PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 134, 23 February 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The lTon. W. H. Horries, Minister of Railways, has gone to Auckland.

The Hon. T. M. Wilford is returning from Napier this evening.

The Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Minister of Customs and Munitions and Supplies, returned to Wellington by the Main Trunk express yesterday.

■" Advice lias been received thafe Trooper N. M. Douglas, of - Masterion, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. The Hon. Colonel Baillie, M.L.C., celebrated his ninety-first birthday ye's-terda-y. Owing to a recent family bereavement tiic birthday was kept very quietly, only a few older friends visiting him,, bun many congratulatory telegrailis were recoived during the day, one being .from the Bishop of Nelson conveying greetings from that diocese. Colonel and Mrs. Baillie aro on a visit t°; Upper Hutt,. btft are-returning to Wellington shortly.

The "Lj'ttelton Times" says that tha first appointment of Mr. E. D. Mosley, liewly-appointed Relieving . Stipendiary Magistrate, is to- Auckland, where ho will assume the duties of Magistrate and .Warden of. the Thames district, and where his intimate knowledge of mining procedure will be especially valuable.

: Lance-Corporal H. Fake, of the New Zealand Engineers, who has been awarded the Military -Medal; - was.born ■in Wellington 35 years ago, .and -was educated at the Newtown School. At the age of fifteen he went to Palmerston North, residing there for eight years, learning the trade of a bricklayer and'builder.'; He then went' to Wanganui for two years, afterwards going to Auckland, which city lie left with , the Ninth Reinforcements as a sapper. He went through the fighting at Armentieres, the battles of tha Soimne, Messiues, .and; Passchendaele, being wounded ■ at the Somme.

Mr. diaries llanson, manager of the Northern Stpam.ship Company, arrived in Wellington-front Onehunga and New Plymouth yesterday.-,

; It is Understood'that theie is likelihood of-the Rev. F. D. Campbell, of Newtown, being transferred to the West Coast of the South-Island.

rnany friends of Mrs.'P. N'. Keeling, of''Palmerstoii North, will regret to hear of the-death of her' only brother, Trooper Alfred' Jos&pli Lipmau M'Leary,'and'youngest-son-of the late J/ P. M'Leary, of .Welling't'oii, who was killed' ,: iri action -in' France on Christinas Day.

Mr. Cross, the father of Mr. A. Cross,' bf M'orrinsvilla, is -within five months of reaching the ceiitury, ajid lias the distinction of being the oldest Crimean veteran alive, having served through that great campaign ■ as a trooper in the renowned . Scots Greys. 'He won the V.C. during the" War, and has for over 60, years drawn the pension of. £10 attached to it. Ho is in full possession of all his mental f&culties, and takes a keen interest in the present great war.

Mr. 11. H.'Thompson, .late'.of Featherston Military Camp, is now in town and staying at tho Y.M.C.A. Hostel in Boulcott Street. '