PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 109, 25 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. H. Hemes, who has been confined to bed almost continuously for three weeks with an injury to bis ankle, has now nearly recovered, and it is expected that ho* will be able to come down to his office next week.

Tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald will arrive in Wellington from Christchurch this morning.

. Mr: W. Downie Stewart, M.P., ',heis at present at Leura, in the Plus Mountains, New South "Wales, expects to be able to return to Dun-jdin r.ext month.

Tho Hon. Nelson-Hood, of Melbourne, who has been on a short visit to New Zealand, has returned to Australia.

Mr. John Logan Stout, LLB., eldest son of the Chief Justice, haa been appointed a stipendiary magistrate, and he will sit in the South Otago district. Mr. Stout, who is well known in Wellington, was admitted to the Bar in 1905. He' practised his profession in Wellington, and for some time he was reporter, editor, and secretary of tho New Zealand Law Reports. ' He has also acted as associate' for the Chief Justice.

The Governor-General has recognised provisionally the appointment of Mr. Lin ShihYuan as Consul for the Republic of China for New' Zealand at Wellington.

Mr. Will Widdowson, Resident Engineer of tho Public AVorks Department .at Nelson, died suddenly last evening. Mr. Widdowson had been stationed at Nelson for about six years, having previously been in char'go of tho construction of tho Catlins-Rox-burgh railway. He leaves a widow, two sons (both 'at the front), ' and three daughters.—-Press Assn. Captain D. S. Chisholm, adjutant of the 3rd Battalion, Otago Regiment, has been appointed a staff captain to the 4th Infantry Brigade. Captain Chisholm is n son of Mr. W. Chisholm, of Nelson.

Mr. George Bennott, of Brooks Street, Nelson, has been advised that his son, Corporal J. AV. Bennett, was wounded for the fourth time on January 5. A later cablegram stated that Corporal Bennett was transferred to Southwark Military Hospital at Dulwich, suffering from a severe gunshot wound in tho left arm. Corporal Bennett enlisted on the outbreak of war and served eight months in Samoa. .Returning to New Zealand lie left with the Seventh .Reinforcements' and served in I'lgypt for live mouths and later in France, where ho received his four wounds. Mr. Bennett has two other sons in France.

The Rev. AY. A. Sinclair, president of the- Methodist Conference, is leaving New Plymouth to attend the annual meeting of tho Board of Foreign Missions to ho held in Sydney. Mr. Sinclair is one of the New Zealand representatives on tho board, the others being the Rev. A. C. Lawry (Christchurch) and Mr. J. Court (Auckland).

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill states that Mr. /Palmer Gore, manager of the Albion Pictures, died suddenly yestorday morning. He had a slight heart seizure the previous evening, but remained on duty. Deceased was for many years associated with Hayward's Pictures.

On Monday evening Mr. E. H, Richardson and Mr. H. Winder (a returned soldier), of the Post and Telegraph Department stores branch, were the recipients of suitable tokens of esteem from their fellow employees on their departure for garrison duty at Samoa. Mr. Nicholls, Assistant Controller, who made the presentations, remarked thait was very gratifying to notice that men who had already been wounded in Europe wore still willing to do "their bit" in any part of the Empire.

Rov. W. and Mrs. Shircr returnod from Nelson by tho Pateona yesterday.

Tlie Poll of Honour published this morning announces the death in action of Rifleman James Wilson. Rifleman Wilson enlisted in the Twenty-sixth. Reinforcements and left New Zealand in .Tune. Previous to joining the Army ho resided in Central Torrace, Kelburn, and was employed in the wholesale department of Messrs. E. W. Mills find Co.'s warehouse. On occasions he also did travelling for the firm. 'Hie late Rifleman Wilson wns well known in the Pnkeina district, where he spent a good deal of hisleisure time, lie was 39 years of age. One of his brothers, H. F.'Wilson, will leave for the front with the Thirty-fourth Reinforcements, and another, Andrew, will be going into camp in April. After a susnense of nine months, Constable W. H. Stewart, the Supreme Court orderlv, has been advised by the Defence Department, of the Conimonwenlth that his son, Private E. J- Stownrt, who went to (.he front witb the Twelfth Battalion, A.1.F.. was Mulled yv. nation between April 6 and 10, UU. Constable Stewart was notified 111 April last that his son had been wounded and wasimssinn:, and it is only jiow that definite information has been received. N Private Stewart was 26 years of age and enlisted in Tasmania. Tho death is announced from Auckland of Mr. Phillip Rosser, of Ponsonbv, in his 81st year. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he gave no indication of anv illness,, and he passed away peacefully in his sleep. Heart trouble was the cause of death. The late Mr. Rosser arrived in New Zealand from South Wales in the ship Rokeby Hall in October, 1873, and passed the most 'of his life at Mangerc as a farmer. In 1912 he sold his farm awl removed to Ponsonhvj, where he resided till Ins death. He leaves a widow. Messrs. W. Rosser, builder, of Rcmuera; Arthur Rosser, J.P.. of Epsom; and Joseph Rosser, of Rotorua, are nephews.

An old resident of Auckland, Mr. Edwin Hollowav, died at Ins residence, Mount Eden, on Monday. He vas bo-n in Northumberland, England, m 1833, and arrived in New Zealand by the ship Hanover in 1862.

Mr. aiid Mrs. H. Jacob, of Naseby, have received advice from the Minister of Defence that their son, Sergeant E C Haddou Jacob, lias been awarded the D.C.M. for distinguished service and gallantry in the field. At tho battle of Pnssohendaclo Ridge tho company of. which Sergeant Jacob is a member, went in- 250 strong, and retv.rred with only 26 men. All bis offcers were either kdled or wounded, aad he took charge of the company, and to the fact that he led -t through «vh. distinction is due the awerd which he has secured. Sergeant J?cob left New Zealand with the Third fiein-forccn-dits, and saw service Gs.Hipoii Peninsula, as well .as in France. H<! has been wounded twice—oneo at GallhwH and once slightly /in' France. He was born at Naseby, and was educated at the District High School m that town. ..

The "Patea Press" records the death of Mr.W. Dickie, of Waverley. Mr. .Dickie, who has suffered from internal 'complaints for many years, was taken seriously ill a few days ago, and removal to the Patea Hospital was advised. Complications, however, set in before bo could bo removed, and ended fatally on Saturday morning.

Mr. James Miller has been appointed Sheriff for the district of Wairarapa, and Clerk of the Court at Masterton.

Mr. G. R. N. Wright,.of. Welling-, ton, has heon appointed a member of the Revaluation Committee under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1915. for the Wellington Land District.

Among the members appointed this week to revaluation committees under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1915, are Mr. ,W. A. M'Cutoheon, of Wliangamomona (Taranaki Land District), and Mr. T. Hewetson, of Upper Moutere (Nelson Laud District).

Nows has been leceived of the death in action in France of Sapper Jack Gorton, youngest son of the late Colonel Gorton. When the war broke out he .was farming in the Argentine. He immediately proceeded to England and enlisted, serving right through the Gallipoli campaign, where he was severely wounded. Later he was sent to the Western front;

Last evening the Wellington City Council expressed sympathy with Councillor W. H. Bennett and Mrs. Bennett in the loss of their son. Mr; C. F. Collins, of tho Timaru Main School, ,Ims been appointed headmaster of the Geraldine District High School.

The Rev. Father Creed, for many years in charge of the Kumara parish, iias been transferred to Christchurch. He will bo succeeded at Kumara by tho Rev. Father O'Hare, formerly of Ahaura.

By the death it Dunedin of Mr. William A. Ewing another of the early pioneers of tho Dominion has gone. Mr. Ewing was born at Craigmill, near Stirling, Scotland, in 1838. 1 He came out in the ship Seville in 1859, took part in the Gabriel's, Waipon, and Dunstan diggings, and later visited Australia for the Snowy River diggings, but soon returned to New ZeaFand. and settled in Otaao.