PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen, Acling-l'rimo Minister, will arrive iioin Auckland by tho express to-day. Tho Hon. A. M. Myers returned from Auckland yesterday. The death occurred at Hastings on Thursday last of Mr. Daniel M'DuffBoyd, aged GO years. Mr. M'Duff-Boyd was for many years ono of tho bestknown musicians of Wellington. For tho past eighteen years ho had been a resident of Hastings. For some time past he had been in failing health, lie leaves a widow and grown-up family. Ono son, Mr, Newton M'Duff-Boyd. is a dairy inspector, residing at Pahiatua. Two suns, Jock and Waller, are on active service, and another son, Stewart, who was an officer'in tho Naval. Reserve, was drowned as a result of his ship, the P. and 0. liner Persia, being torpedoed ill tho Mediterranean. Mrt. M'V'ay, of Mangataiiioka, is a daughter. The funeral look place at Hastings on Friday.

The respect in which the lalo Mr. Enoch Tonks was hold was evidenced by the large number which attended his funeral on Sunday afternoon. A service was conducted in Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, by the Rev. .T. G. Chap- ! man aud the Rev. ,T, H. White. There j was a large attendance, and tho ceremony was of a most impressive nature. Mr. Tonks had been associated from boyhood with, tho Methodist Church in Wellington, and was for many years one of its local preachers. Tho interment took plaeo in tho Sydney Street Cemetery, where tho Row G. Knowlcs Smith officiated. The chief mourners were Messrs. William, Edward, Henry, and Horace Tonks (sons), Messrs. V. Pntivol, F. Chisholiu, J. W. Carr, and G. Edwards (sons-in-law), and a number of grandsons. Tho remaining sou, Mr. Francis Tonks, of New Plymouth, was unable .to bo present. Tho pall-bearers were the four sons in "Wellington, and two grandsons (Roland and Stanley Tonks). The. Salvation Army Band (of which Mr. Tonks was an original member), and the Central Mirnb.'j Band (of which ho was. vico-prcsidont), attended as a mark of respect. Tho Wellington Brickmakers' Association was represented, and all the "old hands," as well as the present employees of Mr. Tonks's firm, formed part of tho cortege. The Mayor (Mr. J. l\ Luke, C.M.G.) and many prominent citiens attended, and paid their last tribute of respect to his memory.

Mr. R. J. Kells, of Kilhimie, has received cabled advico that his eldest sou, Private Herbert Henry Kells, has died of wounds. The lato Private Kells was wounded on January 28, and had just got back into tho firing-line when lie received the wounds from which ho subsequently died. He was a nativo.of Carterton, and finished his school career at tho Berhampore School, lie was by occupation a painter, and was a prominent footballer, being captain of St. James's Football Club, and had been at the front since June, 1917.

Private Francis C. Cassidy, of Paparanga, Johnsonvillo (killed in action on May 7, in Prance) was 29 years of age, and left here with the Twenty-sixth Reinforcements (Infantry). Ho was the only son of Mr. Frank Cassidy. of Paparanga. Ho was educated in Nelson.

. Lieutenant J. P. Farro'tl, reported severely wounded, is (he son of Mr. J. Parrel!, Matamat.i, and left New Zealand with Hie Twenty-second Reinforcements.-

Mr. W. 11. Buckman, of llavcloek (uncle, of Miss liosina Buckman, the well-known singer), died last week, aged 51. For many years he took a keen interest in local politics and affairs and in sparling and atliMie bodies. Ho was a Past Master of the local Masonic Lodge, and a former member of (ho vestry of St. Peter's Anglican Church. His eldest son, Gunner Stuart Buckman, was invalided homo about three months ago, having been eoyeraly wounded,

Mr. and Mis. Bognuda. of Daniel Street, havo been advised tliat .their 6on, Private Leslio Bognuda, who left with the Nineteenth Reinforcements, and was wounded on December 3, losing his right, eye, ia on his way back to New Zealand.