PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 7, 3 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Edwards, who has been under medical treatment in a' private hospital in Palmewton for some time, haa so far improved that he has been able to leave the' institution. Surgeon-General Henderson has returned to Wellington from a visit to the south. On 'Saturday last he paid a visit of inspcetton to the Queen Mary .Hospital at Hanmer Springs. Word has been received that Captain W Wood, of Napier, brother of Mrs. b. F.'Hadfield, Wollington, has. been appointed aide-de-camp to Maior-Qeneral Sir Arthur Enssell. Captam Wood, who has been in France over a year, had a lucky escape during the Messines operations, his horse being sliot under him. Mr 3? W. Manton, president of the Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, who, when corse grubbin" at -his property at Northland,- tell over a cliff and sustained serious injuries, continues toi make good progress tovards recovery. •

The Eev. J. G. Castle, of Island Bay lias been appointed editor of the Wellington Church Chronicle, in succession to the Eev. B. H. Hobday, who has gone to Bltham. 1 The death is reported by Press Association message from Dannevinke of the Eev. E. Eobertshawe, aged GO. Deceased attended the Anglican Synod at Napier last week. Yesterday morning he went to consult his medical adviser, and dropped dead in the surgery. He had been a, resident of Dannevirke for thirty years, and was in charge of that parish during the whole of the period.

Dr. Donald Wilson, fon of. Mr. George Wilson of Brougham Street, has arrived in Sydney after a: three months' trip from Bombay. Dr. Wilson, who has been five and a half years away from Wellington, qualified m medicine some years ago, and practised for a time, in Glasgow and Greenock. Then, wishing; to take some higher degrees, he went back to study at Edinburgh, and was there •when the war broke out He atpnee offered his services, and before the Germans had swept over Belgium he wae under orders to help in the establishment of a big base Tiospital at Ostend They were about to land with all the equipment for the_ hospital when they ■were ordered to wait, and later were instructed to proceed with the work at Boulogne, where the great Casino was 'transformed into a hospital in double qK time. Still later Dr. Ween went to the front with the Eoya *«M Arfallery, and through the battles of Ncuve Chapelle and Festubert. Later his regiment was ordered out to Mesopotamia, and there Dr. Wilson d>4R ood , wo eighteen months. Mrs. Wilson, who has been staying in Welling on, left.for Australia, recently to meet her husband. Tne death is announced of Mr. Charles Saundors, the renowned Ashton-under-Lyne tenor, who toured these.parts several years ago, and among other engagements sang the tenor solo music in tho Wellington" Musical Union's performance of "The Messiah," and was also heard here in "The Spectre's Bndo, lne Golden Legend," and "Judas Maccabaeus." finnnor'L D. Belton, who has been alrdedthe Military Medal for d,stinBelton, of Broofaidc, ofj rs SSS3riiV»I?W, has rejoined his •unit.

Mr. T. O'Brien, who has been appointed exhibitions manager to the N.Z. Picture Supplies, will leave for the south to-night on a tour of inspection. Tho many friends of that veteran Sunday fichool enthusiast, Mr. T. Sime, who has been laid asido for some considerable time, will bo glad to hear that he has sufficiently recovered to resume an active interest in Sunday sohool matters. Hβ attended his first evening on Monday, when he was present at the quarterly meeting of teachers of the Wellington, South Methodist Circuit, and recoivod a very hearty welcome.

Mr. G. P. Kent-Johnston, of Devonport, Auckland and formerly of Foxton and the Wairarapa, has cabled advico, as well as having been informed by tho Defence Department that his son, Lauce-Cornoral W. F. Kent-Johnston, has been discharged from the N.Z.E.F. in England, to take up a commission in the Imp6rial Forces, viz., the Boyal Artillery. Lieutenant Kent-Johnston left New Zoaland as a sapper with the Divisional Signal Company in the Main Body, and saw service in Egypt, Galltpoli, and France. At the beginning of this year he and nine other n.0.0.'s wore speoially selected by General Sir Alex. Godley for Imperial commissions in the Eoral Artillery, and wero eent over to England to undergo their training, which was complotod laet month, whon thuir commissions wore gazetted.