PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, who iB at present on a visit to Sydney, is seriously ill. A cablegram received yesterday by Archbishon Redwood from the secretary to the Papal delegate stated that liis Lordship was to undergo au operation this morning.

Tho Hon. J. A. Millar, M.L.C., will leave Auckland this week for Wellington, where lis will take his seat as a member of the Legislative Council. Mr. Millar's health showed a marked improvement last week.

Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, is at present on a business visit to Auckland.

Mrs. C. A. W. Monckton, late of Otaki. who is now in tho Old Country, has very greatly improved in health within the past few months.

Lieutenant E. E. Stealey, nephew of the vicar of Levin, is now in the trenches on the French border. In less than one week from tjie time of his leaving England lie was within forty yards of the German trenches, and very soon afterwards (while looking through a periscope) he was wounded in the chia by a German sniper.

Mr. C. A. Whituiore Monckton, lat© of Otaki, is now adjutant of the Sherwood Foresters, ill Kent.

Cable advice was received on Saturday from Alexandria by Mr. J. Aston, Karori Road, to say that his son, Private Eardloy H. Aston, who is at the Dardanelles, was quite well. The message also indicated that an old Wellingtonian, Corporal Ted. Pctrie, had arrived at the front.

Mr. H. Miller, who lias been appointor! first assistant at the Brittomart Street School, was entertained by the teacbinc staff of the Matserton District High School 011 Friday, and presented, with several tokens of esteem.

Second Lieutenant R. D. M'Farland, 16 Waikato Regiment, will leave for Trentliam on July 9, to take up a commission as second lieutenant in the Eighth Reinforcements. Lieutenant M'Farland is a son of Canon E. J. M'Farland, vicar of St. Barnabas' Church. Mount Eden.

' Mr. 0. C. Choyce, M.D., F.R.C.S., Auckland, lias been appointed major in command of the 19tli General Hospital, attached to the British Army. Writing by the last mail Major Choyce stated that the destination of the hospital was not then known. Associated with him are two other Auckland medical men, Dr. Gunson and Dr. Vickerman. The hospital is one of 1040 beds, and of these over 800 are under Major Choyce.

Captain Roberts, late master of the Kamoua. who lias been laid aside with illness at Christclnuch_ for some time past, was brought to Wellington by the AYahine yesterday. He was taken to bis home in Hay Street, Oriental Bay, and is reported to bo in a very serious condition. Captain Roberts is well known in New Zealand waters, and lias been associated with the t Union Steam Ship Company for some time past.

Mr. Peter M'Coll, superintendent of the Wellington Municipal Tramway Power Station, has been advised by cable message that his son (Lieutenant A. B. M'Coll), who was wounded on. April 28, has rejoined the Wellington Battalion. When he enlisted, Lieutenant M'Coll was stationed at Taumarunui as the representative of Messrs. Thomson and Farrer, surveyors, Hamilton,

A number of friends of Mr. J. A. B. Howe, of Brougham Street, who have enjoyed the latter's hospitality for many months, took occasion to present their generous host with a snooker sot on Friday last. The presentation was accompanied witli all good mshes for the future welfare and happiness of Mr. Howe.

The retiring members of the Education Board, Messrs. Wm. Allan (city ward), Sir W. C. Buchanan (Wairarapa ward), and J. Kebbell (Hutt-Horowlie-nua ward) have been nominated for a renewed term of office.

Mr. Joseph. Blascheck, the well-known entertainer, was a passenger from Lyttelton on Saturday.

Mr. Matthew Smith, proprietor of the Waimate "Times," died last week, aged fifty-nine years. The, deceased was a printer by trade, having served his apprenticeship in Edinburgh. -Ho oame to New Zealand when man and worked on the Lyttelton Times," being afterwards foreman lor the late Sir W. J. Steward m the first days of the Waimate "Times." He was once a member of the Timaru School Board, the Waimate School Committee, Public Library Committee, clerk of session of the Presbyterian Church, and superintendent of the Sunday. School for twenty years. He leaves a wife and.seven daughters.

A prize-winning pedigree bulldog, a prize cockerel, and- a number of pigeons will bo sold at the New Zealand Patriotic Society's auction mart, Willis Street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Small dairy farms on easy terms aro now for ready disposal by the agents, Messrs. Parker and Vincent, Levin.