PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 72, 18 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) will he at the openin<r of the new section of the Raetihi railway to-day. He will bo back in Wellington to-morrow. Sir James Allen will go to-day to Napier." He will return to Wellington on Friday. The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works, returned to Wellington by yesterday's Auckland express. The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald will arrive this afternoon from the nortn by the Main Trunk train. ' The Hon. G. W. Russell is to leave for Napier to-morrow for the purpose of opening the new Maternity Home in that town. Mr. S. S. Williams, of Oriental Bay, has been advised that his son, Lieutenant A. G. Williams, who has been paymaster to the New. Zealand Forces in Eevpt, has been promoted to be captain! Ho has been in Egypt now for over two years. Advice was received yesterday that Private Charles Hinds, a relative o Mrs. M. Williams, of Wellington, nad been awarded the Military Meda . 1 nvate Hinds, who is 36 years of age, left as a member of the Twenty-first Reinforcements, and was, previous to enlisting, a metal-worker in tho employ of Luke's Foundry. Ho was born ;n Kennington, London, but has lived in New Zealand for many years. A Press Association message from Christchurch states :-Mr. Edward Kennedy died suddenly on Saturday in the eoiisulting room of a local doctor, whom be was about to consult Deceased was well known m Labour circles, ami especially as secretary of tho Shearers' Union. Lieutenant-Colonel Gard'ner, of Dunedin, is returning to New Zealand at an early date. He has been at tho front for over two years. Mr. VerbnijTghen, the Belgian bead of the New South Wales Government Conservatorium of Music, who is leaving Sydney on a trip to America, has been 'farewolled at Paris House, Sydney, by tho professors and staff of the institu tion,

Madame Elsie Dayies, who is to sine tho soprano role in "Tho Messiah with the Choral Union at the Town Hall to-morrow evening, is at present in Wellington. Sir Walter Davidson, the Governordesignate of New South AValcs, and late Governor of Newfoundland, has been heartily farewclled in that colony, lie is duo to lenvo London at the end of the present mouth. Captain L. Robertson, officer in chnrgo of the Wakatipu steamer service, who offered his services to the Admiralty some months ago, has now been advised l>y the Imperial Government to hold himself in readiness to proceed shortly to England, where he will go into naval training immediately. On his record Captain Robertson lias lieen- given a sub-lieutcnnncy in the Royal Navy Reserve. Mr. David Mills, a director of the TJuion Steam Ship Company, is at present in Wellington. Lieutenant Cyril Brown, of tho N.Z. Artillery, whose death from wounds was reported yesterday, was the fourth son of Mr. Wm. Brown, of Messrs. Laory and Co. The late Lieutenant Brown was attached to the eighteenpounder battery in Flanders. In his youth ho was a lieutenant iu tho College Cadets, and later wae an enthusiastic Territorial officer. In 1916 he passed his captain's examination, but lie was never given that rank. The statement published yesterday that Lieutenant Brown was in charge of the Npahauranga fort was not correct. His service before he left for the war was .it Fort Dorset. General Richardson was present at Lieutenant Brown's funeral.