PERSONAL ITEMS
The Hon. W. 0. F. Carncross, ActingSpeaker of the Legislative Council, has leceived a very large number of telegrams of sympathy relating .to the death of h!S son, 2nd Lieutenant 0. C. Carncross, killed in action on the West front. A telegram from tho Governor-General rsvds: "The Governor-General is coiumandoTi to inform you that the King and the Oueen deeply regret the loss you and tho Army have sustained by the death of your son, 2nd Lieutenant C. C. Carncross, in the service of tho country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with von in your sorrow." Tho .private secrelary to the Governor-General telegraphed: "I am directed to convoy'to you an exprossion of their Excellencies' sincere sympathy in the sad loss which you have suffered,'
Mr. C. H. Howorth, late engineer to the Wanganui Harbour Board, and a well-known artist, has taken up his residence in Wellington, and intends to practise here as a consulting .engineer. Air Howorth, who was ono of Wanga : nui's bowlers, has joined the Wellington Bowling Club.
A Press Association dispatch from AucKand reports the death of the Hon. William BeeTiau, ex-M.L.C, from . erysipelas, following on :poisoning caused by an insect bite. Tlio late }Ir Baelian was born in Kerry, Ireland, in 1803, and arrived in New Zealand in 18/4. After a period on tho goldticlds, he entered the sen-ice of the late Mr. John Cosgrovo, of Auckland, afterwards being m tho emplot of Hoiloway, Garlick, and Co. He subsequently started business independently. He had always been a keen supporter of tho Liberal Party, and in 1800 was chairman of tho Central Liberal Committee. The late Mr. Beetanwas. called to the Legislative Counoi In Jnne. 11)03. In the Legislative Council on Saturday, Sir Francis Bell stated that he had telegraphed to Mrs. Beehau conveying the sympathy and sorrow of the Council. , He said he would move formally on tho subject on another, occasion. Fairfield Thompson, who died of wounds in France on October 4, left New Zealand with the Twenty-second Reinforcements (Rifle Brigade). Ho was the thai of Mr. Fairfield Thompson, of Kimboltou Road, Feildinjf, and before he enlisted was on tho staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at Feikling, and later at Hawera. Ho leaves a widow and two young children. AnI other son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 airfield Thompson, son, (William), was wounded on October L
Mr. J. M. Wilson, who recently underwent a serious operation, is now progressing satisfactorily. \
Tho death occurred at Pahiatua last night of Mrs. John VUc. senr., at tho age of 100 years. Tho late Mrs. Vile arrived in Wellington by tho ship Oliver Laing, in 1856.
The first Anglican chaplain belonging to New Zealand to make the supreme sacrifice in tho present war is'the Rev. G. S. Bryan-Brown, of Christchurch. At the suggestion of-Bishop Averill, the Auckland Anglican Synod earned a resolution expressing its sympathy with the deceased chaplain's relatives, and assuring them of its high appreciation of his sincere Christian character and his splendid influence among the boys of Christ's College, Christchurch.
News has been received that Colonel W. L. H. Burgess, D,S:O., has been promoted to brigadier-general and transferred to the command of the 4th Divisional Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Brigadier-General Burgess is well known in New Zealand.' When war hroke out he was on loan from the Dominion to the Commonwealth Government. He left Australia with the Main Body of the Australian Imperial Force and served on Gallipoli and later in France.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 29, 29 October 1917, Page 4
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