PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3186, 10 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cable messago from London states that Captain lledley Baxter, of tho Warwickshire, formerly a resident of Ashbuirton, New Zealand, has been killed in action.

Tfmongst tho names jnibiislied in connection with the drawing of tho list ballot was that of Philip Kenny Fowler, Gon of Jlr. Soutliey Fowler, of Feilding. Nearly two years ago, after grc-at difficulty, special permission was obtained from Colonel Gibbon for Mr. Fowler to proceed Home to join the Imperial Forces. Ho passed all his examinations and y.as gayetted to the Royal Naval Air Service, in which ho has been serving for some nineteen months. For the last ten months he has been stationed on the Greek-Bul-garian and Turkish frontiers, with the rank of flight lieutenant.

Sub-Inspector Dew, of the Wellington Police Force, has been ordered to Gisborne to take the place of Inspector Johnston, transferred to Auckland, and Sub-Inspector M'llvenev, of New Plymouth, Telieve3 Sub-tnspector Dpw.

Mr. C. J. Carlyon Ims been appointed secretary of the Wairarapa Racing Club.

Mr. A. Watson, stationmaster, Dannevirke, received notiflcaSon from the Minister of Defenco to the effect that his oldest son, Private Aleck Watson, previously reported missing, is now 'believed as the result of the finding of the Court of Inquiry to have hcen killed in. action on Juno 7. Private Watson, who was 28 vears of age, left with the Nineteenth Reinforcements. He enlisted in Wellington, where ho was employed in the electrical department of the New Zealand Railways. Private advice received by Mr. Watson from relatives of mntes of deceased go to show that Private Watson was killed whilo engaged in a bombing attack, in which the party captured German trenches. Subsequently a German shell landed in their midst, and exterminated tho party. Mr. Watson has another son somewhere in Franco.. Priva.o Watson, who was popular with all who knew him, was a nephew <>E Captain Gilbertson, of Wellington: also Captain W Millar, of 5.6. Himbolia, Melbourne. Ho has an aunt, Miss Gilbertson, resiling in Hamilton. Tho death of the veteran clergyman, tho Rev. William Eonaldson, at Dunedin, at the patriarchal age of 64 yeare, was feelingly alluded to by Arehdoaeon Grace at the late meeting of the Church of England Synod in the Synod- Hall, says the Nelson "Coloilist, when he proposed the following resolution, ot sympathy with tho bereaved velafavcs which was unanimously adopted: lliat Synod having heard "with, regret of the death at Dunedin of tho Rev. William Jtonaldson, n former clergyman of the cioccse of Nelfon, at the patriarchal nge of 91 veafs, desire to express its warm sympathy with his surviving lamily, and to record its high appreciation of Ms spiritual ministrations during his long life-time; especially in connection with I tho Maori Mission of this uiocese, ot which he was for some years the superintendent; and of his ,truly Apostolic labour over forty years ago m tho missionary districts of Picton and the Pelorus; and that a copy of this reEOiution be placed upon the records of the Synod, and also forwarded to his surviving relatives." The Rev. ..tr. Rornddson forty yeara ago was a well-known figure in church work m Nelson and Marlborough, and was also well l:'>own in Wellington. On the invitation of tho late Bishop Suter he took charge _ of the Maori Mission at Motueka and Picton; and subsequently engaged in_ parochial work in the scattered missionary districts of Picton and Pelorns, which widely spread field of labour he regularly travelled over once a month, at a time when swollen rivers had to be negotiated, and rough bush roads traversed, and other hardships encountered incidental to those early days; but, like his great prototvpe, "None of those things moved Kim." He steadily and consistently pursued the even tenor of his way, visiting lonely settlers in the remote fastnesses of tho bush, and laboriously lay* ing tho foundation of the present ctcccssfnl parochial districts in that wilderness in tno present day.