PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15486, 13 January 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Rev. Edmoiidson Webb, vicar of Prebbleton, has been appointed clerical delegate to the C.E.M.S. annual conference at Napier. Mr W. Scott has been elected emplovers' representative on the Arbitration Court, in place of Mr E. F. Dut-hie, resigned. Mr Scott formerly occupied the same position. Mr F. Vesey Robinson, of the St. Albans Unit of the C.D.C, who left for Trentham last night, was made the recipient of a presentation by his comrades of the Unit in the afternoon. The death is announced of Mr Harold H. Wardell, of Stronvar, Wairarapa. He was a son of the late Mr H. S. Wardell, S.M., and was a sJbgle man, 45 years of age. Mr and Mrs A. J. Ellingham. of Hastings, have been informed bv Lieut. Casserley, a returned Napier soldier i that their eon, Private Claude Ellingham, was in the Pont de Koubch Hospital at Cairo. Private EUingham was reported missing after the Suvla Bay landing on August Bth last. Mr H. Westmacott, of Jimaru. has received word that his son, Lieutenant Spencer Westmacott, who was severelv ■wounded in the Dardanelles and went to England, has now sufficient]}- recovered to leave hospital, and is spending a holiday with relatives in Somersetshire. By the death of Mr J. Sohman. at Oxford on Sunday, at the ripe age of 88 years, one of the last active participants in the Dominion in the Indian Mutiny passed away. Mr Soliman was a Gurkha, and was one of the friendly natives who secured the escape and saved the life of the late Sir Cracroft Wilson, for which act he received a pehsion. Mr Sohman had been invalided for two or more years. A unique event took place at Waiuku on Tuesday (says an Auckland message), when Mrs P. Kinct celebrated her 100 th birthday. Mrs King was born in Tasmania in 1816. and arrived at the Bay of Islands in 1840 in the brig Falcon. As they . were clearing Sydney PI.M.S. Herald passed bearing Captain Hobson, who called there on his way to take possession of New Zealand in the name of Queen Victoria. Mr Richard Hicks, who resides with his son, Mr R. T. Hicks, at Tikorangi. must surely be able to lay claim to be one of the oldest men in Taranaki (says the "Taranaki News"). The old gentleman. who will bo 89 years of age in the course of a month or two, is still hal© and hearty, and can walk about with comparative ease. Though, of course, his eyesight will not permit of his reading, he still takes a keen interest in tlie war, and can intelligently follow the news that is read out to him. He is a native of Devon and arrived in Auckland in 1870, soon afterwards settling in Taranaki,, where he has resided ever since.

Yesterday afternoon there was a gathering of members of the Canterbury Owners' and Breeders' Association and others connected with the sport of trotting, to bid farewell to Mr H. E. Goggin, who has for twelve years been clerical assistant to.the secretary of the New Zealand Metropolitan, Canterbury Park, and New Brighton Trotting Clubs, and has now been accepted for Bctive service and left last evening for Trentham. Captain Owles, president of the New Brighton Trotting Club in proposing the health of Mr Goggin, said that his own association with the sport had been comparatively brief, but ho had always found him courteous and obliging and ever willing to do all he could to assist those who had business to transact with the various clubs. He congratulated Mr Goggin on the step he was taking, and wished him a safe return. Mr W. J. Moir, president of the Qwners' and Breeders' Association, on behalf of tho subscribers, presented Mi' Goggin with a Kodak camera, and also spoke in terms of appreciation of the manner in which he had discharged his duties. Mr C. W.' Hervey, secretary of tho Association, gave Mr Goggin a gold-mounted tobacco pouch as a. personal gift. Mr Goggin renlied briefly, expressing his appreciation of the kind remarks that had been made and tne gifts that he had received. '