PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 252, 12 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

M. Chayet, late Consul-Goneral for France in Australasia, who is to be accorded a. civic welcome at the Town Hall this morning, has, after six ami a. halt years' residence in Sydney, been transferred to Guatemala, in Central America. M. Chayet says that it was; with regret that he left. Sydney, where ho mado a host of (.harming friends,' but for somo timo past the work there had been getting rather arduous for him in his none, too-robust health. He says that the importance of the central _ countries of America—Guatemala, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Costa. Rica, and Honduras-h.is been increased b.v the opening of the Panama Canal, now the great highway for the shipping betwoen Pacific ami Atlantic ports. Guatemala, in addition to being the capital city of tho republic of the fame name, was tho centre where much of tho diplomatic affairs of all iivo Stales was conducted, and was the seat of a French Minister.. M. Chayet leaves for San Francisco via Tahiti by tho Moana this evening.

Tho condition of Mr. Ormond C. Cooper, of Masterton, who was seriously injured about the chest and back, as a result of an accident in Molesworth Street on Wednesday night, was reported last night to have slightly improved. Mr. Cooper is n patient at the Thorndon Private Hospitnl.

Mr. A. F/xl?y. who has been in the doctor's hands for solne time past, underwent an operation yesterday. The operation was successful.

A private letter received in Wellington by Hie last mail from England announces the death of Mr. James Harold, who for more than 25 years was London secretary to the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, Ltd. Mr. Harold liad retired from active' business soino yeara ago, and was living quietly at Boscombe, Hants.

Engineer Lieutenant-Commander William Earnshaw, R.N., has been transferred from one of the Dreadnoughts and appointed to Glasgow, on the staff of the Admiral Superintendent, while a new destroyer he is to be in charge of is being built. Ho was strongly urged by the authorities to accept chargo of Fisgard, the establishment for the training of engineer artificers, but preferred to take part in the more active work of warfare. He had previously beon offered the position of senior instructor of engineering at Portsmouth. ' Ho hopes to proceed to sea again before tho end of the. year. Lieutenant, Earnshaw is a sen of the Hon. William Earnshaw, M.L.C., of Wellington.

Mr. P. Myers, of Wellington, loft for Sydney by tho Biverina last nifjht.

Mr. Ronald Isaacs, of Wellington, who wns severely injured by a gunpowder explosion on'his father's farm near Rae. tihi in tho big bush, fire, is still in "Wellington, mid it will 'bo some months before he is ablo to resume active work. Tho flesh was burnt off his hands in tlin explosion, and even now there is only a coating of skin over tho bones.

Mr. n. V. Uren, who has boon attached to the head office of tho Publio Trust OHice, Wellington, has been trans, ferred as chief clerk lo the Nelson district branch of the office.

Mr. J. Meek, of the Vacuum Oil Co., loft for Sydney by tho Uivcriim. Lieutenant (temporary 'Captain) If. J). Elliott, New Zealand Dental Corps, has been granted the temporary rank of major while acting as principal dental officer, Trentham Cauip.

The Rev. E. Palgravo Davy, superintendent of tho New Zealand Children's Mission, has left for Auckland, but contemplates an early return to Wellington. Jlr. IT. Were, manager - at the Waitara branch of the Bank of New Zealand, left for Sydney by the Biverina.