PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3180, 3 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the -Governor-General, Lord Liverpool, returned to Wellington from tho South Island by tho Maori yesterday morning.

The Bishop of 'Wellington has appointed the Rev. Herbert Walks, of Lkefohuna, to be vicar of Opunake, in succession to the Itev. 0. 11. Stent, wlio has been appointed to tho Eastbourne parochial district. Mr. Walke was formerly a 6tudent of Queen's College, Birminffham, and in 190G was ordained by •I. 10 Bishop of Worcester to a curacy m Shropshire. Ho has ministered at Bketahuna for nearly eight years.

Captain Trevor Noel Holmden, son of Mr. H. H. Holmden, of Central Terence, Kelburn, has been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Holmden, who is an old student of Victoria College, left New Zealand as a sergeant with the Auckland Infantry Regiment, in the Main Body, and subsequently was appointed to a commission in. the Imperial Forces (Worcestershire Kegiment) ; He is. now oil service in Mesopotamia.

Private advice liaa been, received that Lieutenant J. Brown is returning to Now Zealand during 1 December, lie iros twice wounded in action, on the second occasion severely. Lieutenant Brown is & member of The Dominion staff, and has had. a long spell in the firing line. Mr. G. C. Robinson, draughtsman and computer at the Canterbury Lands and Survey Office, voluntarily retired from the Department on Saturday, after # forty years' service. Mr. W. H. Skinner, Chief Surveyor, on behalf of members of the staff, presented Mr. Robinson with a silver-mounted inkstand as a mark of the good feeling between him and his fellow-workers. Ho joined the Depart" j ment in Invercargili, and was stationed lin Blenheim' before "being transferred to I Chrietchurch five years ago.

Privato J. H. Williams, who before eDlisting was in business in Kaiajwi and a member of the Borough Council, and who left' with tho Twenty-third Reinforcements, recently sent a postcard to his wife from the trenches in v France, reporting all well. In a letter written later Private Williams 6aid he had been, visited by his brother, C. Williams (one of 1 tho snip's company of a British destroyer), who was on leave to receive the D.S.O. medal from His Majesty tho King. Both are the son of Captain J. H. Williams, well known in Lyttelton. A very old resident of Springfield, Jlr. Edward Odgers, was buried in the Spring', field Cemetery on Thursday. Mr. Odgeia was seventy years of ago, and landed at Lyttelton in 1866.

"MrTH. Ward, of Bryant Street, Palmerston North, has received cabled advice that his brother, Private Tom Ward, the well-known footballer, was admitted to a hospital in Franco on August 13, suffering from chronic inflammation of the 6tomaoli. Mr. T. Lancaster, of Longburn, has received advice ♦hat his eon, lvifleman Harold Lancaster, who was severely wounded in the Messines battle in June, is returning to New Zealand. He was a member of the Eighteenth Reinforcements, and left the Dominion 111 JW. 1916, subsequently joining up with tho "First Battalion of the New, Zealand Rifle Brigade. Another son, Privato Wilfred Lancaster, went away with the Twenty-seventh Reinforcements, and tiio third and youngest son of tho Family, Mr. Albert Lancaster, at present teacher in charge of the l'aoroa Road School, near Taihape, roached military age this month, and immediately enlisted. lie. goes into camp with the September dralt of recruits.

Mr. Francis Joseph, who arrived in Taranaki about 50 years ago, died i ll New Plymouth last Friday-morning. Ho landed in New Zealand somo years previous to settling in New PlXR 0 ! 1 » ■"?*; spent some time in the goldfields of the South Island. He was one of the founders of the lighter company which carried on the landing service for many years until the .breakwater was available for use. when the company dissolved. Mr. Josepli was a native of the Azores, and prior 10 landing in New Zealand was a sailor on the whaling ships. His latter years have been spent in retirement. Ho leaves .1 widow and family of ta'O—Mr. T • Josep 1 (Lower Hutt) and Mrs. L. A\clls (ul Puniho).