovery he rejoined his company in E«ypt and proceeded with .them to France He took part m various; battles, and was awarded the Military Medal, heing shortly afterwards, recommended for a commission.