PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. Dr. Gibb, of ; St.. John's Church, has returned from a visit to Invercargill. Major J. E. Hume, R.N.Z.A., has bean appointed inspector of artillery and engineers (temporary) during the absence of the Expeditionary Force, and has been granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-coionel. Regimental Ser-geant-Major H. A. Wilson, N.Z. Permanent Staff, has been promoted to tho position of an honorary lieutenant of tho R.N.Z.A. Major J. D. M'Gavin, N.Z.31.C, will act as principal medical officer, Wellington . Military District, during tho absence of Lieutenant-Col-onel 0. M. Begg. Regimental SergeantMajor W. 0. Bradley has also received an appointment as hon. lieutenant in thoRIN.Z.A. The following visitors to Wellington: wore recent callers at the Tourist Department :—A. M. Donald, Melbourne; James Heskefch, Southport, England: E. S. M'Kie, M.D., Cincinnati; E. P. Gardner, London; Alfred 13urne, Victoria; W. B. Poland, New York; W. L. Hamilton, Belfast, Ireland; E. M. Haniilton, Belfast, Ireland; B. L. and Misa Porter, Haw thorn, Melbourne; M. M. Allorge, Paris; E. J. Monck, Thebarton, Adelaide. The death occurred at Napier yesterday morning of Mr. E. J. Walsh, draper, well known in Wellington and the Weet Coast of the South Island. Misees N. and A. Walsh and Mesdaraes E. Sexton, R. Fantham, and A. E. Hadfield are daughters of the deceased. Mr.. Dan J. Hughes, a well-known settler, recontly of South Taranaki, where he took a prominent part in public life as a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, and a : director of tho Kaupokonui Dairy Company, and who ie an ex-representative Taranaki footballer, has been unanimously selected by the Liberal and Labour Federation to stand in the Liberal interests for the Taranaki seat at the general election, ,says a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth.. The Rev. Parata, son of Mr. 0. JParata, M.P.. is on his way from England to fill tne vacanoy oaused by the transference of the R«v. James Moreland from Invercargill. Mr. Parata studied at Selwyn College, New Zealand, was curate at St. Paul'.B, Dunedin, and went Home as ohaplain to Bishop Neville. From tnere ho was sent to Carthagena, in Spain, to conduct ser< vice at the. English Church there. Information has been received that Hr. Lionel Greenstreet, eldest son of Captain Greenstreet, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Renm* era, has been appointed to the position of chief officer of the ship Eudurance, which is taking Sir E. Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic. Adjutant Cook, who was one of the delegates to tho Salvation. Army Congress in London, was in Wellington yesterday. He left to resume duties at Auckland by the afternoon express. It is stated by the Nelson "Mail"ttiat Major A. E. Glasgow, of the Imperial Army, is a Brigade Major in the second Indian Contingent, which sailed for the front about August 20. He is an old boy of Nelson College. Another brother, Major W. J. Glasgow, who recently retired fTom the Imperial Army, has volunteered for .active service, and has been accepted, but it is not known locally what position ho now holds. Major W. J. Glasgow was the first Nelson Collegian to gain a commission in the Imperial Army. Since his time, many Nelson Collegians have entered the Army straight from the college, and quite a number now hold important commissions. A private telegram received in Weilington 'announces the death, in Auckland on Thursday, of. Mr. John Brooka Mason, -an- old and highly-respected settier. .The deceased' gentleman was a native of Leicester, England, and lived at Cape Town for some time before'he arrived in Auckland, about hah? a century ago. He went to the Thames when gold was discovered, and remained there until about fifteen years ago, when he settled at Epsom, Auckland. Two years ago he revisited his native town. Hβ has left two sons (Mr. Frederick Mason, of Auckland, and Mr. H. B. Mason, of Wellington), and font! daughters. At the annual meeting of tho Masterton Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr. C. E. Daniell was re-elected president, and Mr. J C. Cooper vice-presi« dent. Tile chairman of the Technical Education Board, Mr. Rober.teon, who hae been ill for some time, was able to preeide at last night's meeting of the board, and ho was heartily welcomed back by the members present. " Mr. J. R. Kirk, of Gisborne, arrived in the City yesterday, and is staying at the Hotel Cecil. . S Mr. AValter Holland, a welf-known Cheshire farmer, who recently came to New Zealand, has left Wellington fop, tho Napier district. The chief secretary of the Salvation • Army (Lieutenant-Colonel Powley) will return to town from Auckland this afternoon. ' Among the passengers who arrived at Sidney by the Otway from London was Mr. Percy Burbidge, of Wellington, who won the Exhibition Scholarship and went to Cambridge University. Mr. Burbidge became seriously ill while at Cambridge, and is now on his way baok to Now Zealand to recuperate.