PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Elliott Lewis, sometime Premier of Tasmania, is-now on a visit to Wellington. Inspector pill, of the Hawke's Bay • Education District, arrived in. Wellington last evening. Mr. E. J. Stock, FJ3.5.A.1.A., actuary and general manager of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, arrived in Wellington yester■iday from Melbourne, via Auckland. . Mr. C. M. Lnko is to leave for Australia to-morrow to act as lay representative of the Methodist Conference of New Zealand on the.Board of For«ign Missions, the annual meeting of jWhich body is to be held in. Sydney on i next. , The death of Mr. E. N. Senior, general manager of the Trust and Agency . 'Company of Australasia, is reported , from London. Mr. Senior was' well known and highly esteemed in financial circles in Australia and New Zealand. ■ Mr. S. 0. Gillies, of the Valuation Department at Invercargill, is coming to Wellington to join the Head Office ifitaff of the Department. Mr. W. Salmond,, eldest son of- Mr. tend Mrs. J. W. Salmond, who has been 'receiving his training on Salisbury Plain, has been advanced to tho rank lance-corporal, and has been recommended by his major, Lord Charles ißentinck, for a commission as soon as *thoy are sent to the front. Mr. C. H. D. Canavar left for Auckland, Rotorua, and New Plymouth by. tho Main Trunk Express last night. Mr. A. Harris, member for Waite'mata, arrived from Auckland yesterday, ind will spend a few days here transacting Departmental business. '■ Advioe has been received of the death in England of Mr. William Shepherd 'Allen, M.A., of Annandale, Piako, at the ago_ of 83 years. Mr.' Allen was a Dative of Manchester, where he was ■born in 1831. As far back as 1865 he was elected to the House of Commons in the Liberal interest. He joined the 'Unionists when the split occurred over the Home Jlulo question. In 1885 he (Settled in New Zealand, and was elected to represent To Aroha in 1890, but was unseated owing to an irregularity. Subsequently Mr. Allen contested the. Parcell seat unsuccessfully. . Mr. Glen Addison, a' member of the well-known Victorian lawn tennis family, who was until a year or two ago one .of the leading players in Victoria, has enlisted in -tlie Commonwealth forces for the war. His elder brother, Mr. _J. J. Addison, holder of many; Australian championships, who was in England at the outbreak of war, was among the first to enlist there. Mr. E. S. Barker, Hamilton's oldest resident, celebrated his 99th birthday on January 18.