PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14152, 14 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

\ Captain Macnab, who has been a resident of this city for some years past, Uv about to take up his residence at Waiigariui.

Surgeon-Captain Bett, who returned to New Zealand by tho Mahehp, will arrive in Nelson this mornino; oh short leave. . "

.^Lieutenants Stewart, Goss, and Donaldson,; who have been in training at the Duntroon College, have returned to New Zealand.

rrDuiM^ ael att ha 3 been appointed Health Officer for Otago. He was the first student to obtain a travelling scholarship in connection with'the New Zealand University. ' ' Captain T. McCristell, quartermaster at Trentham Camp, has been appointed as Major James O'Sullivan's successor as Director of Stores at Buckle street, Wellington. An old settler in New Zealand, Mr James Magmnity, a- relative of the Hon. A. T. Maginnity, of Nelson, ;and of the late Mr John Maginnity, of Wellington, died in: Wellington Hospital on Sunday. Deceased, who was 75 years of age, was through the Maori War. A Sydney Press Association eab!e announces the death of Mr Janies Angus> railway contractor,;aged; B]. He was run over and killed on the. railway. In his younger days lie was prominently .^connected with railway - dev'elbpment in New Zealand.. , ; -'.'lt. is a curious coincidence," says; the ' 'British Australasian," ''that while Mrs. Brough is playing the qiien boardinghouse keeper in "The Man who Stayed at Home^ at the Royalty (London), her sister. Miss Essima Temple, is playing the same part iv the same play in Melbourne." Major Hsiselden, of Barberton, Transvaal, a vNew Zealander, serving witii the South African forces, has been severply wounded. Mrs Haselden (nee Miss Hilda Ladley, formerly" of Nelson) went to South Africa as a teacher after the Boc-r War. . The death of Mr Richard Harding Davies, the novelist and war corresypondent, from hcjirt troublia, is reported from New York by a Press Association cable. Mr Davies saw something of how the Germans "hacked their way through" Belgium. Lieutenant E. V. G. Day, who for the past 12 months has been in choree of the Ashburton Defence Area Office, left Ashburton on. Saturday for England, ,to join a regiment .there. The ■ area- office; is -now .in charge -of Lieutenant d! A.. S. L. 'Grut, who saw three months' active service on Gallipoli. Senior-Sergeant Dart, a well-known member of the New Zealand Police, who is at present stationed in Dunedin, is resigning from the force. Ho will take up the practice of law at Methven shortly, in partnership with a firm of Christchurch solicitors., Senior-Ser-geant Dart and Inspector O'Donovan are the only two fuily-qualified solicitors in the Police Force of the Dominion. Major Turnbuli, who, as a lieuic'n?ht, was stationed at Grevmouth on the permanent staff of the Defence Department, has been invalided to England as a result of wounds which he received at Gallipoli on May 2nd, when he led his party up Hell's Gully and displayed conspicuous bravery,' for which ho was awarded the D.S.O. The King invested the Major with the medal in January.