PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15612, 9 June 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr "VY. B. Seott leaves Christehurch to-morrow on a trip to Italy and France. Mr P. L. Payne, stationmaster at Moaua (West Coast), has been transferred to Addington. Mr A. H. Courtis, who for several years has been manager for the New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. at Bluff, has been transferred to Invercargill. The death occurred at Carterton on Monday night o£. Mrs Mette Christine Lorenzen, a very old settler, at the age of 91 years. Mr Sydney Johnston, who is leaving for England on Monday next, has handed in a eheoue for £1000 to the treasurer of the Takapau Patriotic Committee. • Mr R. G. Whctter. M.A.. Inspector of Schools for Taranaki, has received notice that lie will shortly be transferred to Napier. in the Hawkc's Bay Education District. Mr A. L. Moore, director of the Ashburton Technical School, has had to undergo a serious operation for his eyes in a Cliristchurch hospital, and he will bo unable to resume his duties for some time. Sergeant Bingham, officer-in-chargo of the police district. Central Otasro. died suddenly at Clyde on Wednesday night. .He had n bad attack of rheumatic fever about 18 'months ago, which affected his heart. A presentation of a military knife was made by Messrs Brown Bros., electrical engineer#, to two of their employees, A. Rendle and F. E. Eichard, who have enlisted with the infantry section of the Seventeenth Reinforce-mc-n ts. The ''Guardian" slates that Mr J. W. Brownlce will shortly bo leaving Havelock to take up his permanent residence in Cliristchurch, from which centre he will control • recently acquired sawmilling interests for the firm of Brownlce and Co. The death occurred on Tuesday of Mrs Mary Ann Campbell, relict of the late Duncan Campbell, on her farm. Creekside. at' Hillgrove. Otago, and the district loses one of its oldest identities. For over 60 years Mrs Campbell re-sided in the district. She leaves two married daughters in the North Island, one married daughter in Canterbury, and two sons. Major Murray Gard'nor has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was born in Christehurch, and secured a cadetship at Woolwich some years ago, rettiruing to New Zealand in order to enter the Permanent Artillery. lie was in England when the war broke out, and joined the British Army, later transferring to the Xew Zealand forces in Egypt. When last heard of by mail he was in France. Mr Watson F. Cooper, one of the oldest printers in Canterbury, died on Wednesday morning at his residence, Madras street North. The late Mr Cooper, who had been in the "Lyttelton- Times" office for about fifty years, had been in ill-health for some time, and his death was not unexpected. Ho wa.s well-known in educational circles as a member of the Board of Governors of the<Christchureh Technical College, and was throughout his life a strong temperance reformer, being" one of the nest active members of the Order of Rechnbites. The dea"bh. is reported from Hawera of I>r. George Van Slykc, who was well known in Wellington ns a surgical specialist. He came from Canada to New Zealand nearly twenty years ago, practised his profession'in Wellington and other centres. For some years past he had been in bad health,- and about two years ago he met with a serious motor-car accident in Wellington, from tlie effects of which he suffered until his death. He has' loft a widow (a daughter of the.late. Mr E. T. Gillon, for many years editor of the Wellington "Evening Post") and two children.

Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that Lieutenant Jam'cs Short, who was killed in France on May 28th, was in the New Zealand Railway Service for 17 years, and was stationmaster at Ravensbourno when ho left for Samoa as lieutenant in tho Railway Engineers. He spent seven months there, and on his - return joined the Sixth Reinforcements as lieutenant in the Mounted. He spent two or three months on Gallipoli, was in the Royal Flying Squadron in" Egypt, and finally left for France. When a cadet at Outram railway station, he volunteered for service in South Africa, and joined his brother in the Seventh Contingent.

News has been received in Thinedln that Dr. "Tom" Mill, 3'oungest son of Mr John Mill, of Port Chalmers, has been appointed to the charge of the New Zealand Hospital at Wal-ton-on-Thames. Shortly after the war broke out, Dr. Mill (who was at one time in practice in Christehurch) threw up his lucrative practice at Geraidine, and _ went- to England and offered his services to the Govex-nment. The day after his arrival ho was appointed as second in charge at the Bristol Hospital, one of tho largest military hospitals in England, and now he hag been entrusted with th o responsibility of succeeding Lieutenant-Surgeon B. Myers (brother of the Hon. A. M. Myers), who did famous work at Walton. "

The death is reported by private cablegram from Sydney of Mr William Arthur Waddell, a well-known resident of Wellington. In 1872, with Mr William Weir, a nd the late Mr Arthur McLeod, lie established the business of Waddell, McLcod, and Weir timber merchants and sawinillers. Owing to failing health, he retired about eleven years afro, disposing of hi., interest to Mr William Hopkirk. The late Mr Waddell wa« one of the first men to build at Kclburn, and had resided in that now thriving suburb for over twenty years. At one time ho was a prominent member of St. John s Church. He was one of the original members of the Wellington Bowlin« Club.

Yet another "old boy" of the Terrace School, Wellington, has distinguished nimscii in the great war. A cablegram received by Mr James Laing, manager of the grocery department of Messrs W. and U. Turubull, announces that his brother, Lieutenant Charles Laing, of the lvoyal Scotch I' usiliers, has been | awarded the Military Cross for conspi- j cuous bravery at Caps Holies. Lieutenant Laing, who is a son of Mr Montague Laing, London manager of Sargood, Son, and Error!, was attachc'd to | the London branch of Dalgety and Company at the outbreak of the war. He immediately .joined the Fusiliers, and shortly after received his commission. Lieutenant 'Laing was badly wounded on Oallipo.i, and since last December has been ja hospital at Malta. Mr Alexander Ar ltotrong, formerly officer-in-chaigo of -;iio Terrace Gaol, \Yellington, died on Saturday, at the age of 74 years. At the age" of 17 lie entered the British Army, and was stationed in India, Malta, and Ceylon, retiring :vii!i the rank of regimental ser-geant-major. He then joined the Indian Civil Seivice" and was emploj-ed ill supervising road-makiny and bridgebuilding. Returning to England, ho decidcd to come out to New Zealand, and soon after his arrival in "Wellington he joined the Prisons Department, under Colonel Hume. He was stationed at Lyttelton, New Plymouth, and Dunedin before he was promoted to be gaoler atlnvercargill. After holding that position for three or four years, he became gaoler at Wellington in succession to the late Mr P. S. Garvey. On 31st March, 1909, he retired on superannuation. While at the Terrace ' Gaol he was stabbed in the :ieol; by a ' prisoner, and never quit:.' Recovered from the injury. He has left! a widow, three sons (two of whom arc at the front), a nd live daughters. 1