PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Captain J. Graham, of Pahiatua, ha 6 liH’n killed in action. Mr J. C. Maddisnii, of Christchurch, left .or the south last night. Lieutenant Oscar Gallic, of Masterlon, hail been awarded the Military Cross. Sergeant. R. Perry, son of Mr J. P. Perry, of Sulphur Wells, Maaterton, has been wounded in action. Private K. D. Russell, son of Mr J. M. Russell, of Fealherslon, was killed in action on September 29th. Mr J. H. C. Bond, general traffic manager of the Union Company, arrived at Wellington yesterday morning by the Maori from south. Mr W. .1. Mdicowii. of the Wellington branch of the Labour Department, has resigned, alter lii’teen years" service, on account; of ill-hcaltn. \ Press Association message from Gisborne states that Mr Slinger, cu- ■ ginoer to the Dunedin Drainage Board, has been appointed borough engineer nt Gisborne. Miss Grant, who resides at 22, ICenwv’n < terrace, was admitted to..tho lies-; pilnl at 10.10 o'clock Inst evening suffering from severe burns about mo hands, arms and chest. Private, advices have been received l from Llcurenant T* Ei. 1 ■ Scddon, M.P., who took part in the recent heavy, fighting nt Graveiistafol and the Abraham. Heights, reporting “All’s well.:” Tho Revs, L. Thompson, J. McGregor Welch, aiid J. Cathcrwood, and Messrs MoKf.nrie. Fisher and Dagg will represent the Wairarapa Presbytery’ no the conference of the General Assembly -ah Dunedin. ~ ... _ 1 There is a great improvement in the . health of Mr K. B. Chicfi Inspector of the General Post Office, who has been seriously indisposed. He ex-1 pacts to resume duty in tho course of a few days. | Mr Alex. R,. Watson, of Sydney, a large property- owner in Auckland, is.; dead. Some time ago he handed oven: to the Auckland Hospital Board his fine residence at Dcvonport as a con vales-, cent homo for wounded soldiers. . .. ■ Private Chudleigh Kirtou, who was one of tbo eight New Zealand soldiers killed on, the railway line near - Ply-. 1 mouth, England, recently, was tho. youngest son of Mr R. Kir ton, of Fitz-.j roy, Taranaki, formerly chief postmaster at Nelson. -j The Rev. 0. M. Stont has just been' transferred from tho Opunako parish to Eastbourne, Wellington. There was a large attendance of parishioners and ’re-i sidents of Opunake at a farewell social to the Rev. and Mrs Stent prior " to their departure. 1 " j Ek-Constable Dennis McKinley, wh<f resigned from the Lambton quay police in order to cruise with tho 34 th Reinforcements, was presented yesterday afternoon with a pipe and ’pocket-book by) his late colleagues at Lambton quay! police station. Constable J- Forsyth m»de tho presentation. • . j Mr H. L. Spratt, who since his return from tho war has been acting as military representative on tbo Second Wellington Military Service Board, ha«j resigned his appointment in order t< devote trls -time to the practice of t’* profession as a soMcditor in Rawer a. j Mr John Andrew Higginson, late o) Whlariiawhalba, who died; in Hamilton Hospital, saw service during the war in Taranaki. He wan also in Major von Tcmpsky’s Forest Bangers, and was with that famous bus'll fighter in the action at Ngutu-o-te-Manu, which terminated fatally for the leader. Tho work of Mr F. A. Midlane, fc former, member of the Wellington Cricket Association, committee, was spoken oj in high terms at the meeting on Tucsdfay evening. By his departure for Auckland tho association has aost a valuolbflie member, anal his good services were placed on record. At tho annual meeting of th® toebnologioa'i section of tiho Wellington Ph'iioe.Ophical Sojaiety last evening a vote of sympathy was accorded, tho relatione of tffic Late Lieutenant C. G. Johnston, a young member of the section, who L*jdo the supremo sacrifice on th© French front. News has been received of the death of Gunner Keith D. Russel), eon of Mr J. M. Russell, Featliewtoli, who was killed in action on September 29th. He wan 23 yearn’ of jxge, and was a member of tho Samoan Advance Guard, .and later of the Ifitfi Reinforcements. Deceased was well known in athletic and swim- ' ming circles. ' ' ■ j Tho death was recently reported, of| Captain John Graham, who was for. many years in the New Zealand Railway Service, having been etationmaster nt Otane, Hawke's Bay, and at Lincoln, Canterbury. The deceased took a keen! interest in soldiering, and wae a mem-| her of the Railway Engineers Corps. Ho; is survived by a wife and throe child-i ren. who livo at Pahiatua. 1 The doaith of tho Bari of Ed'gcumb*,! cabled to Now Zealand the other day, I meant nothing to most Now Zealanders. 1 ■though there is a mountain in tho Bayj of Plenty called after him. Buit His Jjorritih.ip figures in aft least one good l story. A certain dignitary of tho Church of England in his part of England was offered high preferment. In writing to accept it he said that he had come to his decision “after earnest prayer to,the Almighty and consultation ..with the Earl of Mount Hdgcumbo.” A soldier well -known-iw the*-Auckland district was Private Frederick Browne, of the Australian Forces, whose death-in action is reported. The deceased, who Wa« 28 years of age, camo to New Zealand about 17 years ago, and .went fanning at Matamata. Ho tried to join, the Main Body, and bn being unsuccessful, 1 went to Australia to enlist. Private Browne was a nephew of the late Hon. Janies McGowan, and his 'nesUbf-kin is Mr E. G. Browne, farmer, of Hinucra, who served in the South African War. Deceased was a native of Wells, Somerset. Advice is to hand of (he death in-ac-tion of Sergeant Charles H. Still, only von of Mr Peter Still, managing director of Littlejohn and Son, Ltd., Lambton quay. The deceased who was a popular young man, 20 years of ago, was born in Sydney, and received his education at Clyde Quay School .Wellington College, and the Scots College in Melbourne, Victoria. He was at the Government Experimental Station 'at Rankura for r-omo time, and afterwards went to. his uncle’s farm nt Danncvirke. He reeved in tho Rifle Brigade, and was the Military Medal for conspicuous work at Messines. The death occurred last Sunday of Mr R. M. Baird, aged 59, telegraph engineer for the Auckland district. The der.based, who wae a native of Tasmania, entered the Post and Telegraph •orvice in Wellington almost 40 years ago- He was connected with the Co<dc Strait and other New Zealand undcr-sea cables as assistant engineer, n’id wa« in charge of .tho laying of the Great Barrier Island cable. In 1891 he rose to be telegraph engineer at Auckland, and during this appointment he superintended the laying of the Pacific Cabla Board’s overland cable from the West Coast to Tnliapuna, with a loop to the Auckland offices of the board. In hii earlier days Mr Baird was connected with the founding of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Aoeairiation newspaper, the “Katipo”; he was for some year* chairman of the management commute* of dbat journal, and edited the chees column of the paper. Mr Baird is survived by a willow, daughter and two eons, one of whom is serving jn franc* and the other in the Nayy.