PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3136, 14 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mdjor Neville Newcombe, Adjutant (1) of Fent.herston Camp,-, who has l>een on the sick list for tho past week, has been ordered a month's rest. Major Newcombe left for Auckland yesterday.

Mr. Pelir M'Coll, engineer, .in. charge of the , nuiuicipal power-housts, lias been confined to his house for over a • week past with severe influenza and a nervous breakdown. His condition is now improving.

Mr. J. IT. Andersson, acting Swedish Consul-in-Cliief for Australasia, is at present in Wellington, and is staying at the Eoyal Oak Hotel. He is making a toinv of 'inspection to all tho Swedish .Consulates in the Dominion. ■\ Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Mr. Larry Foley, the old-timo pugilist. .

Mr. Duncan Neven, one of the touring managers of .T. C. Williamson, Ltd., arrived in Wellington from the north yesterday. Second-Lieutenant D. Kennedy (ternnorarr lieutenant), who has, been paraid the Military Cross, left with the 4th Battalion of the N.Z. Rifle Brigade, and was also mentioned in the dispatches on the Somme fighting. He has two brothers on active service in Egypt-one in tlie Australian Light Horse and the other in the N.Z. Mounted Kiflefe. Lieutenant Kennedy, who was formerly manager for Messrs. Dalgety and Co. at Wnnganui, is a brother of Mrs. R, G. Guy, of Grove Road, Kclburn.

"I cannot conclude (said Sir George Cl'fford in his address to the Racing Conference yesterday) without expressing the sincere regret which must be ielt by every member of .this conference at the decease of Sjr George M'Lean. _ He was universally respected and admired, both within this conference and m hi 3 public life. With strong .convictions, he knew how to support them wthout otfence. On the turf his name was witnout Teproach, and it will be long indeed before the owner of 'Lady Emma ceases to be remembered as an example for nil sportsmen to follow." Sir George Clifford referred also to the death of Mr. Duncan Rutherford. The conference passed a. reeoliition of sympathy with the relatives of the deceased sportsmen mentioned. Mr. Joseph Diamond, one. of the tew remaining early settlers of the.district, died on Thursday (writes our Cartwton correspondent). The late Mr. D> anl °™ was born in Devonshire, and had reached the age of 84. Hβ came to Ivew Zealand when seven 'vcars of age, and at the age of twentv joined in the Australian gold rush, and married over there. He returned to the Dominion 38 years ago, and settled at South Girterton, where for many vears he followed farming pursu.te. He had been ailing for some t>me past A widow, threo sons, nnd five daughter are left. •