PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieut.-Colonel R. Hoaton Rhodes, , .P., left by the Moeraki yesterday for t'dney en route to Egypt, where ho is ■ inquire into certain matters connect- ■] I with the administration at tho New s 3aland base at Alexandria. He was icoinpanied by his secretary, Mr.. W. 1 row, Mr. R. Triggs, Assistant Public Ser:ce Commissioner, who lias been under le doctor's care for some weeks past, now able to visit his office for an nour uring tho warmest part of the day when 10 weather is fair. . •' Surgeon-General Henderson,-R.A.M.C., as arrived in Sydney, and he ,will reach cw Zealand on September 7 nest by. le Manuka. Prince Ranjitsinhji, one of Sir John reneli's aides-de-camp, ,who had just ' cturned on short leave from the front,. t r as shot in the face while grouse- shootig in Yorkshire. He is in hospital, but is conditdon, is not serious. _ The 'rince's eyes aro injured, and it is posible that one may be blinded. —Press Lssociation. • Mr. John Mainland retired from tho lamaru Hospital Trustees yestei'day fter 44 yeais service.. A presentation f an illuminated address and a purse of . overeigns was mada to him. —Press Asociation. Mr. F. S. Thomas, of Hastings, who ras recently married, has teen the reipient of a solid silver fish service from he members of the Hastings Orchestral society. Among tho well-known volunteers rom tlie Hawke's Bay district recently •eported among : tho killed and wounded ire Lieut. Von Kettle (killed), of Nailer, who joined the Samoan Forces as i private, was promoted to sergeant and mbsequently received a commission in ho 4th Reinforcements; Lance-Corporal \Y. R. C-ammock (wounded), who was a, ;eachor at the Hastings District High school. Messrs. F. R. Hodge and N. Wallace, >f the "Hawke's Bay .Herald" reporting staff, have been notified of their, appointnont as members of the non-commission->d class for the 9tli Reinforcements. Mr. Walter E. Barber, of Foxton, has jeen appointed a member of the Assess-. ment Court under the Valuation of Land Act. ' Mr. Arthur C. Philpott has been appointed Registrar of Brands for the Patea, Rangitikei, and Waimarino districts. Mr. H. V. Hoadley has been appointsd a member of the Napier Licensing Committee, vice Mr. H. J. Holder. . The Rev. W- G. Slade, of the Methodist Church .of New Zealand, has been ;;aaetted an officiating minister under the Marriage Act. . ■ A cablegram has been received by Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., from his son, Lieutenant Harold Jennings, of the Imperial Royal Field Artillery Force, stating that he was to leave 1 England today, and that his brother, Sergeant Jennings, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is in hospital at Maltay suffering from enteric. Mr. Jennings's other son, Edgar, was recently killed in the trenches in Gallipoli by a bomb thrown from.;ono of the. Turkish trenches. Mr. Alfred East-, who was assistant master at the Clyde Quay School, and who went to the front with the Ambulance section of the Main Expeditionary Force, has been severely wounded in the head, and is now. in a hospital at Malta. Mr. East is a ton of Mr. J. East, of Gladstone Road, Gisborire. News has reached Wellington that Lieut. R. H. Marryatt, of the Worcestershire Regiment, was on© of tho uufortunates who suffered frcm tho effects of poisonous gas emitted from the Ger-. man trenches in Flanders. Lieut. Mar-' ryatt was at one timo in tho employ of Bray Bros., of.. Invercargill, and later established himself in Wellington as a manufacturers' agent He was a member of tho Royal Wellington Choral Society when here. The latest report stated that lie. was making satisfactory progress towards reco.-ery. Private John S. Taylor, who left with the South Canterbury Infantry (Main Body), is reported to,have been wounded. Privte Taylor formerly worked as a dyer with his fathor on Lambton Quay and Pambridgo Terrace, but was in business in Grevmouth on his own account when he enlisted. He is a brother of Mr. Bert Taylor, dyer and cleanor, of Cambridge Terracc. R-ospect to the memory of three former members of the Wellington, City Corporation staff was paid by the City Council last evening. The Mayor mentioned .that Messrs. Robieson, Winder, and L. Bridge had fallen at the Dardanelles, and said that-while they deplored the. loss of these citizens they appreciated their bravery and patriotio service, and sympathised with those on whom the loss fell most heavily. Mr. James M. Nicholls, of Carterton, left for Sydney by tho Mooraki last evening, where" ho will purchase, on bohalf of a Now Zealand .syndicate, a selection of fancy pigeons. Captain E. Shaw, of Wellington, lias received word that his son, Private B. G. Shaw, who-left with, the Main Australian Forces, has been wounded in the recent- fighting at Galiipoli. Before leaving for Australia he was on the staff of Messrs. E. W. Mills; and Co., Wellington, and was also a member of tho AVcllington Rowing Club. News has been received of the doath at the Dardanelles of Trooper E. R. Armstrong, formerly of Wellington, second'son. of-Mr." J, E. Armstrong, railway traffic manager at Wanganui. This is the second son of Jlr. Armstrong who has laid down his life for his country. Constable George Johnston, of Wellington, has been advised by tho Australian Defence Department that his brother, Pte. John Johnston, who was 'formerly in the Police Force of New l(illix| ijv, atiliptt ftt tlia