PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 6, 2 October 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon! C. J. Johnston, Speaker of the Legislative Council, has considerably improved in health as a result of his trip to- America. He and Mrs. Johnston and their daughter (Mrs. Arthur Duncan) are expected back shortly. Dr. Cleary, Eoman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who has been absent from the Dominion for the past eighteen months, will return shortly, Monsignor Mahoney, diocesan administrator, has received a cable message from the Bishop stating that be bad arrived in America, and would leave for New Zealand at an ear y date. Bishop Cleary, since leaving Auckland, has paid an ad limina visit, to Home, and has spent some time in France, where he reorganised the Catholic chaplaincy services m connection with the New Zealand troops. He also has spent some weeks in tlie trenches and at the New Zealand hospitals in England as a chaplain. Lieutenant-Colonel P. 0. Andrew, who' was P.M.O. at Trentham Camp for two years, and subsequently sat as-a member of a medical service board, Las been appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services in the Auckland military district. Major J. P. D. Leahy, vho. saw service in Egypt and at Salonika, is at presest actfng .I?at Trentuain.

Mr. D. A. Ewan has resigned' from the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, as ho has taken up military duties at Featherston Camp.

Mr. Joseph Smith', J.P., an old resident of Parkville, near Eketahuna, died last week.

The death occurred in Masterton on Sunday of Mr. A. Tfapier, who had been a resident of the Alfredton district for many years. He leaves a widow, three sons, and four daughters. Two of the sons are on active service. The deceased was seventy-three years of age.

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce a motion of sympathy with Mr. P. W. Manton, president o£ tho Chamber, was pitssod. Mr. Manton met with a severe accident recently, and is now recovering..

: Mr. John Trussell, of Wanganui East, has been advised that his son, Private. TV. J. Trussell, was one of the victims of the railway accident at Beer Ferrers, England. The deceased, who was 27 years of age, left with the Twenty-eighth Keinfcycements. The suppliers of the Parkvale Dairy Company on Friday evening presented their late manager, Mr. .T. Linton, with a silver tea service. Mr. Linton is now. manager of the Dalefield Factory.

A Press Association message from Dunedin announces the death of exPolice Inspector Mallard. The deceased, who was in his 82nd year, was a fine stamp of disciplinarian, and was at all times noted for his knowledge of matters affecting tho Police Force. 1 After retiring from the force he took a keen interest in public matters in Dunedin. The late Mr. Mallard was formerly a member of the Victorian Police Force,and came to New Zealand in 1863, together with such other well-known members of the forco,as the Into Inspectors Pender, Hickson, and Broham, and others. He was stationed in Dunedin under Superintendent Weldon, and afterwards was at Port Chalmers, where he remained for seven years. He was also stationed in Tokomairiro district, and went then to Tuapeka, from which olace he was transferred back to Dunedin in 1871. The next year he was appointed inspector at Dunedin, and occasionally nctod as locum tenens for Mr. Weldon over the Middlo Island Police District. Tho late ex-insnector resigned from the force in 1880. One of the incidents connected with his service was in 1871, when practically tho wliolo of. the Police Force at Dunedin went on strike, and he and the superintendent and one or two ethers were obliged to take up thopolice work of -the city themselves, tho situation being relieved only by the arrival of armed constabulary, sent from Wellington. Tlie deceased wntlehian was the father of Mr. J. Mallard, secretary of tho National Insurance Company in Dunedin.

Advice Ifas been received in Wanganui by Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Milliard that their son, Plight Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth H. Millward, who was reported missing 011 July 7. is now reported in the German casualty lists as killed in action. This news has been confirmed by the Imperial Government. Lieutenant Millward's squadron-commander, writing on July 11 to Mr. Millward, said: "Your son was as staunch and reliable a member as ever I had. • Ho was always looked upon as h brilliant and taotful pilot. Ho lias been with me in many big flights, and has always shown such dash and excellent fighting qualities that he has been very successful in destroying the enomy. Ho left to do a job- over the lines, and was last seen keeping onemy 6couts away from a mach'ino ho was protecting." Lieutenant A. P. Berry, formerly of the Wanganui College, writing from England on July 31, to Mr. Millward. said: "Ken. was up against a tough thing, but I no doubt lie didn't go under without a Tight for it." Private Cyril Purser, of Wanganui, saw the fight in which Lieutenant Millward came to grief. "I was in the trenches at tha time," he v-rot", '"and saw the Hun 'plane strike Ken.'s machine on tlio wing. The German came toppling to the ground, and tlien Ken's machine followed." Deceased was liorn at Wanganni twenty years ago. and was educated at the Terrace School, Wellington, and at Wanganui College. Ho was a nephew of Mr. W. H. Millward, managing director of the Gear Me&t Company.

News lifts been received that Lieutenant S. D. Rogers, of the. Lower Hutt, lias been promoted captain. At the outbreak of war Liontenant Rogers was appointed Assistant Commandant for AVar for Somes Island, and later left with the 3rd Battalion of the N.Z.R.B. for the front. Captain Rogers is now a tiaffic officer in France, and is attached to the 2nd Anzac Army Corps. ,

Mrs. J. F. Reay, of Marotiri, Foxton, lias received information that her brother, Trooper P. Wl Francis, has been killed in action. Trooper Francis enlisted in the Sixth Reinforcements, and saw active servico at Gallipoli, and went 011 to jpranco and fought in the battles of the Somme and Messines. Previous to enlisting he followed farming at Ngapurua and Dannevirke. A man of splendid character and worth, ho was held in the highest esteem and respect by all who knew him. Another brother, who hnd returned wounded from the front, is in the Palmerston Hospital, where he is making good progress.