PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

9 Mr Gerald Stead returned J u> Chr.&t hurch yesterday iroxa Australia. Sir Goor<r<, McLean arrived frorr Wellington ~by yesterday morning s ■rry .steamer. Advice has been received that 3>r. V. C.-Saiulston and Mrs Sundsion, ol .hriiitchurch, havo arrived safely at jiverpool. The death has occurred in tho Picion lospital of Mr Walter Litchfield, whe as fi'u orio time a prominent business lav in Blenheim. He was .63 years of Detective Carney, of Lyttelton, has .•ecoivetl notification of his transference o Wellington, and will leave Lyttelton •.tout the end of the month. He will ! jr succeeded by Detective Quartermain, >f Auckland. iSocoud-Lieuttmant 11. J. Drummond ■jheldon, who has been appointed to tho Bth Reinforcements, is well known in tho Ashburton district." and is tlio .'West son of Mr J. C. Sheldon, of Mt. Sorners. and grnndson of the late Rev. John Sheldon, who wn s for many years vicar of Amberley. r.nd later of Governor's Bay. Mr Harry Ro.ts Dix. who has been one of tho l'rrawady Flotilla Company's chief engineers for some years, is now with his vessel eiißagsd in Admiralty work between Epypt and the Dardanelles. Ho is the youngest sono of the late Mr H Ross Dix, at one time on tho literary staff, of the, Wellington "Post," ai'id «a brother of Mr H. Dix, of Rangiora. The death is announced at Wellington of Mr L. G. Mackay, late secretary of the' Wellington Investment Trust and Agency Company, who recently returned from a trip to the Old Country. Ho was a eon of the late Judge Mackay, of the Native Land Court, and his mother is still alive, a resident of Nelson, where Mr Mackay was born. There, too. ho was educated, primarily, and at the Nelson College. He went to Wellington in 1883 as an officer of the New Zealand Insurance Company, under Mr R. M. Simpson, late manager of tho Phoenix Insurance Company. In 1891 ho joined the Investment Trust and Agency Company, of which he was accountant and secretary up till a year ago. Ho was a single man. ' The Rev. A. Mitchell, of Lyttelton, has been appointed Methodist Chaplain t..-) the Seventh Reinforcements. The Rev. Mr Mitchell has been closely associated with the Volunteer and Territorial forces of the Dominion for tho last ten years, and has always been very popular with both officers and men. H© is in evory way admirably qualified for tho work which lu> is to undertake. His son, Private Mitchell, is now in camp at Waikanae, and will also proceed to the front with the Seventh Reinforcements. Mr Mitchell volunteered for scrvico months ago.