PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 289, 26 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. P. Luke, M.V., returned to Wellington yesterday from Chris tehureh ■ after attending the piercing of tho Olira. Tunnel. Word has boon received at Hasiiii'jjs from tho Hen. A. L. D. Fraeer, sixting that on. tho advice of his physician hu was entering a private hospital in D.ulinghurst, Sydney. The nature of Mr. j Fiaser's illness, it is said, is not in any ivay serious. Mr. Gordon Gilmour, the war correspondent of the Australian Press Association on the Western front, whose interesting cable messages are road with such interest, was some six years ago a member of Tun Dominion , literary staff. Ho left Wellington for Sydney find joined the staff of the "Sun," and later still worked for the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." Mr. and Mrs. James Best, of To Horo, havo been advised that their son, Private Harold Best, has been wounded for tho second time. He was shot in tho thigh. The death of Mr. John Albert Heaton, which took placo at his residence, Palmerston North, last week, removes one of the oldest settlors of thp Manawatu district. The late Mr. Heaton, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 73 years ago, arrived in New Zealand in 1852, and settled in For many years he carried on farming, and later was in business at Bulls as a general storekeeper, ' Afterwards ho removed to Palmerston, and resided there for tho past 3D years. Sir. Heaton took a keen interest in public affairs. Ho is survived by a widow and one son and three daughters—Mr. P. Honton, Mrs. C. H. Withers, and Misses Ji\ and M. Heaton—all of whom resido in Pnlmprston. Lieutenant William T. H. Graco (severely wounded and transferred to hospital in England) is a son of Mr. L. M. Grace, of tho Native .Department, Wellington. This is tho cciiond timo that Lieutenant Graco has \ieen wound- : ed since tho beginning of the German offensive on March 21. His first wound was in the head, and was received during tho German advance in tho Sonuua Valley. He has now been wounded in the legs. Lieutenant TV. Grace's younger brother, Richard (Tukino) has also been wounded in tho head, but not seriously. He was a medical student, at .Edinburgh when war broke out, and enlisted in tho Royal Scots, and has J reen heavy fighting in France., includ- ' ing the German offensives in.; the Somme and Lys Valleys. He is an alummis of Nelson College. Lieutenant Haini Grace, another brother, ivas killed on the G.illipoli Peninsula, at Ihe storming of Sari T3air. He was a representative football player in his time, and- an ex-Wellington College bov.

Mr. John Bronton, SI.A'., who has had teaching service of 20 years, headmaster of tlio Snuthbrnnk _ School, Cliristchurch, has been appointed to the" position of reotor of t-lm Hokilika District High School. "Sir. Brunton is a graduate of tlio Otago University, and served his apprenticeship in the Kensington School. , lid obtained a Normal Training: College bursary, and on the completion of his university course, taucrht for some years under the Ofcsijo Education Board., He subsequently entered the-,service of the Canterbury Education Board.

Mr. J. A. Macdoiiald, business manager for Malini, the magician, was in Wellington during the week-end, on his way to Blenheim.