PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3196, 21 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-EEGAL. At Wanganui yesterday afternoon His Excellency the Governor presented a Excellency tlvg Governor-General presented a Military Medal to Private W. , Connell. Last evening, at a patriotic entertainment, Lord Liverpool presented the Hutton Memorial Medal, for scientific research, to Dr. Patrick Marshall, principal 01 the "Wanganui College. Their Excellencies return to Wellington to-day. Plight Lieutenant E. H. Garland, o£ th'e 'Koyal Flying Corps, who was posted missing on August 22, is ai prisoner of war at Karlsruhe. Lieutenant Garland has written to the effect that he is being well treated. Captain Keith Murray, of the, .Royal Flying Corps, ai). old King's College boy,; has been awarded the Military Ctoss. Captain Murray, who is a stepson of Dr. M'Dowell, of Auckland, left Auckland in March.; 1915, and after receiving,-his training in England, began active service on the Western front towards the end of August. of that year. He was promoted flight-commander in "March, 1916, and was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's first dispatch. ,He has been continuously engaged in the firing-line since last November, and was again mentioned in dispatches in June last,

Mr. Mark Maxton, of Greytovn, has > received a private cablegram stating that liis fidn, Private C. W. Maxton, 22,596 2nd Anzac Corps, Cyclist Battalion, has been gassed, but not seriously. No official intimation has yet "been received.

On Wednesday afternoon the staff o£ t.he Ikaroa Maori Land Board and Wellington Native Land Court assembled in tho Judges' room in the Government Buildings for the purposo of bidding farewell to the Registrar, Mr. L. A. Teutenberg, who has been transferred to Auckland, where he has been appointed Registrar of'the I'okerau Maori Land Board. Judge Jones, on behalf of the staff, wished Mr. Teutenberg "good,luck" in liis new sphere, and presented him with a silver coffee service as a token of tho esteem in which he is held by the various members of the staff. By, the transfer of Mr. Teutenberg, the Wellington Civil Service Amateur Sports Club loses one of its most energetic and popular members, for it was mainly due to his energy that the annual inter-departmental tournaments wore inaugurated, and_ were such a success. . On account of the absence of such a large number of the mcmbere 'of the service at the war, it has been found impossible to hold the .tournaments in late years.

Last evening's Gazette contains notification of the appointment ,of the Governor-General, _ Lord Liverpool, as a member of tho Privy Council.

Sergeant-Major F. J. Armstrong, Wellington Regiment, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long Service Medal. He has served for over twenty years.

• Mr. T\ r . Heslop, secretary Hastings branch of the New Zealand Veterans' Association, is visiting .Wellington. News lias been reoeived that. Lieuten-, ant TT. Tailby, of the Twenty-first Rein- . forcements, is returning to Isew Zealand, having sustained wounds and shell-shock in action. Lieutenant Tailby is a son of Mrs. W. Tailby. of Auckland, and has many friends in Wellington. The resignation of Dr. Christie from the staff of the Wellington Public Hos- < pital was accepted by the board yesterday with Tegret. . Mr. J. H. Malcolm, headmaster of Te Aro School, left for Taihape 'yesterday afternoon in consequence of the receipt of news that Ms father, who is acting as principal of the District High School there during the war, is seriously ill. Mr. Malcolm, senr., -retired some years ago from the headmastorship of the Christchuroh District High School.

Cable advice has been received from London that Sergeant G. B. Dall, who left New Zealand with the Divisional Signalling Company of the Fourteenth Mnforcements, and wlio has been on special service on the Western front for tlie past six months, has received a commission in the Royal Engineers Lieutenant Dall is the eon of Mr. G. B. Dall, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Cable news was received yesterday by Mrs. Caddick, of Hanson Street, that Sergeant A. E. Caddick has been transfered to the New Zealand Government Hospital at Brockenhurst. He is reported as having been severely wounded. Bv the death of Mr. James C. Watts at Hastings last week, Hawkes Bay has lost a settler of many years standing. He was the sou.-* of the late Mr. Wilhapi Watts, who arrived by tho elup Arab m 1841, and settled in Wellington. From his boyhood days the deceased was engaged'in bush and • genoral farm work, including shearing m Australia and .various parts of the South Island, travelling from Invercargill to Picton on horseback. 'In 1873 he removed to Hawlie's Bay. and for a number, of yearß took up droving, making several journeys through the roadless Waikato, and turther north, also through the Manawahi, Rangitikei, and Wanganui districts. >in those days many of the livers and creeks had to be punted or forded, and it was no easy matter to handle a big mob ot slieep or herd of cattle. In 1850 Mr. Watte settled in Hastings, and- started farming on his own account, and had resided there until his death, at the age of 69 years. He took a great interest in. station work, and for many years was a member of the Hawke s Bay A. and r. Association. A widow and two grownur> daughters will have tlie empathies tit a large circle' of friends throughout Hawko's Bay and. Wellington.

' The annual leport of tlie Wellington Provincial Lawn Tennis Association states that the committee regrets to record the' deaths, • killed in action .n Francs, of Major Fleming Boss and Serjeant F. W. Crombie, hoth nctive members of the committee prior to their denarture for the front. During the past year the oommittee has _lost two of its members, Messrs. H. A. 0 Donahoo (hon. treasurer and W. D. Irons, who havo recently left for the front. On behalf of the association the committee tenders its sympathy with the relations of those players who havo given their lives for th'o Empire. Mr. H. F. Kobertson. third son of Mr. A- floberteon, Happy Valley Station,_ enlisted last Tuesday, having only attained his twentieth birthday last Saturday.

llr. Harold Bowden, late manager of the "Very Good Eddie" Company, has arrived in Wellington to make forwnrd arrangements for tlio new J. and in. isit Company, which is to play Turn t° tto Right" and "The New Henrietta The season will coromenco nerc on Ootobcr c.