PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

The gradual improvement in tlio health of Dr. H. W. Cleary, .Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is being maintained. A cablegram to this effect was received from Sydney this week. Monsignor Biodic, of Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington. Ho is tho guest of Archbishop Redwood. Lieut. E. B. Beamish, Wellington .J Mounted Hides, lias cabled from Malta | 6 that ho was wounded in the chest, and a is now iu hospital, doing well, a Mr. William Smith, of Messrs. Smith io and Smith, Wellington, was advised io yesterday by cable that his son, Tpri Alan Murdoch Smith, Wellington Mountis cd Regiment, Main Force, was-wound--3j ed during the fighting at the Dari, danelles. and is now in the General Hospital at Cairo, where ho is reported >f to bo "doing well." Tpr. Smith, who was with Messrs. Sinith and Smith when IS he enlisted, in a letter to his father, states that tobacco would bo very welcome to the troops, and ho also mentions that leather carry-alls are much preferred to those made of canvas and such like material, as they staud the wear and tear so much better. Mr. L. J. Wahlers, purser of R.M.S. io Tainui, who has been appointed manager of tho. Wellington Club, left tho !jj ship at Wellington yesterday. Mr. Wah- » lers has been thirteen years at sea in l " tho capacity of purser. He joined the White Star liner Mectic as assistant J* purser, land was subsequently transi'erred to the Pelews, of the Alfred Holt Line, running out East and then to. tho Cyclops. Later Mr. Wahlers Joined tho Tainui as purser when she was launched in October, 1908, and has been purser of that vessel over since. Mr. Walilers's father has been victualling superintendent of. tho White Star Line, for 45 years. The death, occurred at his home in Upper Rata Road,*Hataitai, yesterday ; niorniug, of Mr. G. Sinclair, chief stevedore for the Shaw-Savill Company, who was seized with an epileptic fit while superintending the work of load- > ing tho liner Tainui on Tuesday even■t ing. The lato Mr. Sinclair was well [I known in shipping citteles, and has been connected with the Shaw-Savill Company for several years past. He leaves a wife and family; . Tho Wadostown School flag was flown at/half-mast on Tuesday as a mark of respect to the memory of an ex-pupil, h Sapper Reginald Mitchell (a son f of Mr. Joseph Mitchell, of tho Marine [_ Department Stores staff, Pipitca Point), who died in a Cairo hospital from typhoid last week. Lord Sydenham, one timo Governor of Victoria, has joined the Loud'on Committee of the Australian branch of the j. Red Cross Society.—Press Association, s Visitors at tho Albert Hotel are Mr. ,f and Mrs.'F. W. Adams, of Blenheim; f Mr. L. W. Atkinson, arid Mr. Weir, of Chris tchurch. Mr. Douald Currie, a former student '• of King's College, Auckland, and subsequently a resident in Waihi, is now at e the .front with the East Surreys, a iegiment to which many members of his ', father's family have belonged during the past two .centuries. AVhen tho war broke out, Mr. Currie was l studying for '• entrance to the Military College, Sandhurst. He immediately returned to r England, joined the New Zealand forces at Salisbury Plain, and was one of tho hundred selected to march through London on L,ord Mayor's. Day; Sitting earlier for his examination than -orig- ' inally intended, he entered Sandhurst, and obtained his commission. His father, Mr. B. G. Currie, is also on '• active servico in East Africa with tlio 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. In an obituary notice of Lieut. W. E. Balcombe-Brown, recently killed on ? active service in Flanders, tho London 0 "Times" of July 5 says:—"Second Lieu- ? tenant William Edward BalcombeBrown, R.F.A., agedl 22, killed by a " shell on . June 29, while observing for 0 his battecy, in Flanders, was the eldest 9 son of Mr. and Mrs. Balcombe-Brown, 1 of Wellington, New Zealand, and grandson of the Hon. Colonel W. H. D. Bail--0 lie, M.L.C.. formerly captain in tlie 0 24th Foot (now the South Wales Bor- " derers), one of the two surviving of- ? fleers who ' took part in. the historic battle of CJhillianwallah in 1849. Sec- ' olid Lieutenant Balcombe-Brown was 1 educated at the Collegiate School, War nganui, and entered- Oriel College, Ox--1 ford, in October, 1912. He obtained his , half-blue at Oxford' for boxing in 1914, r and Was for nearly'two years a member r of the Oxford O.T.C. Artillery Section. 5 Oil' the outbreak of war he was gazetted second lieutenant R.F.A. (Special Reserve), and later received a Regular commission. Since January lrist lie had been with his battery at the front."