PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2582, 2 October 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour tho Chief. Justico (Sir Robert Stout) is indisposed. ' Yesterday he ivns unable to attend the Court of Appeal. ■ ; . . A Press Association message from Sydney states that-tho Right Rov. Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, arid the: Rev. Father Keogh, aro passengers by . the >^Malrurn. for Auck■iand. ..'The Bishop l underwent two very serious operations during his stay in Sydney, and nows of the fact that he is- ablo. to travel will be received with tho greatest plensuro' by a very .largo' number of friends; Mr. C. Holdsworth, managing director of the Union Company, was a passenger from Wellington to Sydney by tho Manuka last evening/ ' Tho Rov. J. Gibson Smith, of Wellington,', hajs been nominated by the Presbytery of Hawke's Bay as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.—Press Association. . ' '■ '■ '!

Mr. G. C. Paterson, of the Postal Department, Wellington, has just - received news of tho death of his youngest brother, aged 18 years, who was killed in action in Flanders. Deceased left for tho front in-May last, and was serving with his regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, at the timo of his death., v The Mayor (Mr. J. . P.. Luke) and-tho City Engineer (Mr. W.. H.. Morton) have been asked to officiato as judges at;tho Labour Day sports on October 25. The request will bo acceded to.' Mr. John Fuller, junr.,' was a passenger to Sydney; by the Manuka last oveniug. . ' .

Advico was received from tho Minister of Defence on Wednesday by Mr. C. Leeming, of the Christ-church Telegraph Department, that his oldest son, Captain C. V. Leeming, of the 3rd Battery of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forco, Maiii Body, had disembarked at Malta on September 1, sick. Captain Leeming was ono of the first to enlist when the call earner . Ho left wit'Ji tho Main Body, acting ,as transport- officer between Alexandria,and the Dardanelles up to July 2, and witnessed the historic landing on. April 25. Ho rejoined' his battery on July 3, sinco l when he has been in the thick of the fray, several- of-those associated with his battery, having been wounded or-filled. So far, the nature of Captain Leeming's. illness has not been ascertained.

Lieutenant Philip Uren, son of Mr. P. Uren, of Parnell, who left New Zealand as a trcoper with the 11th, North Auckjand,; Mounted Rifles, and _ was later promoted,~is now lieutenant in the Ist Lancashire Fusiliers, 86th Brigade, of- the'famous 29th -Division, which was .recently, badly cut' up' in tho_ Dardanelles fighting.'. : Writing to his father on August 9, Lieutenant Uren said he was . well, though lie had lost sixteen of his men by the explosion of one shell. By the. death of, Mr. Robert Hardie, which occurred on, Wednesday, the Dominion loses one of its/ oldest public men (says the Christchurch "Press"), for it is fifty years since Mr. Hardio camo to New Zealand.. : The late Mr. Hardie was a native of Aj'rshire, Scotland,,and was brought up as an accountant in Glasgow, arriving in- Auckland in 1865. He was for nine years in the North Island, and lin 1874 removed to Christchurch. . .": Mr. D. Hewitt, of the firm of Davidson and .Co.,' left for Sydney by the Manuka last evening.,