PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15606, 2 June 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

« —.— Captain John McLean, of Okaiterui station, Southland, is on a visit t< Christchurch. Mr W. A. Sow man (Blenheim), Sir J. Lilliqo (Timaru), and Mr P. Caroliu (Dunedin) are in town. Mr and Mrs R. W. Thompson, of Oamaru, are spending a holiday in Christchurch. Mr A. W. Bennett, manager of they. New Zealand Company, returned to Christchurch by the fen? steamer yesterday morning. -i; Mr J. M. Thomson and Mrs Thomson-; (Auckland) are on a visit to Christy church. They leave for Dunedin morrow. The death is announced of Mr Arthur Prebble, a well-known resident *of Blenheim. Ho was for some years a jJrominent figure in Marlborough » cricketing circles. Captain Arthur Allen, of New Plymouth,'who has lately come out from England, where he was an onthuijiasc in poultry circles, was one of tlio judges at the Poultry Exhibition yesterday in tho pigeon classes. Dr. Scannell, of Tcmuka, has,.received a cablegram stating that his brother, Surgeon-Captain W. G. Scannell, who has been suffering from fcever &nddysentery, has been reported fit for activo service again. Mr R. Hirter, of Ross, who recently celebrated the tiOth anniversary of his birth, was presented with an address by the Ross Borough Council, of which ho was a member for a number of years. He was also a Mayor of the town.

Mr J. E. Petherick, a member of tho Christcliurch Licensing Committee, has • been accepted for activc .service, and, left for Trentham on Wednesday evening. In apologising by letter tor his absence at yesterday mornings ing of the committee, he tendered lus resignation. Mr J. Tangney, 0 f Temuka, has had, six sons at the front, and last week 8 seventh. cnli6ted (writes our correspondent;. Two were killed, and one wj# wounded and is in hospital. Mr Tangney has four other sons, and two or these have declared their intention' of enlisting. •'

A large number of members and friends of tho Durham street Methodist Church met in the schoolroom Wednesday evening to bid farewell to; Colonel and Mrs CT J. Smith, who," I ®, about to proceed to England, Colonel Smith will offer-himself to'M® military authorities for active serviceThe Rev. P. N. Knight (who acted as chairman), Messrs J. C. Prudhofii and A. K. England, spoke of the excellent work done for the church •B<j' school by the guests of the evening,ano Mr England, on behalf of the and members of the church, presented Colonel Smith with a suitably worn® 5 letter on par.chment, luxuriously bouna.

Under date of April_ 23rd, our l0n " don correspondent writes: —One huD* dred permanently unfit men of Zealand Expeditionary Force, under the command of Major F. W*?■: Lieutenants P. J. Cotton and K. b&t left Paddington on Saturday raorni»§ for Plymouth, en route tor >cw /«*" land. I'he men were given an entfi»siastic farewell, the band of the Artillery attending and playidg selections ot music. The High sioner. Captain T. E. Donuo, and bers of the New Zealand War Contm . gent Association were present, an" wished the men bon voyage. are travelling by the Athenic. IMrtj Jv. Cotton, one of Lieutenant Cottons brothers, who was for the .service of the Bank of /c » land, left on Wednesday night with tn Seventeenth Heinforcemont dratt Trent-ham camp.]