PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2778, 24 May 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

[VICE-REGJIL.] , Their Excellencies\the Earl and Countess of Liverpool, who had been troutnshing iu the Rotorua district, returned to Wellington yesterday morning,' accompanied by Mr. Helniore, A.D.C. Mr. Gavin Hamilton, private senietary to tho Governor, remained at Rotorua. ' A Eross Association 'cablegram from London last evening announced that I.ieut. John Stewart Richardson, Coldstream Guards, a resident, of Hawko's Bay, had been killed in action. ■ Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, wbo has been visiting tho Auckland diocese during the past fortnight to administer Lonfirination (in the absonee of tho Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr. H. W. Cleary) has gone oil to Gisborne,: where he will conduct a Confirmation servioe. He will teturn to 'Wellington by way of Napier. Cabled information states that Captain Francis Egmout Gano has been reported killed in action on May "14. Ho was tho third soil of Mr. and-Mrs. F. J. G&ne, ,of Normanby, and' before joining the Canadian Expeditionary Forces was pre. minen't in university life in Canada. Ho was born in Normanby. thirty-one-years ago, and his parents are very old settlers of the Normanby district. The sudden death of Mr. Chartes Saville Broome, who for seventeen years was resident in Wellington as a member of the staff of the New Zealand Government Insurance Department, is announced in. the Tunbridge Wells "Courier" of April 7: The deceased gentleman, who was seventyone years of age, was a sou of the late ■Rev. I'. Broome,. Rector of Renley, Salop, 33ngland, and, entered the Navy at nn early age, retiring with the rank of lio'u-tenant-coiiimander. His eldest brother was the late Sir Frederick Napier Broome, formerly Governor of Western Australia, after whom' the port of Broome is named. On May 24, 1852, the ship Tory sailed from Wellington for tho Victorian gold fields 'with 130 passengers. The only one now living of that party is tho well knoyn old identity Mr. J. Brown, of the Upper Hutt. 1 '

Mr. Leo du Chateau, representing the "Pink Dandies," arrived from Sydney bjp the Kivsrina on. Monday. The "Dandies' Bra nfcout to tour New Zealand. . Professor Berry, professor of anatomy at the AdoLiido 'University, was a passenger from Sydney by the liiverina on Monday. / ' . ' . Private advice hos been received that Dr. j Martindale Kendall, of Wellington, has been appointed to the command of No. 29 Ambulance Train in France. Mr. G. P. 0. Campbell has been nomi-nated-by the Wellington B.ugby Union for. the position of vice-president of the N.Z.B.U. ■ I v he late Mr. Thomas Tallott, who died on I'riday at' his\, daughter's Residence, St. Albans, born on Juno 4, li&li, on ' the Duke of Marlborough's estate, Blonheim, where his father 1 was steward of the estate. Li 1860 he landed at Port' Chalmers by the Oscar. Mr. P. master .of- the Antarctic exploring vessel Endurance, whoso absence'is causing -anxiety, has many iiiends in New Zealand, where he has spent some time on visits. The first officer. of the'vessel is Mr. Greenstreet, 6011 of Captain Greenstreet of the Kemuera. Private advice has been received that Lieut-Col. W. J. Glasgow, of tho- Eoyal West Surrey .Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-Generfil. He is an. old boy of Nelson College, and .was one of the first threo New Zealand- . ets to qualify for Sandhurst. Lieut.-CoU A. E. Glasgow is a younger brother of the Brigadier-General.. 'l'ho Auckland police officer, Constable .John Neil, who was severely wounded .with pellets from a shotgun on tho occasion of the arrest of tho "prophet" Eua ton April 2 last, left the Rotorua. Hospital on Saturday. He is now quartered at the police barracks, Auckland, but it is' not expected that ho will be fit for duty, for .many weeks. Ho 'will,' however, be able to appear iii the Supreme Coux-t during Rua's trial. ' ■ ■' : ■Th e that Mr. J.' Gordon Coates, M.P. for ICaipara, has been provisionally appointed captain in the Nineteenth. Reinforcements, and proceeds to camp shortly prior to going to ,the front, was made the subject of reference by members of the Waitemata County Council on Saturday last at the opening of the'new AVaimauku Bridge. Allusion to the good work Mr. Coates had done while member for .the district'was also made. A marble tablet on'tho bridge was unveiled, bearing the following inscription: "The official opening of this bridge was the occasion of the farewell visit to the district : of Captain J. G. Coates, M.P., prior to ;his departure from New ..Zealand to take jpart in the great world-war.".

Mr. A. P. Graham, of the Otago Hospital clerical staff,'secretary of the Choral .Society, and a member of the Otago Crip, ket Association, has been .appointed secretary of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

Lieut. Nicol Morpeth, late of the Sixth Hauraki. Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of captain, and is now second-in-command of the 16th Waikatos. Other promotions announced are those of Seret Allan Cooper, of Waihi, and Sergt. Tilsley. both of the-Second Battalion, Gth 'Jiaurakis, to be lieutenants. -Tils- • f'\, » r ad Pi'oviouslv; been awanfed the 0) C.JI. Sergt.-Major. Walker and Sergt. Major Gaspanch,. First Battalion, Auckland Infantry and 16th Waikatos, reaper timely, liaye also received commissions. At yesterday s meeting of delegate*? if •tonduw the'liw Zealand Dental Conference, Mr. A M. Carter (Auckland) w„ s elected president, Captain M. C. Dennlstou vice-president, Lieut - Colonel Hunter chairman of the executive retary^° r -Vickerill (Dimedin)' seel

Mr. E. b Jennings, accountant, who has practised at Taihape for soihe vears » Jn- camp with the 17th n.c.o.'s. : *