PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., has been visiting Auckland.

Advice has been received in Blem* heim (states the Marlborough "Express") that Major 0. 11. Mead, who' received the temporary rank of lieu-tenant-colonel in September last, has. been promoted to full rank, and is now in command of his old battalion. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Mead is not'; yet 20 years of age, and probably has the distinction of being tho youngest officer of that rank in tho whole of tile New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Ho is a son of Mr. E. Mead, of Blenheim.

. Mr. M. Livingstone has been advisedl that his son Second Lieutenant Fred. J* Livingstone, of the Royal Flying Corps,, England, late of Christchurch, was killed in an aeroplane accident at Gainsborough oil January 12.

Private advice has been received in Christchurch that Mr. A. E. Cooper (of Sims, Cooper, and Co., Ltd.) has (says tho ''Press") been appointed Chief Live Stock Commissioner of Great Britain under tho Ministry of Food. The live stock, section has been formed to control the movements of all stock, and for the purpose of the control the country has been split up into nineteen areas. Mr. Cooper will bo responsible! for looking after the working of theso areas. In addition to these duties Mr. Cooper has an important post under the AVar Department's wool scheme and ho has been loaned to the Ministry of Food on the understanding that he returns to Bradford on May 1, and keeps in touch, with the wool-purchase business. Mr. A. M'Farlane, of Paliiatua, is a visitor to 'Wellington. A London cablegram has announced the death at the age of 84 of the Rev. Henry Montague Butler, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. The son of a Northampton country rector, who in his year had been senior wrangler at Cambridge, and was later headmaster at Harrow for 24 years, Henry Butler was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which college he was made a Fellow in 1855j when ha was seniot classic in tho Tripos. Four years later he followed in his father's footsteps by accepting the headmastership of Harrow, and holding it also for about a quarter of a country (1859-85). After a brief interval as Dean of Gloucester, he became master of Trinity College in 1886, holding this post to his death, and thus covering ill that office a term of over 31 years. Hia list of sermons and other publications is a lengthy one, but probably the work of most interest to the public will be his reminiscences, published in 1914, and entitled "Some Leisure Hours of a. Long Life." That in the course of this he found time to devote to athletics is shown by tho fact that when ii boy at Harrow lie secured a place in the school eleven, and later ho went in for mountaineering. Besides making ascents in the Alps, he climbed Mount and Mount Sinai the one famous in classic mythology and the other in Biblical history. Ho was twice married—in 1861 and 1888— and leaves five sons and two daughters.