PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen will return from Auckland by the express to-day. l : V ' I ' , . r! i zcr . I S.M., will probably ton ( duties in Welling \ O VH pesday." Before returning.t<. Auckland he will he engaged foi-som.. Pnn- o b ". sim 'f ■■ connected with- uio Public Service Appeal Board. Mr. James Wallace, manager of the Premier Drapery Co.,' Ltd., Palmerslon i>orth ( has just.received-advice from his only, son Norman that ho has been gazetted adjutant arid acting-captain of a , ™Js? ve . battalion of machine-gun corns ftt;Clipstone Camp,' Nottingham, .Thisland,; Adjutant Wallaeirleft New Zealand m January, 1913, when he'wi>« just over 18 years of age; joinimr the lmiJtT^'/J 1 ' 0 "tfacW'd- to the Black Wo.telv (Ml.) as second lieutenant ■in-April;'Wls.y Two months afterwards lie- was rvcioted across tc Fnr>'.'o to join . the battalion'at'the front, He was inviihded to England with shell-shock after the Somme offensive in September. 1916, and has.been for the'past year assistantadjutant of tlie 3rd Reserve Battalion, .M.G.C., at Cliustone. Adjutant Wallace is . still unfit for general'service' at tho front, ••■ '■'■■'- ■■•■ •■■ ■ ' ' _M. Cliayct is beimr' succeeded by if. Cainpana as .Consul-General for: France :. in Australasia. ' M. has been . attachcd to the French* Ambassador's slaft" in London/ , ' ' The death of No.'.' 60,152. Private J. Jr. Ashworth, of the Forty-fourth Mounted ,«ifles, at the Featherston Military Camp ■Hospital, yesterday, , , is .nnnouni-ed in camp orders.; The cause of death -km cerebrospinal, meningitis. Private Ashworth's father resides at Vinegar Hill, Hunteryille, ■' ■ Advice has been received, that Lieutenant Allan Evans, formerly.manrieer of the Dannevirke branch-of die X.7-. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., has h«.en recuperating in Cairo. He suffered from flight internal trouble, aggravated by Uie heat in the Jordan Valley. He had, however, fully recovered and exnecii-rf any day to go back' to the front line in Palestine. . , Mr. ,T. Beswick, postmaster at Lytlel•ton, who has.' , been transferred to Tiiu-. ranga. wa.= on Monday presented by the. Lytteltoh Post Office staff with a set of afternoon tea forks and spoons. 'J'lic; senior clerk,-: Mr. J. Y ; Cameron, in making tho presentation, congratulated Mr. Beswick on his promotion. Mr. Dmi"an "M'LiicMin, C.E.. of Masterton, is dead,' aged 6fl. At the age of ten he came'to Wellington- with ' his parents' froni Inverness.. Scotland. J'lii , thirty-five years he had bp"n associated with various county councils and road boards in Wnirarapa as engineer and surveyor. For fifteen years he had been engineer to the Masterton County Council, but during the past two" years-he had practised .his p"nfe«sion of engineering .privately. ,-He leaves a widow and two dnnjfiiters (Mrs. J. G.'Wingato and Mrs. TT. 1?-'. Biss, wife of Lieutenant. Biss. of Wellington, who is oil service). "' '. ■ ' . ■;'"'. Mr. P.' W. Goldsmith; county clerk, ' of Levin, has received-word of the death' of his father, Mr. Philip Goldsmith; at his residence, Snnnyside, Pulham Max-. ket, Norfolk. ■ On attaining his ninetieth birthday, the late Mr. Goldsmith received a telegram of consrntulalion from the King. - He was within a fenweeks of ninety-five years of age at his death,, which closed n long career of exceptional activity and usefulness. .Lieutenant Grierson, of Wellington, will return from England to-day. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Dane, of kilbirnio Crescent, have received word of the death of their fourth . son, Sergeant Stanley Daue. Previously reported missing, information lias now been received from ..the Court of. Inquiry; held, that he was killed in the fighting for Passchendaeio liidgc. Mr. and Mrs. Daue have fours eons at the front. ' Tho .induction took piace on Thursday evening, of the Key. W. Day, who has arrived from Whangarei to assume pastoral charge of the Kelburn Presbyterian Church. The , ceremony was performed by tho Eov, S. Robertson Orr, Moderator of the Wellington Presbytery. The Piev. J. dimming, of K.hnndnllnh, addressed tho- minister and the people. Mr. Day will-commence his ministry tomorrow. ..-.'. ■. ;• " Mr.Ormdndi.C.-.Cooper/'.'who wasserfr ously. injuredr.aS-a. rssult of;;a.n',.accident 'in MdleSwm'th'S i treet,cii..Wednefday, w'ae : ieJKirted - last his medical attendant. Dr. Pallid, to- be, progressing as favourably as could be expected. Mr. M. D. Loftu3; who was recently mado the recipient of a presentation frolu the committee and members of tho Wellington'. Returned Soldiers' Association, went through the early fighting at Gallipoli nnd'was returned to New- Zealand in 1916. He was one of the original band of workers who inaugurated tho Wellington Returned Soldiers' .Association. He has now been .appoint*! .country traveller for his firm in Palmerston North district.