PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 69, 16 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain K C Smith has relinquished bis appointment as officer in charge and adjutant at Papnmi Military Camp, and has been appointed officer in charge of details, Featherston Military Camp. His Honour the Chief Justice on Saturday morning admitted as solicitors of tho Supreme" Court Mr Moore and Mr. Archibald Cecil Dick, both law clerks, of Wellington. The Rev. J. Lowden, late of Reefton, who contracted influenza on his arrival in Auckland too weeks ago, has quite recovered, and has been publicly welcomed to the charge of St. Enoch's rresbytman Church at Morningside. Mr F. Harrison, president of the 111itish Club at Honolulu, is at Auckland. He intends to visit Rotorua and J , her parts of New Zealand, Mr, Harrison was one of the particular, hosts of the New Zealand Press delegates when the) were at Honolulu. Bv the last mail from America, the Rev Father Cahill, of Waipawn, received news of the death of his nephew at the Battle of the V«l ? Hirer, near Reims, on August 24. lieutenant W. F. Cahill was a member of .the law firm nf Brvne and MWcheon, of New York. He w. a graduate of Fordham University and: of the Harvard Law School. Ho was 25 years old. Mr T* W. Raymond,-formerly of Invercn'rg HI, hairman of the New Zeeand War Contingent Association in London camlidate for.Carlisle in he pre--3 election in the interests of the Naffnnal PartT. Mr.' Baymond. contested be seat in 1910 in the Unionist interest, w en "e reduced the. adverse vote of Wfl to 61. He is chairman of the cental Committee of the National Party m London. . , . When the last mail'which arrived in New Zealand left England Captain J. P Monaghan, oldest son of Mr. W. 1-Mona-han of Karori, was a prisoner of w\rat Limburg. After completing his education at Wellington College. Captain Monaghan went tc,^mdo«i and +nnk his degree in medicine, at trtiy» Hospi "l. l&was on tho staff of a Cape Town hospital when the present war broke out" and he served through the canipaign under General Botha. After he Completion of the -African campaign ho left with an overseas force, nnd saw service in Egypt and France. ■ Mr D. B. P« rton - tele S ra P l l e W e tl atMasterton, has been tranrfetred Jto Christohurch, and he is to lea%e for tne south this week. <V presentation was made on.Fndaj by the members. of the Canterbury Und - writers' Association to Mr. G. J. A- ivei •uish, who has been manager, of the Queensland Insurance Company in Christ, clnircb for some, years, ana 5 who has been appointed manager of the Australian branch of the company. 'Ihe death occurred at his residence in Arthur Street last week of Mr Bcnjamn [Williams, engineer 'Ihe deceased »as born at Gravcsend, England, 01 yeais ago, and went to sea J* * e "9 1 .. wd ' lie shippod on a vessel bound for Weifiton? where-hie elder-brother the ate f,K W. R. Williams, had established hims If, and ho left her. at his port Captain Williams apprenticed ttai to Messrs. B. W. .Mills and Co., of the Lion- Foundry, which then stood on the site of Messrs, Levin and Co.o pieRPiit warehouse on Customhouse Uuay. Later he worked 'for the late Mr. Edward Seager, who then had a foundry. Off Wilis 'Street.- Subsequently he joined Messrs. Samuel Luke and Soils, in partnership, in an engineering baaine* on Te AroFlat. For two or three, yeau after he dissolved partnership with the. Messrs. Luke he., worked for the Aim, and then went into the employ .of Ins brother, who had estab .shed marine engineering works on the TefArd reclaimed land. For some years before his death Mr. Williams had carried on an engineering business in Wellington. Deceased ost his wife four years ago, and since then had been ailing, but he was only seriously ill for four days before he died. Ho has left two sons-Mr. Alfred Williams of the Railway Workshop at Thorndon, and Mr. Percival Williams, marine engineer, who recently resigned from the Union Company's service,, ana one daughter, tho wife of Mr. K Vear. of the Goneral Post Office. Sir. Williams was an old member of the Loyal fliitannia Lodge of Oddfellows. His body was interred at Karori on Saturday., attornoon, the Rev. Jolin Dawson conducting the service. '