PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 19, 17 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cablegram from Melbourne records the death of Major "Wardill, of international cricket teams i'amo. Sir Alfred ftobin, Surgeon-General Henderson, and Majors Nutsford and Porrit were passengers for tho south by tno Mararoa last evening.

Inspector Hendrcy, of Wanganui, formerly of Wellington, is visiting the cuy. The Bev. Dr. Cleary (Catholic Bishop of Auckland) is expected to return to New Zealand very shortly.

Dr. Fitchott. late Public Trustee, will leave for Auckland to-day to lake np his residence there. He intends to resume the practice of the law in the northern city, in partnership with Messrs. Napier and Smith.

Mr. Robert Triggs, before leaving the G.P.O. buildings for tho Public Trust Office, was presented by a few friends with a silver cigarette case and a case of pipes as a token of esteem, "he presentation was made by Mr. W. R. Morris (Secretary to the Post yiud ielegraph Department). ' Last evening the Wellington Branch of tho Educational Institute passed a resolution of sympathy with the relatnes of Second-Lieutenant J. Hardsell and Gunner W. Okeby, two young leachtts who had fallen recently at tho front.

Lieutenant Douglas Freeman, of the Australian Imperial Forces, who was Killed in action in l'V.nice 011 September - , was in tho service of Ihs Western Australian Government when war was (iiolsrcd, and immediately v«]tiHteercd f active service. He had previously ceci service in the Boer War. On ,' 1 Freeman leaving for the. iron! Ins m e rover with herUvo little; Wdli^ton; and died a few months after her arrival. The death took place f), -f J™,» W/vlli«frfnn vcars flRO* find I« n'tSt Pack's College and Riverview Collie (Sydney). At the time of enlisliu" he was studying dentistry hoie. Vlo joined the flh Artillery .Itanforeementf. and saw service >n Ifijpt ami France being wounded on the Sommo. Ho contracted tuberculosis whilst on active service, and was » n J' a ] u,e < l to New Zealand seven months ago. , He was a crack oarsman and was also a member of the Wellington I'oolball riub Mr Tcrnnndoss onlv other son left with tho Main Body. A military funeral will be hold this aitcrnoon.

Mr. Ernest Drake, the .Auckland tenor, is being farewelled in that city prior to leaving to tako up hit? residcnco in Australia <it tho end of the year, Mr. Drake is to sing tho tenor music in "Tho Messiah" at Dtwedin on Docember 11, and in Wellington, with the Choral Union, a few days later. At Featherston on Monday night (reports our correspondent), Private Joseph Higginson, well-known in tho district, who is to leavo with tho Thirty-second Keinforcemont, was the recipient of a presentation from a number of sportsmen friends of a pair of field-glasses. Hr. A. C. Holms made the presentation. Tho •piest was also the recipient of a presentation, in the form of a cheque, from Mr. Allen Donald, Mr. M. IC. Kendall being the spokesman for the donor. The 6ontiments expressed by both speakers were endorsed by Mr. L. T. Cobcroft, and the health of Private Higginson enthusiastically honoured.

The Wellington delegates at the next conference of the New Xealcnd Educational Instituto will bo Miss P. Myers, Messrs. E. H. Ballachey, W. W. Eovrntree, and A. C. Blake.

A cable message in the Australian papers reports that Major-General G. T. M. Bridges, C.M.G., D.5.0., has had to have a leg amputated. When ho held tho rank of major in tho first weeks of the war ho was the hero of the incident of St. Quentin. He was sent hack to rally 250 stragglers in tho retreat from Mons, and found them in a state of collapse. Bridges purchased a toy drum and a penny whistle in a village shop, and with an improvised band rounded un the men. who laughed, despite their weariness, and led them in a march of 28 miles.