PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 124, 12 February 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman, ?x-Attor-ncy-General and Minister of Justice, who was sworn in as a Judge of the Supreme Court last week, took up his now duties yesterday. The Hon. G. W. Russell will leave tonight for Cliristcburch, and he will stay thero for the remainder of the week. The following is a copy of a cablegram received in Wellington yesterday from Sir Ernest <Shackleton, who is at present in South America on njwciul service for the imperial Government: — "On this anniversary of my return to Now Zealand from tuo Antarctic 1 wish to lot my friends and the public know that my memory of the great kindnesses show" 'o me in Now /.ealaud <ii'o as vivid as when received a. year ago."

A Press Association telegram from Groymouth records the death of Dean Carow, after a short illness, ;iged fa' 9, The late Dean Carew was a r.ativo of Tipperary, and for 34 years had charge of Westland Diocese. Tho Rev. W. Shirer, chaplain to tho Forces, has been appointed for duty in the Wellington district as chaplain to returned soldiers. Mr. E. Page,.S.M., being now engaged on the Northern Boundaries Commission, Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., of Morton, is to take over the Thames and Paeroa Court work during the absenco of tho Magistrate in charge. Mr. Robert L. Begg, for the past fifteen years head at;tioneer for tho Gore branch of the .National Mortgage Agency Company, has been appointed to the charge of the live stock (U'partment of the New Zealand Farmers' Coop. Distributing Company, Ltd.

On Monday of last week Mr. Edward G. M. C. Kenny, Government Laud Valuer, was thrown from his horse at Colliugwood *and was so seriously injured that ho died on Friday. The late Mr. Kenny was born at the Hutt in May, 1860, and was the eldest son of the Hon. C. A. W. T. Kenny, M.L.C. Ho was educated at Picton ind at Auckland, , and at tho age of 20 joined tho Armed Constabulary. After spending somo years farming in Marlborough Sounds he became district land valuer- for Maryborough. He was twice married. Owing to the shortage of staff in tho Nelson district he was transferred there to make the valuations in tho Collingwood County, and had been in the district abo.it twelve months.

Lieutenant W. M. Arcus, of tho Field Artillery, wlio met iiis Jeath near l'pres on October 11, was killed by a Gorman high velocity shell, whioh struck him as lie stood at the entrance to a "pill box," that, for the preceding ten days, had been his home. Peatn occurred almost immediately. '"His work," writes one of his senior officers, "has been very good throughout, especially since ho became an officer. . . . In several warm corners thaE lie has been in he did so well that he was specially mentioned to mo by his brigade commander. . . . His e'eath was a great loss to the company aid to me personally." Lieutenant A rcus is buried about a milo west of Ypres. He was the son of Mr. Samuel Areus, of the Wellington Harhour Board. Lieutenant Arcus left Wellington as a sergeant in the Main Body. An old identity, Mr. (Jharles Joseph Cottle, of Oottlevillo Terrace, died on Sunday, aged nearly 80. The lite,Mr. (Jottie, who was born at Swainswick, near Bath, Somerset, England, tu February 22, 1838, arrived in the -olony with his parents by the ship. Kathleen Stuart Forbes on June 12,1841. In his early days he carried on business as a blacksmith. Eventually he took up farming at Upper Belmont, and at Opuki, finally returning to Wellington some'2s years ago, and taking up his residence at Cottleville Terrace. The late Mr. Cottle had a family cf nine sons and six daughters. His wife and two of the sons predeceased him. The surviving sons are:—Messrs. J. J. Cottle (Kopuaranga), E. W. Cottle (Trentham), J. E. Cottle (Tβ. Horo),' C. 11. Cottle (Levin), A. B. ' Cottle (Mount Bruce), W. A. Cottle (Taita), and A. E. Cottle (Hopelands). The daughters iiv , —"Moraines J. W. Fox (Rongotea), E. E. Gose (Niraalia), H. V. Futter, T. M, Burke, H. F. Wright, and G. S. Heid (all of Wellingto.i).

News was received recently tf the death in action of Private Arthur Anderson, Machine-gun Section, jN'.Z.E.1 ,, ., son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Argyle Street, and formerly a member of the jobbing staff of The Dominion. In the course of a letter from Palestine to the lato Private Anderson's mother, Captain P. C. Harper, M.G. Squadron, conveys the sympathy of himself and officers and men of the cornpuny, and states: "Your sou had done most brilliant work, and was killed when Lβ had succeeded with two others in getting his gun in a position within point-Uanki range of the advancing Turks, greatly assisting in breaking up the attacking force and causing them to retire in disorder. His mates at the yun were also killed, and all set a great example of determination. He was greatly respected by everyone, and personally I always trusted him, no matter 1-cw hot the corner. We lost some of cur best men during the fight, hut succeeded in completely smashing up a new division of Turks with one brigade. Your son was buried by the chaplain with his two mates." .

Lieutenant W. Konnedy Eady, formerly of tho artillery, • Auckland, is now training non-commissioned officers in England. Lieutenant Eady wae in Berlin in 1914, and reached London just a few days before war was declared. He at once volunteered for service in the Ambulance, but was subsequently transferred to the artillery. Hβ was invalided home from Mesopotamia.