PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. A. Hanau returned from luvercargill yesterday morning. He intends to visit Nelson and .Westland districts shortly. The Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who is recovering from his recent severe illness, will he in Wellington next week, when His Excellency Archbishop Cerretti, Papal Delegate, will arrive li9re. ( Dr. J. Allan Thomson and B. C. Aston have been appointed by tho Governor to lie members of the New Zea--1 land Institute. Mr. Malcolm Ross, the New Zealand war correspondent, who lias been rather seriously ill in Egypt lately, is now convalescent. Advice has been received by Mr. A. L. Wylic, Chief Inspector of Schools in the Southland district, that his' son, Captain T. W. Wylic, wlio is serving in France with the Royal Army Medical Corps, has been wounded. Capt?. : '<. Wylie, who is a young man of 27 years of ago, has served on the Western front for 16 months, and has been mentioned in dispatches. Major James Prendeville, of the 9th (Wellington-East Coast) Mounted Rifles, has been awarded the New Zealand long service medal, having served in the Now Zealand forces for a period of over 20 years. Dr. Putnam, of Palmerston North, iias left Melbourne by the R.M.S. Arabia for Egypt, where he will join the staff of the New Zealand General Hospital at Cairo. Mr. J. Caughley, recently appointed Assistant Director of Education, will eave Cliristchurck for Wellington on January 21 to take up the duties of his now position in Wellington on January 24. Mr. C. W. Jones, manager, of the Huddart-Parker Steamship Company, returned to Wellington from south yesterday. • The appointment of Mr. ' William Scott as employers' representative on the Arbitration Coui-t is gazetted. Mr. F. T. Davis, of Tauranga, has boen appointed commercial instructor at the New Plymouth Technical College. Advice has been received that Private Roy Richards, of the 6th Reinforcements, was killed at Gallipoli on November 20: Deceased, who was only 21 years of-, age, was a son of Mrs: F. Richards, Somerset Avenue, Newtown, and was formerly employed at the Newtown Cabinetmairing Works.. He was a well-known figure in Wellington hockey and Association football, circles:. Tho Rev. Canon Tukc, who has been vicar of St. Augustine's Church, Napier, for the past ..la years, made an archdeacon and appointed to the .district of. Tauranga. The Rev. Eric Rice, of Tauranga, succeeds him at Napier. Mr. Wynn Kirkby, eldest son of Mrs. A. V. .Kirkby, of New Plymouth, has just received a commission in the Imperial Navy. Almost since the outbreak of war he has been serving on one of the monitors which did such good work on the Belgian coast. Major P. J. .Wain,_ who was invalided to Englaud, after being wounded at t'he Dardanelles, and who three weeks ago was ordered a month's further leave by the British Medical Board, has just cabled to Mrs. Wain, "Riverlands," Waimate, informing her that he is progressing well, and that he has been awarded a first-class pass at' the School of Musketry 'at Hythe, England.. { The Rev. F. Stubbs, F.R.G.S., who has been fulfilling preaching engagements in the south,, returned to Auckland by the Victoria yesterday. Mr. R. G. C. Ffitch ; who for the past toyo years has been m : charge of the grain and - produce department of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, L'td. ; has resigned from the company's service, having accepted a similar position with Messrs. A. S. Paterson and Co. A Press Association message from Napier states: —Private Norman Steele reported missing and probably killed on August 7, has written to his mother in Napier that he is a prisoner of war in ■Constantinople., The letter is dated August) 8. The death is announced from Bluff of one of the old-time pioneers, Mr. Edward Bradshaw, in his 75th year. The arrived in the Dominion in 1860, and found employment at Marl- , borough. During his younger days Mr. uraashaw had ail adventurous career taking part' in the .Gabriel's Gully, West Coast, ,and_ other gold rushes, besides working his passage ahout New Zealand in coasting vessels. 'He had indifferent success on the goldfields, but later did fairly well with a claim at Urey. Mr. Bradshaw went to England • for a. holiday, going and returning to the Dominion in. the ship Star of Tasm i au ' a - .For many years he prospected at Braashaw's Creek <uid Bradsliaw's j lcrrace., Westporfc, and later at Pre-1 serration Inlet. When ho retired he settled at Bluff, residing there until his death. The deceased leaves a widow and a family of nine. Three Taihape hoys are reported to have been causing a sensation lateli. It is alleged that after committing a series* of thefts: in Taihape township, two of the boys • took two bicycles belonging to the Post and Telegraph Department, and proceeded to Mangawelca where they were arrested! hy Constable Esson. It was reported that the lads had a revolver and a dagger sheathkmfo in their possession, but when arrested no revolver could be found, but a.i ugly, sharp-edged instrument, not unlike a dagger, was picked up and claimed by one of the.lads as his property. III 'S e the young men who are still m New Zealand: and who are able to fight, to come along and show i. . e y , ale going to be cowards all their lives," writes a trooper of the Ota-go Mounted Rifles, who left with the Main Body. ''After the boys who are fighting here now retvrn tho shirkers will not get a look in. Every ablebodied single man. ought to be in the trenches, and it is a disgrace to tlio young fellows to see so many married men enlisting and coming to the front. When one looks into the trenches and sees so many married men it makes one wonder where all the single men are. When in hospital I' met an Australian about 48 years of age, who was doubled up with rheumatics and grey in the hair. He was a married man, and lie told mo that he only joined the colours to shame 6ome of the young fellows in the district he comes from. When a man of his age has to enlist to shame single men, it is time that conscrip. tion camo in."