PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3119, 25 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Chapman arrived in Wellington by tho Putcena on Saturday evening. Ndwb has been Teceived /in Chrietcliurck that tho D.S.O. lias been conferred on Captain J. Deardcn, Royal Fusiliers, son of Mr. P. R. Deardcn, formerly of Longcliff. Captain Deardcn is a grandson of tho lato Mr. Grigg, ol Longbeach, and is about 22 years oi ago. Ho won. tho Military Cross carlici in tho war. Mr. S. A. Johnston, recently postmastei at Rakaia, died suddenly at Manai; (Taranaki) last -week. Mr. Johnston wai transferred from Rnkaia a few monthi ago. Mr. C. Parata, M.P., has been call* to Dunedirt on important business. Mr.' J. A. Frostick, a member of th< Efficiency Board, returned to Christ church by the Mararoa- on . Saturda; ovening. ' Mr. P. Verschaffelt, secretary to thi Public Service Commissioner, went soutl by tho Mararoa on. Saturday evening. Mr. Fred. Evans, of Upper Plain, Wai rarapa, has been advised that Tiis son Lance-Sergeant S. F. Evans, has beei seriously wounded in the head and tn left eye. _ Mr L. C. Christensen, of Pntara (Eke tahuna), has received, intelligence tha his son, Rifleman Christensen, hasbeei killed in action. Rifleman Christensen who left with the Seventeenth Reinforce ments, -(fas 24 years of age. • , . Mr. James M'Gregor, sen., of "Bal quhidder," Masterton, celebrated flta seventy-third birthday on Friday and was the recipient of numerous congratulations. Mr. M'Grogor, whose new home at the Upper Plain is named after the last resting-place of Rob Roy M Gregor, has resided In the Maeterton district tor over half a century. The friends of Mr. A. Macfarlane, of Pahiatua (a member of the Wellington Harbour Board), who is at present eeriously indisposed, will regret to hear tnathis son, Signaller A. Macfarlane, was killed in action on June "• v 'Regret is expressed in the annuall report; of the Thorndon Bowling Club at the death of Mr. W. Jay,' one of the elub'6 oldest members. Mr G- W. Cobb, Martinborough, has been advised that his brother, Lieutenant J. W. Cobb, is reported missing, believed killed, on June 7. Lieutenant Cobb lett with tho Main Body. Hβ was wounded the second day after the memorable landing at Gallipoli, but returned four months later, and took part in the evacuation.' On reaching "France, he was granted a commission, and saw eernce in the Australian and New Zealand Tunnelling Corps. • ~ ■ Mrs. H. Bristow, Port Ahuriri, has received word that her son, Private C. A. Bristow, was wounded in the right arm in France on May 26. Captain Sonndy, who has been wounded, was formerly headmaster of the Makauri School, and is a son of Air. K-. Sonndy. member of the Hawkes Bay Education Boaid. At the Featherston Town Board meeting a motion vns placed on record, recording sympathy with Mr. u. Lain?Meason, C.E., in tho bereavement recently sustained through the death of his son killed in action whilst eervijjg in the Imperial Navy. . ~".., i. ' Advice was received on Saturday tnat Private H. E. Hart, who was for some years in charge of the Pahiatua branch of the "Wairaiapa Farmers' Co-operative ■Vssociatiou, had been killed in action. The deceased, who was a .married man, was a brother of Mrs.-Alfred Caselberg, of Masterton. ■ On Saturday morning, , Mr. H. JWvatt, of Seatoun, was informed by Otti-. cial telegram that his son Private Herbert Dig'by Wyatt, who went away with the Thirteenth Reinforcements, had been killed in action. The deceased, who was not quito twenty-one years of age, tried to enlist in 1914, when he was -not yet nineteen, venrs of age, but was rejected on accaunt of his age. He then waited until the day after his nineteenth birthday, when he was able to tell the authorities that lie was in his twentieth rear Ho saw service in Gallipoli, j>vi)t, and Flanders. Private Wyatt whoso death will be sincerely lamented, was born in "Wellington, and after two veirs at Wellington College, he joined tho stall" of Kcckitfs Overseas, Ltd., in Wellington. Mr Anderson, chief engineer of the steniiier Calm, and Mr. Scott, chief engineer of the Wauaka, have been apliointed Government inspectors ot machinery. Nγ. Anderson is to be stationed in Otngo. Mr H. B. Cogiui, who has been awarded llio Croix do Guerre, was born m Duuctlin , twenty-four years ago. Ho wont to Christchurch when a lad, and win educated at Mr. Wilson's private scliool in Cranmor Square. For a time ho iilavwl cricket for tho Linwood Cricket Club. Until leaving' New Zealand, ho worked in Messrs. Langdown and Sons' cilice. -At the outbreak of the war ho enlisted, but was rejected. He then wont to England, and endeavoured to join the Aviation Corps, but owing to th'o number awaiting admission to that branch of tho service, ho ofteml his services to a French Ambulanco Corps, and has boon with it ever since. ' Second-Lieutenant H. F. Cotter, reported killed in action, was a member, ol the staff of iho Customs Department at Wellington. 'Ho loft here with the artillery of the Twentieth Reinforcements. He was a prominent footballer, and was a North Island representative player as well as * Wellington representative. He had a brother killed in the South African AYur He was about twenty-four years of ago, and his people belong to tho South Island. Captain Sundstrmn, of Dnnedin, • and Mr J S. Wilson, of Christchurch, both members of the local boards of. the YM.C.A.'s, aro at present on business visits to Wellington. Mr. W. H. George, of the National Committee of the Y.M.C.A.,. went south by the Maori on Friday evening:, tc ,m..U arrangements for the display in Christclmroh of the British official war picture, "The Battle of the Ancre. Private Ernest Johnson killed in action on June 7, was tho fifth son of Mrs. A C B. Johnson. He was a momner oFtho St. James's Cadets, Newtown and left New Zealand with tho Mara. Body. Ho saw service in Egypt, a so in the Vmdiii" and evacuation at (jallipou. Ho was a°so in tho battlo of ■ tho Somme. Private Johnson was « member oi the Brooklyn Harriers. His age was twentyone years.

Mr. l<. A. Kogcrti, UUS-, formerly of Wiilli«|{l«H. ■■■■■"«' admitted aa :<■ barrister or Km ttiipr<-iiiii Court of Now Zealand by Hi'. Honour I hit Chief JuMico at tho recent, iieisii.ii in >iitpier, '." the inotioa of Mr. I!. .1. Doliiii, of Unit town. Ciipliiin Ifcnrv, lunpoctor of the S.l'.':.A., luii been i.dvimd that his eldest '.on. Klnff-SfcrKWUit-jrajor C. 11. Ifi'iiry, him b(;»ii wounded in l''rance. Hβ lftl Kim Zo'ilnnd v.ith l.ho ifain. Body, and had been (tjiitinuuiisly on active mirviwi right up U> the lime of receiving tin. wound.-. I'rior to going on activo v Bcrviei', Kprgciitil-Major ff.cnry was on the iTiiiiiui'iil Hli.lf, and wiLH btatioucd at (.imliornit. Mr. ClinrJos Cameion. of 0' 'Farm Road, Northland, line jiiHt received a cablo mes«u|jo Buying that his youngest son Harry wim wounded, and hao been sent to hosi.ftal. Three- of Mr. Cameron's sons iavn gono to the front; all of them lave Ijr-i-ii woiind(Ml. Tho eldest, Colin, is now in tho Victoria Military Hospital. Tim second fion has recovered, and hat reported as lit for duty. Advico hns been received by Mr. E. J.. Oatland, of Onehunga, of the safety of liis son, Leslie, who was an engineerlioutcnant on tho armed merchant cruiser Avenger, recently sunk jn the North Sea. Mr. Kamsay Martyn Wilson, of the , firm of Wilson and Horton, proprietor of the "New Zealand Herald," whose death in America in his 41st year woa announced on Friday, was the second eon of the lato Mr. J. L. Wilson, and was born in Auckland. He was an enthusiaetio yachtsman until within very, recent years, when illness interfered with; his activo participation ,• in the eporte in which ho was always keenly interested. It was the critical stato of his health that took him to America. Ho left Auckland about three months ago, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, for the ppx- >, pose of consulting an eminent physioiaa at Denver. Mr. Wilson,was married to a daughter of tho Hon. E.' Mitelieison. He leaves no family. Mr. Mitchelson Is also at presont in America or Canada, having left Now; Zealand after the dopartuio of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. Tho Dunedin correspondent of aChrist* church paper telegraphed on Friday that a chango is taking place in the personnel of one of the two Otago Medical Boards—the ono known as the Nortiiern. Board. Lieutenant-Colonel John Christie, who has- been acting as president, proceeds to Wellington to take up the military duties hitherto performed by the late Colonel Hope-Lewis. Lieutenant Norman Leslie Forsyth (killed in action) was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Forsyth, of Eiverton. A. native of that town, Lieutenant Porsyth waa educated there and at tho Southland Boys' High School. Hβ was an engineer on the railways, and was sergeant-major in the Timaru Railway Engineers at the outbreak of war. He left for Samoa, aa a corporal in tho advanco-gnard. Ou tho island ho had the misfortune to be accidentally but badly shot through the lego, and had to lie up for a long spell. After a slow recovery he resumed duty as ouartermaster-sorgeant. In March, 1915 he returned to New Zealand, and, after a period of threo months' reoupera, tion, le-enlisted as » pn«.to m U» Oβof age. - '-