PERSONAL ITEMS
Sir Joseph Ward, who went to Christchurch on Friday night, is expected back in Wellington to-morrow.
Sir William Fraser, Minister of Public Works, left for tho North Auckland district on Saturday. He has arranged to meet a citizens' deputation in Christchurch on March 26 with reference to the agitation in Canterbury for the completion of tho Otira tunnel.
The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, left for Auckland on Saturday, and will probabiy not return to Wellington before the middle of next week.
Mr. H-. W. Bishop, S.M., of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington by the ferry steamer yesterday.
Mr. George O'Malley, J.P., a Canterbury farmer, who died last week, came to New Zealand in 1862 and worked first on the Marlborough and West Coast gold diggings. Later he commenced businoss as a carter between Canterbury and the West Coast goldiields, and at the time of the rush to Kumara he conveyed 53 diggers across tho ranges in a five-horse wagon. Kumara did not contain gold for everybody, aud a littla later ho took forty of the men back again.
Private D. Bullock, a Christchurch man who has returned from the front, was wounded at tho Battle of Messinos, being struck on the head and buried by a shell tho first night he was in the front trenches. The wound in tho head healed, but the shock affected his speech to the extent of depriving him for some months of tho power to articulate at all. He got sufficiently well on the journey back to New Zealand to ho able to make himself just audible, and, with difficulty, understood. Visiting some lelalives in Gore, Private Bullock was one of a party which was thrown out of a trap through an accident, which was a blessing in disguise, for it gavo him ba-ck Ins speech.
News has been received in Masterton that Private S. L. King, who has been wounded twice, is returning to New Zealand. Prior to enlisting, Private King resided in Petone.
Sergeant A. M'Kain, of Masterton, has been invalided home, and will return to New Zealand shortly. Sergeant M'Kain left with the Main Body, and participated in tho operations at Galiipoli and in Franco.
A well-known Dunedin resident, in Mr. Thomas Henry Haskell, who died on Wednesday nt the age of 99 years, was bora in London, nnd was the father of Mr. Oscar Haskell, one of Otago's early representative crioketors. Tho old fentleman was in tho service of tho an Dieman's Land Government at the time when it obtained its constitution. All the public servants had to retire, but thero was a condition of the perial Government that they had all to' be provided for by a pension or otherwise. _ Mr. Haskell elected to retire, took his pension, and it had continued from 1855 until his death. He might hold the record in Australasia as a pensioner. The Rev. Oanon Gould, of Onehunga, has just celebrated tho 91st anniversary of his birth. Canon Gould went to Auckland in the days of Bishop G. A. Selwyn. On one occasion, with a white comrade and two Maori guides, he walked to Tauranga, Itotorua, and back, boing a mouth on tho tour. '' Mr. Henry Bussey, stationmaster at Ellerslie for the past seven years, has retired on superannuation. He had been in the railway service for 39 years. At a public meeting of residents of Ellerslie an illuminated address was given to Mr. Bussey by Mr. Somerfield, chairman of tho Town Board, and a. smoker's companion by Mr. Frank Lawry on behalf of the residents. Another old Auckland resident, Mr. Henry Nelson Garland, .secretary and treasurer to the Auckland Hospital aJid Charitable Aid Board, died on Friday last. Tho late Mr. Garland had been on twelve .months' leave of absence from his duties. Mr. Garland had suffered from heart trouble for some time, so that his death was not a surprise, to his many friends. He was the second son of the late Rev. J. N. Garland, formerly incumbent of St. John's, Jamaica, and was born in London in 1841 and landed in Nelson in 1857, where for a time he was engaged in sheep farming. He went to Auckland when the Thames goldfields broke oTit in 1867. _________
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