PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2591, 13 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Robert Lee, ex-Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, returned to Jsew Zealand by the Turaltina (which arrived at Auckland on Saturday),.after being absent for about sixteen months on a holiday trip to the Old Country. Mr. Lee is expected to arrive from the north this'afternoon.

Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of tho Board of Directors of the Bank of Now Zealand, and head of the firm of W. M. Bannatyne aud Co., received a cablegram yesterday morning that his sod, Lieutenant Leslie Beauchamp, had beon killed in France. . The deceased officer, who was 21 years of age, only left Wellington for London on ■ Christinas Evo last by the ludrabarah, intending to apply at once for a commission in tho British Army. 'Within a fortnight after landing he had secured his commission in the Bth Battalion,of the South Lancashire Regiment. Ho studied hard, and whilst in training as an oflicor helped to train and get used to the command of men. It is not supposed that ho had been very long in tho firing-lino, and it/ is moro than probable that he met his death during the recent British advance on tho La Bassee-Loos lino, where the fighting has been of the severest character experienced during the , war. Lieutenant Beauchamp was a native of Wellington. He was educated at the Wellington Col- | lego and the Waitaki Boys' High School. Before leaving for England lie spent about two years in tho cashier's branch of \V. M. Bannatyne and Co. He war popular with all who knew him.

The death occurred at Dunedin yesterday afternoon of Mr. T. Cole, of the firm of Messrs. Colo and Springer, undertakers, aged 70 years. He was Mayor of Dunedin in 1910, and at the .time of bis death was a member of tha City Council. Hewas Mayor of Caversham on two occasions. Death was duo to apoplosy.—Press Association.

Trooper George Little, of the Seventh Mounted Reinforcements, son of Mr.Walter Little, of Takapau, has just been promoted to the rank of corporal.

Private B. Mitchell, of tho'machinegun section of the Australian Fourth Brigade, who arrived by the Moeraki on Monday evening, lost, an arni through! tho limb being shattered by an explo« sive bullet V?n. days after tie landing at Gaba Tcpe. He belongs to Oamarii, but was engaged in fanning in Australia when the call came. Other soldiers on board were Private Christie, 1 of Christehurcb, and Captain W. Sloan, an English officer, who is taking a health trip after being "gassed" in Flanders. _ The three officers . .of tho First Maori Contingent who returned by tho Moeraki were Captain Roger Dausey, Lieutenant Hiroti Tc Uru, of Wanganui, and Lieutenant' Halefc Thomas, of To Kuiti. . The twentyfivo wounded New Zealanders who arrived in Sydney last week are due here by tho Maitai to-day.

Captain and' Mrs. Mercer, of Wanganui, are at present staying at the Grand Hotel, preliminary to leaving for the Old Country, where Captain Mercer intends to rejoin liis old regiment.

Trooper Chas. Thompson, a member of the mounted section of the 3rd Reinforcements, died in Wellington on Monday. He was invalided back to New Zealand from Egypt, arriving here by tho Wimmera,. and had since been an inmate of Dunedin Hospital. He was""'on his way to Auckland in search of health, when he was again taken ill, and' succumbed suddenly to his sickness at the Victoria MilitaryHospital. He will be. buried to-day, with full military honours.

The Rev. J. G. Chapman and the ■Rov. J. H; mito, ' of tho Wellington (Taranalri Street) 'Methodist Circuit, have accepted unanimous invitations to remain for the sixth and fourth years respectively. . ' _ . tffo Rev. j: w. Smyth, a Presbyterian clergyman of South Ulster, Ireland, arrived in Auckland on Saturday by the Turakina. He comes on to Wellington shortly, and,intends to make bis home in New Zealand. He wa3 accompanied by his wife and family.

Mr. J. W. H. Scotland, tho New Zealand, aviator, who left tho Dominion somo weeks ago tindor engagement to the British Government, has arrived at his : destination—Bombay, India—all well. 1 According to a private letter received in Wellington ho was under ordors to leave for the Persian frontier.

The Rev. H. H. Robjohns, _ B.Sc., acting-secretary of the Bible-in-State Schools League of New Zealand, who has had very considerable experience in organising of all kinds in the Ola Country, has offered his services to the Minister of Defence to do any kind or organising work for the Defence Department-, particularly in connection! with a great recruiting campaign which it is suggested should be held. .

At the annual meeting of T-be Wellington Woolbrokers'/ Association, held on "Monday, Mr. A. F. Roberts, of. Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co'.,; Ltd., was elected chairman for the enstung year. ' ...

I Mr. J. H. Humphreys, secretary of tho Proportional Representation Society, which has its headquarters in London, •and of which Earl Grey is president, is at present in Wellington. He' has been touring Australia, in the interests of the society, and will 6pond a month in Near Zealand.

A Press Association message rfeceire3 from Sydney yesterday morning reooras from Sydney on Tuesday morning records the death of Mr. A. E. AYitherby, New Zealand' Representative' on tho Australasian Tennis Association.

Dr. M'Carthy, of Greytown, who has been accepted for war service, was farewelled by a number of his ineiias at the Foresters' Hnll, Greytown, on Monday. Complimentary references, were made to the doctor's patriotism in giving up his lucrative practice to go to tie front. *

Mr. H. P. Brown, who lias been indexing Hansard since Mr. Otterson'a retirement, ha! been permanently appointed to the staff.