PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 80, 30 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Pilkmgton, formerly Acljutnnl-Gciienil on Headquarters Staff, has returned to Wellington after three years' service experionco in franco and EnglandMr. J. O'Donovau, Commissionor of Police, is at present in tho South Island inspecting the southern police stations. Among tho officers who returned by tho Ruahine was Lioutonant A. H. King, of the Otago Kcgimont, and formerly a member of the commercial stall of Tub Dominion. Lieutenant King left New Zealand as a private • with tho Second Reinforcements in December, 1914, and won his way forward until ho was given a commission in 1917. lie fought right through tho canipaiga in Franco without serious hurt until November i, 1918, when in tho lighting at Lo Quesnoy, after tho town had l>een surounded, ho was struck on the leg by a piece of shrapnel, and so severe did the wound prove to be that the leg had to bo amputated. Seven days later camo the nows that an armistice had been declared C.S.M. Archibald J. Hunt, son of Rev. A. E. Hunt, of Wellington, returned by the Ruahine after an absence of over five years. Leaving with tho Main Body, Sergeant-Major Hunt, was dangerously wounded at tho landing at Gallipoli in April, 1(115, and was three months in hospital. Returning to Gallipoli, ho was again wounded, and for three months was paralysed. On his recovery he proceeded to Franco, and in the Sommo offensive of September, 1916, he was wounded.for the third time and stricken dumb by shell shock, his voice ultimately returning under hypnotic treatment. Invalided to England, ho later joined the staff at the Discharge Depot, Torquay, where ho remained until his departuro for New Zealand. During his stay in Torquay he sufficiently recovered to ennblo him to take part in Rugby football matches ajid played for the Discharge Depot and Torquay Athletic Club teams. Mr. Frank Charlton, lata of Wellington, did not return to this city as a r.unber of the Grand Opera Company. Mr. Charlton completed liis. engagement vith the company in Sydney, and then accepted another ongagement elsewhere. Mt. Henry Newman, of the well-known Nelson mail coaching Arm, died at his residence in Brightwater last week, at the ago of G9. Deceased, who was horn at Spring Brook, Nelson, had been in illhealth for a long time before his death. His eldest 6on married a daughter of the late Mr. James Colvin, M.P., Weatport. The late Mr. Newman was a nephew of Mrs. Paul Coffey, of Oriental Bay, Wellington. Mr. G. Manson, New Zealand Government Agent in Melbourne, arrived n Wellington by the Manuka, and will spend hi 3 annual vacation in New Zealand. Mr. W. B. Caldow, secretary of the Royal Choral Union, who has been on a visit to England, is a passenger by the Ruapehu, due to arrive in Auckland on January'3o. During his stay in London Mr. Caldow was made a guest at the London Choral Society's performance of "Elijah," and at the interval was invited to tho nrtisis' room, where he met Sir Frederick Bridge (tho conductor). Madame Kirkby Lunn, and other, distinguished artists in l th_e_ English musical world. On that occasion he was accompanied by Mr. W. J. Lankshear, of Wellington. Mr. Benno Scherek, who has introduced many musical stars to Now Zealand, returned Jo Wellington by the Manuka on the musical staff of ' the Williamson Grand Opera Company. During the past live years he has been professionally engaged in England and America. Mr. Frank Hutchens, tho brilliant Ifawera pianist, now on the .staff of the New South Wales Government ConBorvatorium, Sydney, arrived from Australia by the Manuka on Sunday evening. After a brief visit to his peoplo he is to tour with tho Verbrugghen Orchestra as 6010 pianist. Mr, Jerome ' Patrick, formerly of Dunedin, who has had a varied theatrical career in America and who lately staged "Daddies" for Messrs. J. and N. 'fait in Australia, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka en route to Dunedin. In New York, Mr. Patrick was fortunate in securing nn engagement under Mr. Belasco, and appeared successfully in tho war-timo play, "Marie Odile." > Mr. E. G. Bush, New Zealand manager for United States Rubber Company (Australasia), Ltd., returned to Wellington, from Sydney by tho 6.6. Manuka.

Mr. Frank Goldberg, minnging director of Tho Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., returned by the Manuka on .Sunday after a two mouths' visit to Australia.