PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 306, 22 September 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Advice has been received that Captain Sam Baivnou, D.F.S., soe. of Mr. and Mrs. R. Dawson, lienall Street, Masterton. has been killed, presumably in Russia (states our Mastertou correspondent). Captain Dawson, who was twenty-four years cif age, was rejected for service in New Zealand, but went to Australia, where ho joined the Navy as a wireless operator. Later ho was transferred to the liova! Naval Flying Corps, and, it was while serving in this branch of the service that he won distinction during a bombing expedition over Germany. Mr. A. L. Williams, for some time a war correspondent in Russia, was a passenger by the Taimii from' London yesterday. Mnior P. Oldham, Wellington Regiment. who was for some time officer in charm of the reinforcement camp in Prance at Stefnwerck and Dickiebusch, returned to Wellington by tlio Tainui from England yesterday. A<ivice has been receive that at the examinations of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain ami Ireland, which were recently resumed after suspension on account of the war, Mr. A. T. Traversi, of the Government' Insurance Department, was successful in obtaining the fellowship of that budy. This distinction, which represents the highest diploma obtainable in actuarial' science, lias' only been achieved by one | other New Zealander since the examinations were instituted here some twenty-eight years ago, viz., by Sir. Percy Muter, of the same Derailment. Lieutenant A. French, N.Z.K.8., returned to Wellington by the Taimii vesterdav. He was ship's adjutant throughout the voyage. Among those who returned by the Hororata. from England yesterday was Sapper S. H. Mason, eldest son of Mrs. Mason, of 18 Thompson Street. Sapper Mason.- who was in the-Wireless Corps, has been on active service for' just over three Years. Sapper J. Bartholomew, cf Levin, accompanied by Mrs. Bartholomew, arrived bv the Taimii from England yesterday. Mr. F. C. t'other, who has been for a number of years chief clerk m the Canterbury Jockey Club's office, has been appointed acting-secretary to tlio club for six months, Mr. W. H. K. Wanklyn having resigned the position on account of ill-health after 2!) years' service. According to Christchureh advices, Captain C. L. Mullany, of the New Zealand Rilie Brigade, sou of Sub-Inspector Mullany, of the Christchurch police force, lias been awarded the Royal Humane Society's framed certificate for courage and. humanity in a rough sea off Palace Pier, Brighton, England, on August 17, 1917. A bather got into difficulties whilo swimming in the surf, and two others went to lvis assistance. They, too, got into difficulties, and had to be rc-scuod.' Seeing the plight of the first bather, Captain Mullany, although fully dressed, jumped oti the pier, a height of about GOft. above sea level, and, after a struggle, managed to bring the drowning man ashore. At thi! time of the incident Captain Mullany was convalescing. He is now acting as an instructor to cadets in the North K'aiul. The death is reported at Dunediu of Mr. Mungo Watson, M.A., one of the pioneers of. education in Otago. Mr. Watson has bean for many- years associated with the Otago Boys' High School He was born in 1857 in Ayrshire, Scotland, and commenced his career as a teaehei' at the Ayx Academy, and subsequently at Glasgow Academy, in which he remained for some 18 months. Owing to ill-health lie came to New Zealand as assistant rector to the Beys' High School. He 'arrived in Dunedin in 1883, since which time he has occupied a prominent place /on tlio staff. Mr. A. G. Barnett.. assistant-secretary of the Wellington Harbour Board, has been absent from' the office for about a week owing to indisposition.. The Rev. J. M. Steward was yesterday consecrated Bishop of Melanesia at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. The' ceremony was conducted by Bishop Sprott (Wellington), Bishop Julius (Christchurch), and Bishop Averill (Auckland). Bishon Steward is an old boy of Radle.v School, and graduated at Magdalen College. Oxford.' From there he went to Ely Theological College, and in 1902 _he joined the Melanesian Mission, coming out to Norfolk Island on tlio mission ship Southern Cross's maiden voyage from England. During the whole of his seventeen years with the mission, lie was at the Solomon Island's. He hns had charge of'the heathen island of'Gnada■leanar, and the Christian island of Ploridi}. Latterly his work has-been at tlio college for natives at Maraveye. This .evoiiing a social gathering to bid Godspeed to the new Bishop and his staff on their departure for Melanesia, will bo held in the Masonic Hull, when the New Zealand Board of Missions will be .inaugurated. The-Bishop of' Wellington rill preside and the Bishop of Nelson will speak.