PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 229, 15 June 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

News- lit« been; received that Lieut,Colonel C T. Maclean, 1i.1'.C., lias been awarded (lie Legion of Honour of France. (J tijlrtiii J , . .\\\ ijkeilpy, whose death from wounds received in action is reported in to-day's casualty list, was well known in Wellington. Jle was for years an enthusiastic member of D battery, in which he latterly held n commission. When the Territorial echeiue was inaugurated he left the income Tax Depart-: meiit and joined the New Zealand Staff Girps, and Kubsecjuently became an area ofUccr. At the outbreak of war ho was attichod to Headquarters Staff for duly, and prior to bis departure for the front wtw assistant adjutant-general.

Private advice has been received stating, 'that I'rivatc K. I'otts, who was wounded some little time igo, has had to have one of his legs amputated. Hefore leaving for the front Private Potts was a member of the printing staff of Tub Dominion - . He was married during tho period he w\s limbtynint! -ii-aiiiing. Mr. Thomas Hush, of Wellington, at present residing for the winter in Nelfion, lias been advised by his son (Mi\ Ernest Firie Hush) that he has joined the lioyal Canadian laying . Corps at Toronto. Mr. Ernest Bush, who is an ex-student of (he Wellington College, developed an early passion for the stage, and forsook the pharmacy trade to try his luck in Sydney. He worked there for a time, and then got his chance in "<<et-ttich-Quick ■Wallingford" with the Prnl Niblo Company, and made good. Jlr. Niblo made a protege of the youthful New Zealander, and when Mr. Aihlo returned to America Mr. Bush iclt with him. In the States lliv Niblo's inflii,ence made the New Zealander-.• path straieht, and he has been steadily progressing in his nrofession dm in? the nas three years. It was half expected that Jlr. Bush' would return to Australia shortly with Mr. Niblo. The' friends of Mr. W. M'Dowell, who was a well-known business man in Pal- \ merston in the early days, and who lias of late years been a member of the firm of Al'Dowtll-and Power. -Dannevirke, will regret to hrtir that he is seribuslv ill. Mr. M'Dowril » condition is causing his family-and friends grave anxiety. , Jlr. and Mrs. H. Miller, of Nelson, received news that their youngest fon, Charles, has been lost at sea through bis steamship being torpedoed. the steamship was a large merchantman, and Mr. Miller was chief .engineer. U is stated t'lial. all hands perished wnn the ("Mention of four coloured stokers. The lalo Mr, Miller was a yonne W. of 30 rears of age. He. served his apprcnliccfbip at (he Anchor Foundry.and was very popular among his workman*. Re «erve<r for about a couple, ot years in -the. Anchor- Company's, steamer .service and th.T loft fnv Lonrton, where lio rained rapid promotion, ultima iclypas*iw the examination of chief mm Hp ha« lefl a widow and twn children. Mr f. Rowley. Secretary of Labour, is visiting the South Island. ' Mr. K. B. Oborn, Asiiburton, .has teen advised that his son, Private Stanley. O=bor.ii, wireless section,. Ansae Corps, has been appointed an official sketeher to the Australian Forces. Mr \ W. Aherns, who has occupied the position of acting-county clerk to the Masterton County Council for several mouths, past, tendered his resignation un Thursday. ... ;..

Advice has been received that Mr. TL Routh, assistant.'-manager of Te Arc House Drapery Company, who' lett Willi the Twenty<cuitli Heiniorcemcnts, liaa been admitted to hospital in France, suffering from rheumatic fever.

The following appointments are announced by the Wellington Education Board -.-Martiiiborough, assistant, Jim. ,T.B. Melton; Featherstoii; assistant (temporary appointment), Miss M. Kennedy; Te Aro, assistant (temporary appointment), Miss 11. O'Shea; Carterton, assistant, ■ Miss H. M. Skelloy; Hub D.H.S., assistant (temporary apponunientj, Miss A. Eggleton; Hiitt U.S.K., assistant, Miss 0. A. Smith; Entt DKS., assistant, Mrs. LA, Goodwin; Kaetern llntt, assistant, Miss C. J. Donkin ; Lansdowne, assistant, Mips M. :H. Seller; South Wellington, assistant. Miss C. V. Thompson; Tokomaru, assistant, Miss H. N. Uooder; Bongokokako, assistant, (temporary appointment), Mies N. Cnjueron; Pougaroa, .assistant (tenippr-. ary appointment), Miss A: Winge; Seaview, sole toacher (temporary appmwment), Miss G. J. Jlonkhouse.

Mr. William Slichbury, who died' at Takapuna, Auckland, this week, wad a partner for many years in tho firm of Parker, Green and Co., Ltd., but latterly was associated with his eon, Mi-. A. A. Stichbury, of this city. The late Mr. Stichbury fought through the Maori war, and was at' the' scigo of Orakau. His father, the'late Mr. Charles Stichbury, arrived at Wellington on January 1, 1840, in tho ship Cuba, having joined the survey party to survey the township of Wellington. Tho late 'Mr. William Stichbury was respected by all who knew him,- and will be greatly missed by his very many friends. Of Mr. Stichbury's five sons who volunteered for etrvice, three nrp still at tho Jront.

Mr. E. W. Pnterson, of 'Eoibnrgii' Street, lias received advice from Home from his son, stating that ho was quite well after Ins last grim experience in

the English Channel. Mr. Edward Paterson was fifth engineer on a New Zealand steamer, when she was torpedoed in the Channel after touching at Plymouth. Tho only two passengers on the steamer going: to England were- Mrs. Milsom (daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr.) W. E. Collins, of Wellington), and Mr. Joseph Joseph, also of this city. They both landed at Plymouth, and consequently escaped the experience of being torpedoed within sight of the southern cliff of Old England. .