PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

» 'The Hon. G. W. Russell left for _ -Christchurch last night. ; <1 ■ Private Walter C. Riley, who was re-. ■.' ■' : ported killed >. in action at ; the Darda- • ,nelles on. August' B,'was born in 'Col-- ' Jingwood '-and educated at Nelson .Gol-. '-"lege; He."Joined- r tho-'firm of-.Messrs;-Ross and Glcndining, and was for a number of years employed in the Wei- , -"slihgtonibranch,'; during which time' ho i v >■' was a prominent member of tho "Wei-■ Club team. lie was ; ' transferred to Napier, arid later-resign-ed to take up business in Auckland, irom - whoro - nojoined'the'"sth.,..Reinforcements. : ,-vit is'-interesting -fo' recan the-, fact, -• that, tbolato Mr. It; ;E.'N. .Twopeny, Svhoso death was recorded in yesterday's cabled news, . was, if we' remember rightly, -originally associated • with a ■»'r;; - -prw%i»tiP'i!jinediftX'A^'?^i?®?,'-W --rthe v; capacity of -editor;^' 0 ;Shbsequbntly,,- in -. conjunction with ;Mr. Joubert, ho undertook :.tlie ''Organisation,.and .conduct . v of-, tho. first really;; -. big. exhibition; - in v Christchurch—a remarkable enterprise vfor a quite young:man,.as Mr: Twopeny . T then At tbo tims ofj his .death,-. Mr.R. E.,N., Twopeny was a half-pro- ; prictpr of that well' known and success- ; i'ul journal "The Pastoral Review," the , ' other • partner . being Captain - A. W. . .; . :Pearse, of- Sydney;, For "some wliile , past, "however, tho late Mr. Twopeny had not actively participated in tho . management. of tbo business. . That . : gentleman,; it might'be remarked, was - v not; only a~ man of'scholarly attainment,: . but was fortunate in tbo' possession of qualities which caused him to 'bo highly : ;; regarded-by"-a.very-.''.'.great," number of. ■ friends, throughout Australasia.- It is .., with regret that the.v will have observed V ; "the,announcement.of his death.' A few years back Mr. R. E. N. Twopeny left - Melbourne and went to England, -where he has resided up till now. \ - - ' Lieut. Ferdinand von Tempsky ■ Kottlo, who is reported as having been killed in action, in the casualtylist published'.this morning, is a,-son of Mr: :N. Kettle, of Messrs. Williams and - ' Kettle, Napier. Ho .was' well known iiv -Napier; and oh the outbreak of war yolunteered -for service abroad ; _ boiiig • a member of the Samoan-Expeditionary ; Force. Ho returned from Samoa after ■! . -ia few...months and obtained a; commis- ' ' Bion in tho Wellington Mounted Rifles iu one-of the'Reinforcements;-\ Constable Shannon, well blown oil \ tho waterfront at Wellington, is under orders to -transfer to. Otira. \Ho .'will . :leave for his'new 6phere.of action to- "i day by the Mapourika. .Constable Shannon was presented by. his confreres j w-ith a case, of pipes, -jug.'and other ar-, tides. ■ ■■■ i .- A. Press 'Association telegram . from , Sydijey states that Professor M'Millan ; ' • Brown is-a passenger by the Manuka. > Advico has' been received in, AVelling- i ; ton; that Colonel ,E. W. C. Chaytor, C.JJ.j Adjutant-General to the New Zea- ' ■laud: Expeditionary Force,- who was i -wounded at tlici Dardanelles'., and was in- ; valided to England,- returned to tho .' front'last Saturday. ' * ■'■; : ■ , A;, Press Association telegram from v iWhingarei states. that word , has been . received from Colonel Mackcsy; at the - Dardanelles, whose letter-ou recruiting'-' : was- recently the. subject of' widespread ;;'interest , in. the Dominion,, that his son, Captain Charles Mackesy,; had been ; . wouhded-on August 9, and another son,: ■ Harry, was killed. The Mackesys aro of a : figliting-Irish family, their ancestors bav-' ' :-ing served in .the. British Army, in the 1 ■Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and. the Penin- : sula War. Colonel Ma'ckesy's 'grand- 1 ■ father was Rector of Tipperary. A .Press Association message from ; . Sydney states that the Rev. J. Dawson, President of tho Methodist Conference, ' V is a passenger to Auckland . by . tho - \ steamer Niagara. - . - Lioutenant W. E: Earnshaw, of tho ' D Battery, Wellington, who has been :in the- employ of Messrs. Fairbairn, '. Wright and Co., for the past,nine years, : - was the recipient of parting-; gifes from ! his felloiv-employces and tho local man- ;- ager (Mr. Kenny) yesterday. - Lieutcn- i ant Earhshaw's services' have been ac- ■ cepted for the Ninth' Contingent. He goes into camp at\ Trentham on Mon- ; . day. - -: - . Mr. F. L. Armitage, of Auckland, has , ; received an appointment as bacteriolo- 1 gist to the New Zeaalnd Forces in Egypt, and ho leaves for .Wellington, 1 cn route to Egypt,. almost immediately. 1 ■■ A-private cable messago received in. . Wellington yesterday morning states . that Sergeant H. W. Thompson, of Wellington '(wounded),' is nbw' in Betli-nalv-Green Hospital, London, .and is 'doing.well. - ' ...