PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Frau Wagner is dying at Munich of senile debility. The Mayor (Mr H. Holland) and Mrs Holland and family are spending the ChristmasT and New Year holidays at New Brighton. . Mr H. R. Smith (Town Clerk) and Mrs Smith are sbending the holidays with their son, Mr Cednc Smith, at Camp Bay. . Mr O E.. Bowling, acting-registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, has been appointed assistant solicitor to tllo Public Trust Office. He will take up his new duties after the New \ear holidays. Mr Herbert Barr, representing the Department of Tourist and Health liesorts, has, left for Auckland to travel .with General Pau and the members of the French Mission on their tour through New Zealand. Mr W. McArley, general secretary of the New Zealand Engineers', Firemen, and Gleaners' Association, ha s be§n in Christchurch during the past two or three days, and is to leave th;s morning for the West Ooast to consult >vith the branches of the Association there on the subject of the demands being mado for increased pay. It is not generally known that FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig. Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Franco, visited Australia in 1592. On May 4th of that year he signed the visitors' book at the South Head fort, Sydney. He was then captain in the 7th Hussars Regiment. The mother of Sir Douglas was a Tasmanian, and he has relatives living in Tasmania. ' Signor Bustementc, who was mentioned in a cable message published on Monday as having been appointed a member of the new Bolivian Cabinet, is probably Signor .Cesar Montero Bustementc, who was at ono time Consul for Uruguay in Wellington, a position now held by Mr W. J. Prouse. After leaving New Zealand, Signor Bustementc went to Switzerland on behalf of the Uruguayan Government in connexion with emigration matters, and then returned to his native country. Mrs H. R. "Wilkinson, of Woodvillo street, St. Albans, has received word that her son. Corporal F. S. "Wilkinson, 4th Reinforcements, New Zealand Engineers, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry on the field of action. Corporal Wilkinson, at the time of his enlistment, was in the employ of Mr Herbert Pearce, builder, with whom

o had served his apprenticeship. He was a member of the Woolston Hockey C.ub and of the Methodist Church and Bible Class.