PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 40, 10 November 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Hop. A. I/. Herdman left t Auckland yesterday morning. ' The Hon, W. Eraser is expected bai . from tho South. Island this morning. The Hon. Or. W. Russell, Minister Internal Affairs, is expected to arri from Christchnrch this morning, and , V the Main Trunk lino toßotorua. I ivill _ inspect tho soldiers' , convalesce: hospital there, and then will lake a re In the North Island after (lie work the session. Bishop Brodie, who has been on Visit to Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, wi • return to. Christcliiirch to-day. He wi be present at the Jfarist Brothers' ce tenary celebrations in Timaru 011 Mo: day. Advice has lieeu received that Captui J. B. Sine, M.P., has been woundc Captain Hine.is serving with the Ne Zealand Mounted Rifles, and he is ther fore in the Palcstjne theatro of the wa It' is reported tnat lie has suffered ' gunshot wound in the chest, but thei pre no particulars as to the severity < the wound. Good news has been received regardir the health of Mr. W. Downie Stewar M.P., who returned from the front aboi . a year ago, suffering from acute vllfcl jnatism. Not long after the i-pening < ' the Parliamentary session ho wont I Sydnoy to undergo some special treal inent, and in his most recent letters h has stated that he has had the t:-«>: .went, and that he is better in lealtli, The Hon. W. Eraser, Minister 0 Public Works, will arrivo from tho sout. this morning. The Rev. W. B. Halford, who hn died of wounds on a Western battlefield was a member of the Twenty-fourth Re inforcements, with the Tank-of sergeant Prior to enlisting. Sergeant Halford wa; acting as supply for Chftpl.iii Dutton, of the Caversham Presbyteriai Church, Dunedin. Sergeant Halford la: relatives residing in Kaikoura. Mr. Haldane, of Takaka, is a visitoi to Wellington.. • Mr. Gavin Menzies, of the local Postft staff, has been transferred: to Dunedin. Mr. Richard Stewart, for many years oh the managerial staff of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., has severed his connection with that firm. He is at present residing 111 Sydney. I / Mr. G. L. H. Cuninerham, for many years well known in Wellington -as an auctioneer in partnership with the late Mr. R. T. Badhani, died suddenly at the Hotel Windsor, Wellington, on Thursday. Mr. Cunningham, who was unmarried, was born in Cullybachy, County Antrim, Ireland, 69 years ago. and came <0 New Zealand in 1856. For some years lie lived on the West Const, and later was with the firm of Hudson and Co., Dunedin.' He was then managing the Farmers' Co-operative Association in jhinedin, after which he was for tweiitytwo years with- Greig and_ Company, coffee merchants, of Dunedin. When he came to Wellington ho was most successful in the auctioneering business, and retired a few years ago. He was well known all over New Zealand, and was noted for his geniality and kindness.' He Was a writer of verse, and his nome do plume, "Comet," is favourably known in literary circles. Mr. Cuningliam also ■' took a keen interest in musical matters. His only surviving brother is Mr. W. C. Cuningliam, of Teilding, and his nephew is Mr. J. E. Cuningliam, solicitor, of Christcliurch.' Mr. A. E. Brockett,- if.A., of Nelson College, formerly a senior cricketer in Wellington, has been appointed to the staff of Christchurch Technical College as asistant-master of the day school and Rssistant-superintendent of the evening classes. "Cabled advice was received by Br. Perkins yesterday that his ddeot son, Eric Temple Perkins, who left as a gunner in the Main Body for service on Gallipoli, and who obtained his commission the. R.F.A. in Egypt, has been promoted' captain. Captain Perkins has been.two years in Salonika. ' ' .. Dr.. Mackin,. who has been recuperating in the Taranaki district, returned to Wellington by motor la*t evening. After being medical superintendent of . Waimate -Hospital for twenty-five years, Lieutenant-Colonel Barclay resigned this -week. -He is-now in England at Royal Army Medical Corps work.-'When war was declared h.e. was in Tokio.en route' for .Britain on "eighteen months' leave- of .absericet' Si'nfce'lviS 'locum tenens,. .Dr.; Gillies Borne, left for the' front, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Barclay's' hospital position las been kept going by Drs. Hayes (now also at the front), Pitts and M. Cruiokshank. The Hospital Committee resolved, to postpone consideration yf the resignation till next .morning. - The death of -Mr. George Lambie, a well-known Canterburv pioneer, has rpeurred at Mayfield. Mr. Lainbiss health had been failing for some time past, but up to the 'last his. mind retained much of its freshness and 'nergy. He was born -in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1832, and 'came out in-the Crysollite in-the year 1862 to New Zealand. An old resident of Tauranga, Mr. William Jordan, died last week, aged 7-1 years.' 'Mr; Jordan was born in Wanburgh, Wiltshire, England, and he came to New Zealand in 1876. and joined lus brother, Mr. R. C. .Tordan, in an auc-tioneering-business. For-, many Tears, ho 'to drive stock. •bst'n'per* rtki TKalhe's,'via'Rotorua and Tauranga. Beis survived by a- vidow and four children. Two'sons-are.--at the ■ p ront, am nn¥- Brother, Mr,. J. 8.-. Jordan, resides at Ellerslie. ' .T.h&- other- -brother, Mr. K. C. Jordan, lives at Tauranga.