PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General, the Countess of Liverpool, and the personal staff of Government House left for Cliristchurch on Saturday evening by the Mararoa. They will probably reside in Cliristchurch for the next three months. The many friends of Mr. David Robertson, of the Phoenix Foundry> regret to learn that ho is again very ill. A recent relapse bas deprived him almost entirely of his eyesignt. The latest hospital report includes Major R. W. Hannah (of the Royal Artillery), second son of Mr. Robert Hannah, of Boulcott Street. He has been reported dangerously ill.

Sergeant-Major David Dunlop died at tho Auckland Veterans' Home on Thursday last, aged 82 years. Ho was bom in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and onlistod in- the 72nd Foot at Edinburgh, volunteered to the 42nd Highlanders in March, 1854, and wopt to the Crimea with the regiment, and took- part in tbo battles of tho Alma, Balaclava, and siege and capturo of Sevastopol. The veteran went with his regiment to India in 1857, and was present at the siege and capture of Lucknow, also the battle of Molygar. Ho was subsequently transferred to the 43rd Regiment, and came to New Zealand in 1863. He was present with tho 43rd at tho battles of tho Gato Pa, also at the battle of To Eangi. After the war he took his discharge at Auckland at his own request. After being discharged he worked _ on the various goVdfields of the Dominion for thirty-seven years. Ho had the medals for Crimea, Turkish, Indian Mutiny, and New Zealand. Major Oatler returned to Wellington yesterday morning from the south. A cable message to tho Australian papers states that Alexander Boyd, an Australian and a petty officer in the Royal Navy Air Service, who was taken prisoner in September, has been sentenced to imprisonment for a year in Germany for referring to tho_ Germans as Huns. Boyd's mother is endeavouring to obtain the cancellation of this unjust sentenco. Boyd states that lie used the words inadvertently, and he did not intend to insult his captors.

Private David Nelson, reported died of wounds, served with the late Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition, in 1903-04, and later was a member of the engineering staff of the'Nimrod in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition in 1908, for which he received the Service Medal. Private Nelson left with the Twenty-second Reinforcement.

Mr. William Penny, one of the first settlers in the Sandon district, and well known all over New Zealand, died on Saturday 'morning, aged 82. He resided at Sandon for about half a century.

Lieutenant H. C. Danes, of the Royal Engineers, who is serving in France, has boon promoted to the rank of captain. Captain Davies is tho son of Major-General R. H. Dnvies, C.8., who is commanding a large training centro at Cannock Chase. Father Herring arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from Timaru.