PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 166, 3 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime : Minister has at last received cabled advice, in reply to his telegrams of inquiry regarding tho condition of his son, Major F. G. Massey, attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers. Major Massey was teported to have suffered a severe gunshot wound in the chest in the recent heavy fighting. The advice is that the bullet has not yet been extracted, but that there is no need at present for grave alarm. Mr. Massey haß received a message of sympathy from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Hon. W. H. Long. Advice has been received that Sergeant J. W. Clayson, formerly of Eketahuna, has been awarded the Military Medal. Rev. S. Beckingliam, the recentlyappointed minister of tho Vivian Street Baptist Church, has arrived from Australia. He will commence his ministry dii Sunday next. News was received in Wellington yes* terday of the death at Blenheim on Monday night of the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas Samuel Grace. The late Archdeacon Grace was the second son of tho Rev. T. S. Grace, and was born at sea during the voyage of his parents to. New Zealand in 1850. He was partly educated at tho Church of England Grammar School, Auckland. In 1869 ho entered tho Nelson Theological Col' lege, and afterwards went to England, where he was ordained by tho Archbishop of Canterbury in 1873. During tho following year ho returned to New Zealand, and became a chaplain and tutor in the Bishopdale Theological College in Nelson. In 1881 lie passed oil to the Maori Mission under tho Church Missionary Society, and was stationed at Putiki, until 188G, when he was appointed vicar of Blenheim, succeeding to the Archdeaconry of Marlborough upon the death of Archdeacon Butt. Archdeacon Grace was married to a granddaughter of General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, and has loft five sons and five daughters. Mr. L. M. Grace, of tho Native Department, Wellington, is a brother of Archdeacon Grace.

News has just been received that Sergeant Maurice Scott, son of Mrs. M. Scott, 20 Austin Street, and grandson of Mr. Judah Myers, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery 011 the field. Sergeant Scott enlisted in the Main Body of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, and was at the landing at Gallipoli. Ho was wounded while on tho Peninsula, and has since been serving in France. HVlrTjames Ames, City Valuer, and Mrs. Ames have loft on a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mr. C. G. Ingall, formerly of the Mines Department, who left New Zealand with the Main Body and saw sorvico 011 Gallipoli, lias now attained tho rank of captain in the Imperial Army, and has been given charge of a ''tank. Mr. C. B. Mann, Controller Post and Telegraph Stores, 011 behalf of the staff, presented 011 Thursday last a wristlet watch, suitably inscribed, to Mr. Gerald A. Maskey, a member of his staff, who is going into camp to-day. The Rev. Eric Evans, of the Petone Baptist Church, has resigned from his charge in order to take upan appointment as chaplain in tho New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Evans expects to go into camp, if passed bv the doctor, in about a fortnight, and to leave New Zealand for the front very shortly. The death is announced of Mr. Rob. erfc Gibson, a well-known farmer ol North Taieri. The late Mr. Gibson was 82 years of age. From Dnnedin is announced the death of Mr. John C. Short, of Leith Street, formerly a well-known publican and a director of several dredging companies." He was a keen bowler and visited Australia in 1906 with the "All White team.