PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2790, 7 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

f- \.. ~~ ■«._ A Pi-ess Association cablegram from V jOndan last night announced the retirei.aent of Sir Hartmann Just, after thirty, a ight years'- service in the Colonial Office. tr. 11. Lambert has been appointed sec•nitary to the Imperial Conference. (Kir Bartmann Just was Assistant Under-Secre-tory of State for the Colonies, and Sec-v iWtary to the .Imperial Conference.) " ' rhe Bishop of Salisbury, has appointed to- , the newly-formffd Archdeaconry of Sliortiot ne the Right Rev. Frederic Wallis, sometime Bisliop of AVellington, New Z Ew'and. Bishop "Wallis was before 1119 c< msecration examining chaplain "to Bishop "\\ Ihj'dsworth aud is Honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedtal. The new Archdeacon will reside at Shccbornc and will devoid himself to the work of the Arch-< dea'pe-nry. jjldJ or F. Waite, D.5.0., who returned from. England in charge of the Athonic's drai'J ,of soldiers yesterday, left here with the it lai u Body, and was wounded on llay- 2 of last year at Dead Han's flirlgo (Gall where his actions earned for him : tl*2 D.5.0., which was personally beon him by the King at Buckingham ilnca on his arrival in England. He antidpj ites a quick return to the front. ' Jlajoi; Waite was at one timo tm> tho staff . ofe tho "Otago Witness," and later he ivoiirt on the land, and was there wlion the w broke out. A p riwato cablegram from Sydney announce, k the death of Mr. William Arthur WaddelU-' a well-known resident of Wellington. ' Wr. Waddcll -was born at Bathgate Siioi ;land, and arrived in Melbourne in 18C2. • Shortly afterwards he came to New Zocltand. About 1865 he came lo Woiihintu l *, and in 1872, with Mr.'William Weir ait.il the late Mr. Archibald Jl/Leod, established the business of- Waddell, M'Leod \ ani l Weir; timber merchants and sawmiliei-ji. Owing to failing health, he retired ivtou\t eleven years ago, disposing 1 of his feitierast to ilr.-William Hopkirk. At- <im» d ime he was a prominent member of St. J Church. He was one o£ the origi nial members of the vv«llingtoa Bowling -oS*'&■ News -ibaa. l>een. received that Charles Laiug, son of Mr. iLontaguo, Laing, managing, director fit Messrs S 'argood, Sou, aim JSweii, iitu., fxmdon, n nd brother of llr. James Laing, af Messrs. W. and G. Turnbiill and Co., lias been''awarded the Military Cross tor valour sttiwTi "t Capo Helles, before the 'Jallipoli evacuation. Lieut. Laing was jducated mthe recraco bchool, A\ ellingj ton, and til :. George's College, AVeybndge, lingland. liobtained Some notoriety in the rowing" world as a member of the Kingston Eifc «, which. rowed at Henley, and has won... over 42 cups while following his favourite. iWsbTne. At the time of his enlistment in. the Eojal Scote rusiliers he was emploji Q d in Messrs. Dalgetj and Co/s London i xouse.

-Major 5 • Hall-Jones, who returned froui°England W „ tlle h a son of Sir Wi. Umm Hall-Jones. Be. R. 0. Brii 'g mal1 > Australian Forces, rcturund; /""J' linglond on bis way to Australia hy Athenic. Archbishop hea, of Wellington, is visiting Napier. Mr. C. Crawf.ta ' (1 . Tort Ahuriri v branch of th 4 V a =" um . Company, has been promoted tu the position of manager of the company's! branch at Timaru. Lieut. P. J. Gu ttou left New Zealand as a trooper and t eturned l.y the Athcnic as a eommiesi< >r '. ecl S..angely enough, Lieut. P.f \'P * sufill f performance in.lihP South paign, leaving as » private a.ii as a captain on th .at, °"«=' J- 1 - . wounded four times, a *L ,{£ }'iV?. i'„ been immensely be uefited 111 health bj ICin" .61' the Auckland staff of tie Mutual Life .North district.. . Mr E. G. Whettei;, • M.A., inspector of schools for Taranaki, 1 i has received nohco that ho will shortly V 'transferred ta Napier. in the Hawke's B ay Education to 'sergeant J. B. Radcli fl e of the 3rd Rifle Brigade, and son of Mi 6. ■ EadciifEe, Ngaio, was killed in action o ti May «>■ Bef°ro his enlistement ho was the .staff of tlio Alliance Assurance Col E n nll > r -