PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2729, 25 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. Allen, Minister of Defence, goes to Feildiiig to-day to ad~dress a recruiting meeting. He will return to Wellington by the Main Trunk train on Sunday morning. 1 The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward re-tw-ns;to. Wellington this morning. The Hon. J. A. Hanan left for the . south last night. • Mr. W. R. Morris, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, has gone to Christ-church on Departmental Business. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, with full military honours, of Private George Gustaf Frederick Jagerhoru, who died in Victoria Hospital on Wednesday. Deceased returned from the front by the Willochra last year, and afterwards rejoined tho Reinforcements at Trontham. Subsequently he was invalided to Wellington Hospital. The funeral, wliioh left Wilson's mortuary chapel in Adelaide Road, was , attended .by deceased's father, from Eketahuna; Captain A. M. M'Diamid, of the I3th Reinforcements, representing the Defence Department, and a large number of returned soldiers. The Trentham Camp 'Band was in attendance, and a firingparty also came from tho camp. Colonel Tracy, Anglican chaplain at Trentham,- conducted tlie service. The ! late ■ Trooper' George Jagerhorn tame of a fighting stock His father, >ho. was oiie of the Swedish immigrants who arrived in New Zealand in the parly seventies, was the son of a Swedish officer.- One of his distant relatives was a distinguished officer under Napoleon's Field-Marshal' Bernadotti, who afterwards became King of Sweden. Mr. John Rutherfurd, whose death at Hamilton at. the age of 81 occurred this week, was for forty years a resi-. dent of the Wairarapa. He afterwards lived at Aramoho. .Before coming to New Zealand he was in the Navy. He was a member of the Wellington Branoh of the Navy League. V The Very Rev. Dean Regnault, S.M., who for the past year has been Administrator of the Thorndon Parish, left last evening for Christchurch, whore ho will take charge of St. Mary's Parish, l-'ii ' Thursday. evening a numbor of the leading Roman Catholics of Thorndon. bade him good-bye at the presbytery (Colonel Collins, C.M.G., presiding),

and. expressed their high appreciation, " of the whole-souled manner ,in which he had devoted his attention to the ' needs of the parish, and tlio hope.that in his new sphere of work ha would achieve equally successful results. In replying, Dean Regnault said lie was sorry to have to leave a parish where, from the beginning, he had mot with • o warm welcome and ready help from

those who took a keen interest ill its affairs, and he wished Thorndon every success and prosperity. •, A Press Association message from London records the death of Mr. J. A. Mason, a well-known » official of the New Zealand High . 'Commissioner's Oilica.. ,Mr. Mason .. waß not a New

Zealander, but wa3 at ono time' privato secretary to Mr. W. P; Reeves when iio was High Commissioner,

' At a conference held at Palmersion North to eleot two delegates from the Wellington district to the Patriotic 'Advisory Board, Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp (Wellington), and Sir. Hope Gibbons (Wanganui) were chosen.—Press Asso : ciutioti.

Captain W. H. Johnston, son of Mr. U. Johnston, of Karori Road, who went to France with the R.A.M.O. First Expeditionary Force, has been appointed specialist in surgery to No. 1 General Hospital (Etretat) .'

Major A. A; Corrigan, commanding ..tho Wellington, Military Group, is visiting Palmerston North. .

■ Mr; 0. A. Barton, clerk of the Court, Auckland, ic about to retire after 40 years' service. Prior to his retirement he has been granted, three months' leave of absence. Mr. Barton has been in New Zealand since 1865, when he arrived in the ship Andrew Jackson. At ;that time he was in his third year, being born in Birmingham in 1862. Mr. Barton joined the Civil Service on December 1, 1875, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hokitika. 'In 1883 lie was appointed clerk of the Court and mining registrar at Lyell and Hampden, now tailed. Murchison, in the, Nelson South goldfields. He Was. transferred to ■Arnold, in tlie Gray Valley, in 1884, And then to Ross, where lie stayed until 1889. Returning to Hokitika, he became clerk of the Magistrate's District and Warden's Court'; and he was also 'deputy-registrar, of the Supreme: Court. In 1900 Mr. Barton was appointed to Wanganui, and, in 1913, to the post .Which lie is just vacating.

The Camp Commandant at Trcntham announces in routine' orders the death of Pte. F. G. Smith, C Company, '12th R-emforcements, who died of appendicitis in a private hospital, Ghristchu'rch, on March 17.

. Mr. E. H. Williams, of Hastings, was yesterday appointed to represent Hawke's Bay oil the Advisory Board of the Federation of New Zealand Patriotic War Relief Societies.

As a Finance Minister of modern experience, Sir Joseph Ward confessed at the Old Colonists' Museum gathering in Auckland that ho was struck by tho smalluess of the figures contained in the first Financial Statement. delivered in New Zeakmd, which is one of the museum exhibits. As evidence of the strenuous financial difficulties under which the early pioneers bad to work, he. noted the fact that in Governor Kit-zroy's day paper notes down to the value of threepenco were issued by private firms against their assets. These botes were guaranteed by 'the State, and when they reached the total of ss. the holder was able to present them and receive a debenture in return.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Hornblow, of Ma» Sgawcka, who are leaving for DargaVille, where Mr. Hornblow has acquired tho North Auckland "Times," were publicly farewelled on Thursday night. The Hon. Dr. M'Nab was among tho speakers. Mr.; Hornblow was presented, with an illuminated address, and Mrs. Hornblow with a solid silver casket filled with sovereigns. The latter intends staying in Wellington for a littlo time before'proceeding north. • In a letter to his parents from the' ' front, Private J. Woodhouse, of Christchurch, gives tho following description of the fight which took place in Western Egypt on Christmas Day :—"I can hon- ■ ostly say how that I have been under fire. Wo started out at half-past four one morning, and got into tho firing line about half-past seven. I can toil you that we were very tired when we got there, as'< it was very rough country we had to travel across. We had the Indians with us. Tliey formed the first column, and I never wish to see a finer and a braver lot than- those Indians. ■ They walked into the firing line with bullets Hying around them as if they, were going out to shoot rabbits for breakfast or tca ; Wo had jio sooner got over the first -vidgc where the enemy was than one o 5 ray mates was slightly wounded in t-lio leg. It was a funny sensation for tho first time. Where I was lying bullets wero whistling around everywhere. I put my arm rcnnd in front of my face, expecting to get hit in the face at any moment, Mho enemy set out to retreat right from tho very start. We drove them back and back, and they made their last stand in a gully miles back. When wo got to tho gully it was hot, and it was a miracle that there were not more wounded and killed than there wore. Tho mounted men came up on the left, and tho rest of our man on tho right. That's when we peppered bullets into them, which made them go for their lives. That ended our first day's experience in tho fir ins line,' 4