PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 168, 5 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, will return to Wellington from the South Island this morning. The Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Minister of Munitions and Supplies, returned to Wellington by the Main Trunk express yesterday. Private cabled advice was received yesterday to the. effect that Second Lieutenant H. H. D. Bothamley, of Wellington, was lying dangerously ill in the Prince of Wales Hospital, London. The City Engineer (Mr. W. 11. Morton) lias returned from a holiday spent in the Auckland district and atKawau Island. The death occurred- in. Invercargill ou ■ Monday morning of Mr. Colin M'Donald, who for many years had been conneoted with the business life of the community, for the greater part of the time as a land and commission ' agent. He was born in Nelson in 1867. The late Mr, M'Donald tvas a member of the Invercargill Town Council for a term. Ho leaves a widow and five of a family, the eldest son, 21 years of age, being in Brookenhurst Hospital suffering from wounds received in France. '

Mr. .Bryan Flynn, / who died >in Christchurch on Sunday, was for many years licensee of the Ashley Hotel, and was well known in North Canterbury. For some time he was farming at Waimate, and until retiring into private life held the license of a hotel in Cliristchurch. The late Mr. Flynn arrived in Lyttelton in 1863, in the ship Chariot of Fame, and was responsible for the reunion of his shipmates held in 1913. He married Miss S. Lynskey, sister of the late Mr. Michael Lynskey. of Kaiapoi, and leaves a widow. ana family.

Mr. George Acheson Newell, who died in Christchurch suddenly on Tuesday from heart failure, was one of Canterbury's early settlers. He came to New Zealand in the Mersey at the er.d of 1862, from the North 'of Ireland, where he was born 77 years ago. He had been in Canterbury for £J0 years,, and leaves a grown-up'family, including Dr. J. A. Newell, of Lyttelton, and Mr. C. J. Newell,..of Christchurch. His wife predeceased him.

Information has been received in Dunedin that Lieutenant Wilfred J. Sim, son of Mr. Justice Sim, has qv.ito recovered from his -wound, and has been awarded the Military Cross. He is now at the front inland from Salonika with his reeiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

Mr. Alan Anderson, of Kent Terrace, has been advised that his son, Private J. B. Anderson, was admitted to a hospital in France between March 22 and 24, gassed. Mr. Harry G. Mayer has been returned unopposed to fill the vacancy on the Eastbourne Borough Council.

Mr. Alexander Morris, an inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, who died in Dunedin on-Monday, was educated at the Ota<io Boys' High School, ?nd began his business career in the service of the Colonial Bank, soon after tho establishment of that institution. At the time of the amalgamation of the Colonial Bank with the Bank of Now Zealand he was manager at j,awrence. Ho was afterwards promoted to Invercargill, and was next appointed to tho inspectors' staff, first as visiting inspector, and then as resident inspector, with headquarters at Wellington, which position he held up to the timeof his.death. He marn?d a daughter of the lato Mr. B. C. Haggitt, and there are three children. The late Mr. Morris was in his 60th year. In his youth he was a keen footballer and was a member of the Dunedm Club. Mrs. F. Barnes, of Cridlarid Street, Kaiapoi, lias received advice from the Minister of Defence that llegimental-Scrgeant-Major T. S. AVest has been awarded tho Croix de Guerre for gallantry on tho field of action. SergeantMajor West left Now Zealand with the Main Body, and took part in the landing and evacuation at Galhpoh, vhere he was wounded. Ho went through the battles of the Somme and Messmes without mishap, and is ■ at .present studying for a commission at 'keble College, Oxford. Advice lias been received of the (loath at the front of Driver Charles H. Cooper, of the N.Z.F.A., son of Mr. W. Cooper, of Gisborne. Driver Cooper, who left with tho Sixth I!*inforcements, was prior to enlisting engaged in farming in Poverty Bay.