PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 96, 16 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey is ieturning from tho South Island this morning.

Sir James Allen is leaving for the south to-night.

Sir Joseph Ward is expected back from tbo south to-day.

The Hon. G. W. Russell is going to Cliristchurch to-night, and will return on Sunday morning. On Friday he will opon the New Zealand Bakeries Exhibition at Cliristchurch, and he will also meet tho United Master Bakers' Association, who wish to discuss with him tho use of margarine.

Brigadier-General Sir Robert Anderson is arriving here on January 28, and the Defence Expenditure Commission over which lie is to preside will commence business at once after his arrival.

Cable advice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clachan, Ohbo Hoad, from tho Governor of Nyassaliind, through His Excellency the Goy-enior-Gsneral, that their son, Captain W. J. Clachan (Middlesex Regiment), attached to the Ist King's African Rifles, was killed in action on Sunday, January 6, while serving in the East African campaign.

A Press Association cablcgrnti front London last evening reported the death of Lieutenant T. Handyside, of the Dublin Fusiliers, of Wanganui, who was killed in action.

The Revs. Father Tanguey and Fitzgibbon have arrived in New Zealand from America to tako up duties here. Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director of the Livo Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland.

Mr. Frank Perm, editor and proprietor of the "Otaki Mail," has left for Akaron to see his father, who is seriously ill. 'Mr. J. H. C. Bond, general traffic manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived in Wellington from the south by the Maiaroa yesterday morning. He .is on a holiday trip, and intends to proceed to Nelson. The Rev. J. Chapman, of Wesley Church, Wellington, is at present on a visit to Masterton. The death is reported from Ponsonby (Auckland) of Mrs. Wilson, mother of the late Lieutenant E. R. Wilson, ol Masterton. Lieutenant Wilson was one of the first officers killed in the Gallipoli campaign. Mr. George Wilkens, of AVakefield, Nelson, has received cable advice that his son, Driver Hedley Wilkens, of the Twenty-sixth Field Artillery, has been admitted to hospital in France, having been gassed.

Mr. W. H. M'Cormack, who -"-as secretary and manager of the South Melbourno cricket team which visited New Zealand about six years ago, is at present in Wellington on a business trip. Yesterday Mr. John Holdsworth, Havelock North, a member of the National Committee of the Y.M.C.A., passed through Wellington on his way to Mount Cook. Mr. G. A. 11. Mackay, man-no-er of the Bank of New South Wales at Napier, and hon. treasurer of the Hawke's Bay district Y.M.C.A., has heen appointed manager in the bank's service at Christchurch. Mr H. K. Wilkinson, of Dunedhi, a vice-president of the Y.M.C.A. at that city, was in Wellington yesterday to met his son, who has arrived from Australia to take up the position of manager of Rattray and Co. at Christchurch.

Sub-Inspector Broherg, who is being transferred from Auckland to Wellington, was for seventeen years in the detective branch of the service in this city, where he became chief detective, lie was transferred from Wellington to Dunediu to fill the position of subinspector and was transferred to Auckland in a similar capacity in April, 1916.

Trouper C. Freeman, who was a member of the Main Body, died yesterday. His remains will be interred at Karori Cemetery to-day.

Mr. William Gothard, one of the proprietor* of the Westport "Times and Star," a. journalist of many years standing was drowned while bathing on Utopia Beach yesterday, says . a Tress Association telegram from Westport. About 5 p.m. ho was seen in the water by others who had previously been bathing there. A little later a lad brought news that a man's body was lying on the edge of the water, and others came along and recognised it as that of Mr. Gothard. _ The body was still warm, and artificial respiration was tried for three-quarters of .in hour, but without success. A doctor on arrival pronounced life extinct and stated that death appeared to ba due to heart failure. Deceased was'a frequent bather on this part of the beach. Ho was 57 years of ago. He joined the "Times and Star" as an apprentice in 1874, subsequently becoming part proprietor.