PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 48, 20 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major-Gonoral Sir Alfred Robin, Commandant of the Forces, is expected to lot urn to Wellington to-morrow. His Majesty's Trado Commissioner (Mr. R. W. Dalton), who has been absent in Auckland for the last fortnight, will return to Wellington to-morrow. A Press Association cablegram from London states that tho Hon. Neil Primrose, M.P., has died of wounds in Palestine. Tho Hon. Neil Primrose is tho youngest eon of tho Earl of Rosebery. Last year he was a lieutenant in tho Bucks Yeomanry. Ho was Parliament? nry Under-Secretary to tho Foreign Office, 1915-16, and Parliamentary Military Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, in 1916. He represents the Wisbech Division of Cambridge in tho House of Commons. Mr. J. A. Ambrose, assistant land re- ' gistrar and i deputy-registrar of deeds at tho Canterbury Land Office, will retire on a pension at the end of the current month. Mr. Ambrose commenced his servica under tho old Provincial Governi mont forty-one years ago, and has ever sinco beon in the service of the Lands Department. Captain W. J. Hardham, Y.C., has reported in Featherston Camp for duty, and has been posted to tho Thirty-fifth Mounted Rifles. Mr. Andrew Bain, 8.A., headmaster of; the Qoraldine District High School, was last night unanimously selected by the Wnimate District High School Committee to fill the vacant headmastership re cently vacated by Mr. George Pitcaithly. Three names were submitted by the Canterbury Education Board, the other two being Mr. Low, of Blenheim, and Mr. Colee, of Christchurch. The board had received' twenty-two applications for the position.—Press Assn. An old and respected resident, Mr. William Brickley, died at tho Wellington Hospital on Friday.. Tho late Mr. Brickley arrived in New, Zealand about 42 years ago in the ship Jessie Eedmond. For the past couplo of years ho had been living with his son Mr, Robert Brickley, 'of Petone. About nine months sinco ne I suffered a paralytic stroke, and gradually sank. Ho leaves two sons and one daughter. The interment look place at liarori yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bentley Russoll has Tecoverod sufficiently to leave the Wellington Hospital. He will leave this week for tlie llotuoka district to Tecruit his health. Advice has beon received that Second Lieutenant G. R. Jackson, of Masterton, who left with a mounted division, has been wounded in action in Palestine. Platoon Sergeant T. A. Snelling, late oi Porangahau and Napier, has just cableu his parents from France that he is well and is leaving for England, recommended for a commission. bergeant Snelling, who left with the Thirteenth Reinforcements, is under 21 years of age. He was wounded on the Somme, and ha& just spent another fivo weeks in the field. Tho death is announced by a private cable message of Lieutenant Sydney V. Paul, of the New Zealand Forces, who, after fighting through the Gallipoh campaign and France, was killed on Octobei 23 in France. Lieutenant Paul, was a son of tho lato Mr. James Paul, a noted exponent of bowls in New Zealand, who took a New Zealand team to England soino yoars ago. Ho also ,visited Australia on two occasions with teams from the Dominion, and is well known in Melbourne. The young officer, who was 2i years old, has two brothers also on service.

An old colonist of Auckland, Mr. Phillip John Birch, died on Wednesday last, aged 71. Mr. Birch, who was a master painter, arrived in Auckland by the ship Dauntless in. 1885, and two years later went to Timings, whoro ho rceidea for 34 venro. Tie saw sorvice in the Maori .War, under Major von Tempsky, nn<l wns for many years connected with tho Thames Ttifle Rangers. Ho was also nns of the founders of the Thames 'Fire Brigade. Ho removed to Auckland about 1G years ago, and Tesided there up to the tinie of his death. He wub married in Auckland, in 1866, and is survived by a widow and fivo children. ,