PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

' Sir .Tames Allen went to Falrisrston yesterday. Ho is returning to Wellington by io-day's train. The lion. G. W. Russell iefl last nifilit, for- Chnstehurch. .".Tie. will:\be" present at the opening' of the Science Congress there on' Tuesday, and then he-will go to Dunedin. Mr. Justice Hosking left for the north yesterday by the Main Trunk express. Constable Cleverley was yesterday presented' with the Boyal Humane Society's, certificate for his heroic act some eighteen months ago in endeavouring to. save Cornelius Boyle from drowning, The presentation was made by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. J. O'Donovan, flt a parade of the local police at tho Central Police Station, Johnston Street.' Boyle, who was n fireman en the steamer Devon, felt into the harbour, and Constable Cleverley jumped into the wate? fully clothed and supported the man for twenty' minutes until further help came. Boyle' subsequently succumbed from shock. The death of Geueral .Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, formerly commandant of lord Stratheona's Horse in the Boer War,, is announced by-a Press Association message from London A Press- Association cable messagef rom London announces the death from pneumonia of Colonel Harry -Wrightson, M.P. Colonel.Wrightson was at one time engaged in farming in Now Zealand. Mr. Fred. Brooke,-nil-English solicitor since 1869, was yesterday admitted a so. licitor of the Supreme Court, of New Zealand by His Honour Mr.-.' Justice Ilosking, on the application of Mr. E. P. Hay. . The following former cadets at theRoyal Australian Military 'College.' have been appointed lieutenants in the New Zealand Staff CorpsG. H. Clifton, H. G. Dyer. It. C. C. Steele, L. E. Earle, N; W. Leech. The Rev. I-'. T. Ransom, principal' of (he ilikuraugi Maori Cullego at Claveville, is shortly to take up-the position of vicar at Bulls, and he will be succeeded at the college by the Rev. E. li. OMJ. Tobin, who is now on his way backto New Zealand from the front. Mr. F. Haybittle, senior • partner in (he firm' of-Messrs. George Thomas and Co., who went Home in May, 1911, and has done excellent work on the Continent. ever since hostilities began, has arranged to leave London by tho Corinthic on February 1, accompanied b.v Mrs. Haybittle, who has also\l)eeu in the Old Country for several years. Private Frank Couzens, son of Mr. Couzens,' of Adelaide Road, and nephew of Dr. Conzms, who left New" Zealand with tho Main Body, is expected to arrive in Wellington "within the course of the next few' days. Mr. G. A. Lee. C.E., late of the Dunedin and lihiff Harbour Boards, and at present engineer to tho Napier Ilarbou;', Board, has resigned that position in order to enter the service of Mr. J. Blair Mason, M.lnt., C.E. Mr. Lee wilt' l take up his residence at Neiv Plymouth",; where Mr. .Blair has harbour and hydraulic works in hand, involving an expenditure "of a very large sum. '■ Mr. Poser H. Moag-Lcvv, whose death was reported briefly recently, was for a fshort time an officer in the. servico of (lie Union Steam Ship Company, and Mer on in that of Messrs. B\trns. l'hilp and' Co., of Sydney. At the outbreak of lioslililies Mr.. Moag-Lev.y was chief nf-j ficer -. on a m'ailboat belonging to the China Steam Navigation Company, and he immediately relinquished'lns position and proceeded to Australia, where ho enlisted and quicqly rose (o the rank of lieutenant. He saw service in Egypt and Gallipoli, and was amongst the very last to leave at the famous evacuation. When America joined the Allies he again went to sea and was encaged in transport work 'until last February, when the boat he was on.was lost.with all, hands. The sad news only reached Mrs. Moag-Levy .about a. week ago, .and much sympathy will bo felt for her. '