PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Chaplain' Captain Garner, of the SaYvation Army Institute, Trentham, has returned after a furlough in Australia. The captain was a keen observer '! a!l. thiiics in connection with cauip nuatera while in Sydney and Melbourne. Dr. Teichelman, of Greyniouth, who is proceeding to Egypt* on military service, was in Wellington yesterday. A private cable message received in Wellington states that Mr. Laurence Marchant, youngest son of Mr. J. W. A.Marchant. ex-Survoyor-General, has received a commission in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. : Mr. Marchant, who was born and educated in l Wellington, was in.the Expeditionary Force in Samoa, and on returning he joined the Ocean Accident Insurance Co's Staff in this city. He loft Wellington for London by the Turakina oil June 15. Staff-Captain Walls, who was in; charge of the work at Trentham during the absence of Chaplain Captain Garner, has been gazetted as chaplain, and is at present engaged at Tauherinikau,. where ; the Salvation Army authorities are erecting a permanent institute similar to that in use at Trentham. . The following are the names, as far as it has been- possible to ascertain them, of members of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand wliq have enlisted: —H. A. Cunningham, J. Foster,' T.'H. Jones, C. H, Matthews. W. M'Kay, J. H. W. Shoppard, J. W. Smeaton, H. W. Thompson, and H. A". Webster. It is possible there are others. .. Mr. C. A. Brigg's, general manager of E.-.W. Mills and Co., Ltd., left by olia UJiiuaroa yesterday, en route for America, via Java, China, and Japan, and expects to be absent from the Dominion for' about six months. Mr. C. Bridge, of the A.M.?. staff, and well known in rowing, boxing, and athletic circles, and Mr. L. Bridge, of Odlin and Co.'s staff, go into camp as probationary non-commissioned officers on September 7. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration has been awarded Mar jor A. J. Petherick, Now Zealand Field Artillery; and the long-service medal has been awarded to Captain J. A« Algie. 1 On' Wednesday night Mr. C. M. lunes, editor of the "Rotorua Times," who is joining the "Auckland "Herald," and Mrs. lnnes were entertained at a large-ly-attended representative "social." Mr., limes .was presented with a- purse of. sovereigns and an illuminated address.—■ Press Association. Miss Thompson, .of Sydney,-treasurer! for Mr. Graham Moffat, has been advised. by cablegram that her -brother!'. who is a member .of the Australian Forces now ,at the front, has been wounded, and, it is feared, mortally. . Mr. and Mrs. Scott Colville, of ; Sydney, are staying at tho Albert Hotel. - At the meeting of the Council of ilie New Zealand Tennis Association en Wednesday evening a vote of sympathy and condolence was passed to the rs'atires' of the late Mr. L. G:' Mackajv References were made by tlto good: service rendered to' the late Mr. Maokoy. Tho motion was carried in the . members standing.' Mr. Charles Zachariah's appointment as Official Assignee for Otago and South-, land, is gazetted. Mi-. Edjiin T. Norris, M.A., who has been -Registrar of the Victoria College for soine years past, , and . who was recently appointed Registrar of the Noiv Zealand University, took over the full duties of that office on Wednesday, duties which he had practically been fulfill* inc for the past two months, whilst still acting for the college. Mr.. G. G. ' S. Robison. M.A., formerly 'an assist-ant-master at Wellington ,College, touk over the duties of Registrar of i r icloria College on Wednesday. ' Mr. Arthur Paapp, organiser for .the Reform Party, left oil' a trip to Sydney;. bv the Ulimaroa yesterday evening. Ho will be absent for about a month or six weeks. ". , . . Commissioner Hodder has instructed Chaplain-Captain Gray, of Auckland, to fareivcjl from his present position, and to proceed to Tauhcrenikau ,to take charge of tho Salvation Army Institute there. A cablegram was recently received by, Mrs. Burn, of Hereford Street, Ohristchurch, from the Viceroy of India, statingl'that her youngest son, Lieut. William Wallace 1 Allison _ Burn, whrf was itf the Australasian division of the Royal . Flying Corps, and who, was attached to the Indian Army operating in Asia Minor, had been missing since August 3. It was reported that the aeroplane in which Lieut. Bum and his observer, who was named Merz, had been reconnoitring, had been found, find that it had been damaged by Arabs, but there were no traces of Lieut. Burn and his observer. According to the Cliristchurcli "Sun,'.' further advices now that Lieut. Burn and his observer had been attacked by Marsh Arabs near the Euphrates • River, and both mon were killed. The late Lieut. Burn was an old bov of tho Christclmrch Boys'High School, and was well known in Cliristchurcli as a Rugby.football player and oarsman. After, lie joined tho New Zealand Staff Corps bo was sent to England for two years' military'trammg. There he studied aviation, and secured an Army pilot's certificate. In consequence of a special request for his services lie left Now Zealand for India last Easter, and from thoro was sent to the Persian Gulf. There passed away at Glencoe a few 1 days ago a very old and respected resident of tho district in the person of Mr. John M'Donald (says the("'Southland News"). The late Mr. M'Donald was born 87 years ago in the County, of Inverness, Isle of Skye. In his early days he followed a seafaring life, and came to New Zealand in 1859 as a sailor on the immigrant ship Gaua. Hia first work in this'count-ry was shepherding ou tho Taieri, at Maungatua, and lie was there at the time of Garret, tho bushranger, who tied up fifteen men ill one day. Ho went to Southland about 1862. One of his sons is serving (lis country at the Dardanelles, and i/ord has just |icon received that he has been wounded. Many expressions of appreciation fol 1 Chaplain-Oaptain Grieve's work among, the wounded in Egypt are continually beinc received at the Saljation Army headquarters. His work is iery. high" ly spoken of. . '