PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15536, 11 March 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

WrL M. I 4'". MT.. went north by U&t\sfcrrrboat. The Government B;olc S :st (Mr A n Cockavne) is on a departmental £j t to Canterbury. The ~Rcv Patrick O'Xcill, of Riversj.L Otnp'o. will accompany the 11th Reinforcements to the front, Mr K G. Leslie McCoy, of the Commercial iiank. Christchurch. left on Tuesdav night for Melbourne to join the Australian Expeditionary Force. \n Auckland te'e-rnm announces, the Ap'atb of Mr Edward Mo?,, who for seveoi vcars represented Oinnoinuri in the House of Representatives. advice has been received that Sur-ceon-Captain Alfred (lark, of Auckland has been transferred from the etftff'of the hospital ship Maheno to headquarters in Cairo.

private advice ha.- been received that : Pcont G. -V. M<-.\lpine left London on February With for >->w Zealand. He i , j e f t Christchurch with the Main Fxpe- ''•' ditionarv Force, took part in the land- \ jng on Gnllipoli. and. receiving serious pounds, was. invalided jr> Fngland, where he ba« heen under treatment • since May. VJK>.

Among the men v:lv> left Gore for Trentliam on Thursday morning was Private AV. J. Domigan, eldest sen of Jlajor and Mrs Domigan. of Gore. Major Domigan is alreadv ar the front, his second son. who joined the Main Expeditionary Force, is reported missing, and the third son is on the permanent staff at Crcymouth.

Mr W. Gopeland. of Dee street. Tnvercargill. has received word that his eklest brother. Private YV. Copeland. of the Australian Imperial Forces, has been killed i n action. Private Copeland left Victoria with the First Expeditionary Force, and was among the first to land at Gallipnli. He had also seen service in South Africa, having bee n right through the Boer War with, oot receiving a scratch.

Miss Mary Margaret Hickey (Sister Domitille. of the Convent, Lower High street), who has received notice that slie has passed the examination for M.A. ■ with first class honours in History, received her primarv education in the public school at Opunake, Taranaki, xrhcre she also served as pupil teacher. For the last four years she has been a student at Canterbury College, and last year, besides graduating 8.A., she was "awarded the senior scholarship of the University in History.

Some of the commercial travellers who are staying at the Clarendon Hotel met tho manager, Mr Tom Beveridge, and presented him with a handsome suit case as a mark of appreciation of the courtesy he has always extended to them, both during his" managership of tho Grand Hotel in Wellington and the Clarendon in this city. Mr Beveridgc i s on the eve of his departure to Scotland, where he intends tq. t enlist: The presentation was made W 3fr Chas. G. Pemberton, and Messrs C. H. Woodcock. J. Beveridgo, aid other well-known travellers atso rake.

Mr* Henry William Heath, an old resident ef Auckland, died on Tuesday, MWT74 years. Very many vears ago Xt Heath was manager of the North Shore Ferry Company. Later lie retired from that position and started as a land and estate agent. Subsequently he was appointed the first agent ,in Auckland for the London and Lancashire Insurance Company. Somo , rears ago tf r Heath went to Chico in California, where he was engaged' in business. Returning to Auckland •bout 12 years ago. he had resided there ever since. Mr Heath was one of the .oldest members of. the Auckland Bow]- .£ ing Club. Wednesday's Nelson "Colonist" has the folomng.'-lt ,'„ pleasing to record -in l? / 8fl ?° of jnlmg serv i ce w ] lich •„ , L „r !* ki «wtrMfc to the conduct of IfeW 6 men who aro :s?^H Bnd , m S tW-country's call. W- of Har akeke. Moutore, «£^°' dC r ? f J h r ° South Afr *an #*li m ?T- I i , I cn i' B^ d , for activo service ,s|»#e H'ghland Light Infantrv at the : '32r* • A , r * orv ' n g with this $m? w a t,mo ' J lO joined tho Scottish Horse, and served with them in Mffim i Zca '«] nd - c has now left a itgSn.shccn farm to tho care of his l |KiT* and ,s again responding to «- i-.T Tnor e "?cn. Mrs Yuill and Jttfff, child are livinc; with tho wife's •i r p?^^ e h,,l ? band ' s ahsenee. left ISelson ypstordav in the 8, " - th s fourteenth ReinIgwaents at Trentbam.