PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15489, 17 January 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr E. E. Coghlan has resigned the position of, postmaster at Samoa, and will shortly go into camp. He went away with the first force to Samoa. Miss H. E. Drake was the successful applicant for the position of county clerk to the Weber County Council, with headquarters at Ti TVee Point, Hawkc's Bay. Amongst the latest enlistments is Mr Leslie Beynolds, C.E., engineer for the Wairoa harbour works and many, other important engineering undertakings in New Zealand. The Rev. Canon Tuße, who has been vica r of St. Augustine's Church, Napier, for the years, has been made an archdeacon and appointed to tho district of'Tauranga. The Rev. Eric Rice, of Tauranga, succeeds him at Napier. A private cable message received in Wellington states that Lieutenant- F. F. Newman, Royal Horse Artillery, has gone to Flahders. Lieutenant Newntan is a member of the firm of Moorhouse, Hadfield, and Newman, solicitors. Wellington, and only son of Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P. Father Kincaid, parish priest at Carterton, who has been acting as chaplain at the Tauherenikau- Camp, lint received the-appointment of Cap-tain-Chaplain on the iospital ship 3£aheno. Father Segrief will replace Father- Kincaid as chaplain at Taunerenikan.

Mr George H. Sherwood, Clerk of the. Court at Coromandel, died on Thursday, after a short illness. The deceased, who was a member of a wellknown Nelson family, was for in any years in the Government service at

Nelson; and was subsequently stationed at Westport, Kumara, Balclutha, and Coromandel. Major Falla, who was awarded the D.5.0., started his career as a gunner in the B Battery, of which he was captain when he enlisted. He was a prominent member of the Otago Rowing Club. Major Falld left a responsible position in the head office of the Union Steam Ship Company to go to the front. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Young, C.M.G., who is amongst the New Zealanders honoured by the King, is 'the only surviving son of the Rev. R. Young, vicar of St. Mark's. Carterton. When he enlisted he was practising his profession of dental surgeon in Marton, where he was very popular. He went away with the Main Body with the rank of major, and since then he has been awarded the D.S.O. and made a C.M.G.

News 'Iras been received of the death, at Dublin, on January 10th, of Mys Laura S. Glendinine, owner of Waihua Station, Hawke's Bay. The late Mrs Glendining arrived in Hawke's Bay some 32 vears ago with her husband, the late Mr John Glendining. who had purchased the Waihua property. The deceased lady leaves a grown-up family of four sons and one daughter—Dr Brydon Glendining, now in charge of the Woburn Abbey Military Hospital: Dr. Vincent Glendining, recently at the front, but how back in London: Captain Albert Cecil Glendining, recently invalided home from the Dardanelles; Mr E. H. Glendining, of Waihua; and Mrs Hunter Pringle, of Dublin. ( The famous English cricketer and allround sportsman. Colonel R. M. Poore, J>.S.O., ha- been gazetted BrigadierGeneral while commanding, a brigade. His name (says an exchange) takes us back to the late nineties, when, after making a great reputation, aa a batsman in India and South Africa, Major Poore, as he then was, appeared in the Hampshire team. He proved himself a sterling batsman in 1898, ;but in the following season he eclipsed anything that had ever been recorded in the direction of batting. Between June 12th and August 12th he scored 1399 runs in 16 innings, with an average of 116-.58. His top score was 304, against Somerset.

Captain John Murray Rose, who was mentioned in Friday's cable messages as having received the Military Cross, served for 24 years in the Cameron Highlanders, which regiment he joined when he was 16 years of age. He afterwards came to New Zealand and served as a musketry expert for eight years in district. Prior to that he had seen service in the Soudan campaign. Captain Rose left with the •New Zealand' Main Expeditionary Force, and although, he was three times wounded he had only one week's rest at Lemnos. The excellent work done by his machine-gun section was specially mentioned by General Godley, and Captain Rose later on was engaged, at the request of the Australian Commander, .instructing an Australian machinegun section in Egypt, subsequently returning to the firing-line.

On Saturday the employees of Messrs P. and D. Duncan, Tuam street, met in the fitting shop to bid farewell to Mr W. D. Henderson, who is leaving the firm's employ after twenty-five years' service. Mr A. Hoddinott, the oldest hand in the fitting shop, on behalf of the employees, spoko in eulogistic terms of the sterling qualities of _\lr Henderson, both as a worker and shop mate, after which he presented Mr Henderson with a handsome watch suitably inscribed. Mr Jas. Keir, works manager, spoke of the guest as an ideal workman, and wished him every success in his new sphere. Other speakers, representing various branches of the establishment, were Messrs Jas. Woodham, C. Sturroclc H. Robbins, and" Jas. Hull, after which Mr Henderson, who leaves for Wellington to-night, returned thanks.

Rqgimental-Sergeant-Major T. J. G. Rutland, W.O. Royal New Zealand Artillery, who'died suddenly at the Auckland Hospital last Wednesday, was one of the most highly-esteemed officers, as he was one of the most capabte officers of the Auckland detachment of the R.N.Z.A. (says the "Star"). He had seen about 20 years' service in the .New Zealand Forces, and was 39 years of age. He .had served in all the coast defence stations in New Zealand, and was as well known and well liked in Dunedin, Lyttelton, and "Wellington as in Auckland'. He held the position in Auckland of gunnery' instructor to the Garrison Artillery Division. SergeantMajor' Rutland a few years ago was sent Home for 12 months' special instruction, going through the long gunnery course at Hythe. Two years ago he was raised to warrant officers' rank. Tall, and of commanding physique, he was a well-known figure m the military life of Auckland coast defence activities. He leaves a widow and two young boys.