PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 65, 11 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

i Press Association cablegram from London states that Lieutenant-Colonel D. P. White, of the Australian Mounted Forces, and Lieutenant-Colonel E- T. Leane, Ordnance Corps, have been promoted to be colonels. Majors D. Bmbleton, H. Woollard, C. Mattei. E. W. Fairfax, E. Culpin, Army Medical Corps, and Professor David, have been promoted to be lieutenant-colonels.

Bishop Wallis, formerly of Wellington, who since 1911 has been working in Salisbury Diocese, finds it necessary on grounds' of health to resign the Archdeaconry of Sherborne at the end of the year. Sherborne. which is the fourth Archdeaconry in Salisbury Diocese, was formed two years ago when Dr. Wallis was appointed. The Bishop of Salisbury expresses his own iegret and that of the clergy and laitv at Bishop Wallis s retirement in his "Diocesan Magazine-

■V Press Association cable message from Porth announces the death of tho Hon Frank Wilson, C.M.G., who was Premier of Western Australia from September, 1910, to October, 1911. He was 59 years of age. The Bev. S. Robertson Orr, of St. Andrew's Church, the Terrace has gone south for a month's holiday. During his absence the Eevs. Frazer, Barton, and C. Porter will iako up his duties in the Terrace church. ■• A Press Association message from Melbourne states that Senator Pearce has booked passage for England early, in January. The officials are reticent concerning the nature of his appointment, lint it is reported that it is connected with demobilisation. ' Messrs. J. Keith, Hugh Wright, and F. Townsend have returned from a holiday spent in Australia. Mr. W. C. Cooper, president of the Wellington Bowling Centre, is at present lying seriously ill in the Sydney Streot Hospital. At the meeting of the centre last evening a vote of sympathy was passed, and ; hope was expressed that hie recovery would bo a speedy one. Si"nor Tino Cappelli, the distinguished Italian tenor, who has been held up in Wellington by tho disarrangement of tho intercolonial steamer services consequent upon the epidemic, has been engaged to sing on the Killer circuit, for n couple of months. Ho will mnko his first appearance on the vaudeville stngo in New Zealand at Auckland on December I\,

\t tho Methodist Synod «t Wellington yesterday morning feeling reference was made to the loss tho Church had sustained through the death of the Rev. S. ■I. Serpell, for some years in charge of th'o Tnronaki Street Church, and also at Mnsterton, and .the following motion was carried in silence:—"This Synod expresses its sincere regret, at the passing iiway of the Rev. S. J. Serpell, a former minister'in this district, and for many years the district chairman. Wβ bear him "in affectionate memory as a brother beloved, a genial spirit, a wise administrator, and a faithful preacher of the Divine Evangel. We convoy to his daughter and son our heartfelt sympathy in tho loss of a. father so kind and good aud beloved,"

. Mr, S. L. P. Free, S.M., of Masterton, is visiting Wellington : for a few days, relieving Mr. ]?. V. I'razer, S.M., who is engaged in presiding at the sitting of the Public Service Appeal Board. The Hev. Thomas Gardner, vicar of Pongnroa, died on Monday night, aa the result of pneumonia following on influenza. When the epidemic reached Pongaroa, iMt. Gardner undertook to HBsist"witli the nursing nt the emergency hospital, but, unfortunately, contracted the malady, and pneumonia supervened on a relapse. The deceased was for some years curate at: St. Peter'aChurch, Wellington, and before proceeding to Pongnroa also acted for 6ome time ns Vicar of Eastbourne. Ho was the young-' ost son of the. lato John Gardner, of Levin, and leaves his mother and two sisters- at Levin, also a married sister in Wellin«ton (Mrs. Hawker), and four brothers, Messrs. C. and 0. Gardner (of Ngaio), J. Gardner (of Levin), ami K. Gardner (of Petone). The deceased was to have been married last month, but the wedding had been .postponed to a later date on account of the epidemic. Mr. Ernest Drake, the Auckland tenor, who has been in a nrecarious state of health in Wellington for the past mouth, is now convalescent. 11 n D. Carman, Lynll Bay, who lias been in the Civil Service for about fifteon years, chiefly with the Pnblie Works' Department, has been transferred to the Stratford office of the Public Works Department. Mr. and Mrs. Murdo MTlae are leaving for England by the Remuera this weok. The Kiirori Borough Council lust evening, on the initiative of the .Mayor (Mr. B. G. Burn).- passed « motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. H. Dryden and the lato Mr. J , .. V. Waters. Mr. S. Murray, of the Star Foundry, Ncwtown, has ■'been advised that his youngest son, Lance-Corporal Edward Murray, who was wounded on November 9, died of wounds on December i. He left with Lord' Liverpool's Own at the age of 175- years. He had been previously wounded, and had been in action consistently. His two brothers are on active service, and according to latest advices, both are well. Colonel C. E. B. Mackesy, of the Auckland Mounted Eitics, has been appointed military governor of the district, east of Jordan—Gileacl, Amman, and Es Salt— which was reconquered by a British forco, of which the New Zealand Mounted Rifles formed a part. A cablegram has been received in Auckland statinjj that Mr. Alfred H. Court, son of Mr. John Court, of Auckland, who has been on active service, is now in London and will be returning to Auckland shortly, states tho "Herald." Mr. Court, writing from Paris on August 9, says: "We were up at tho front at Fismes, and a gas shell struck my car. I was lucky enough to escape with just ibeing gassed. I have had a wonderful experience, being in French, American, and British hospitals. I was quite blind for over five days, and at present i m unable to speak above a whisper. I expect to rejoin my section in two or three days."