PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. W. Fraser, who lias just returned from Rotorua, leaves agaiu for Auckland to-day to visit more local bodies. He will be absent for about fiireo weeks, returning via Gisborne and Napier. Captain Sir Robert Walker, Coldstream Guards, 'has been granted a month's sick leave. Sir Robert and Lady Walker aro leaving Wellington immediately for Auckland. Tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald will arrive in Wellington this morning from his tour of the middle of the North Island. He visited Mamaku in connection with bush sickness there, and also Rotorua, Taupo, and Ruakura Farm. Cablo advico from London advises the 6afo arrival of the Y.M.C.A. New Zealand Special Commissioners in England, Messrs. W. G. Jamieson, chairman, of Christchurch; H. M. Smeeton, of Auckland, and A. H. Varney, special secretary, of Wellington. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch announces the death' of Mr. Archibald Wilkin, third Gon of the late James Clunie Wilkin, for many yearß manager of the "Lyttelton Times" Company. The late Mr. Wilkin had charge off the process department of the '"Lyttelton Times" for several years. He enlisted for service.but a few days later caught a' chill which developed into pneumonin. Archdeacon (Dr.) Batchelor, who has been engaged in missionary work in Hokkaido, Japan, for forty years, and is spending a long furlough in New Zealand, is at present a visitor to Wellington. Major H. H. Wright, Director of Supply and Transport, will leave with! the Seventeenth Reinforcements as officer commanding that Reinforcement. Captain Braddell, N.Z. Staff Corps, will also go to the front with tha Seventeenths as staff officer. Mr. Arthur M'Carthy, of Napior, > who is.accompanied by Mrs. M'Carthy, is at present staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M'Carthy will • leave for Nelson to-day. Lieut.-Colonel M'lnnes, the newlyappointed chief secretary for the Salvation Army in the Dominion, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara, from Vancouver, yesterday. Prior to leaving Manchester ho called on all the New . Zealanders in hospital there.—Press Association. Mr. Ernest Evans, president of the Wellington Tramway Employees' Union, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Tramways Appeal Board. It will be remembered that Lieut. Max Juries, of Wellington, received a oommiasion in the London Regiment, and after winning the Military Cross was taken prisoner by the Germans in an engagement in the north of France. Mrs. Jurlss had! the first letter from her husband last week! It took the form, of a portcard, and was dated from Essen. All he stated was that ho was being treated well, and his . wife was not to worry. Mr. Lodder, engineer for the Gear' Meat Company, returned from a trip to Australia by tho Moeraki yesterday. Mr. William Pearce, of ■ Levin and Co., returned from a visit to Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Mr. Alex. Veitch, a member of the Wellington City Council, who has been spending winter in Sydney, returned by the Moeraki yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. and the Misses Veitch. Mr. H. Quane, a well-known Christchurch commercial man, and Mr. Turner, iuspeotor for tho Union S.B. Company, arrived from Sydney by th'a Moeraki yesterday. The passengers by tho Niagara from Vancouver includo (states a Press Association message from , Auckland) Captain Armstrong and three others, who are touring the Empire with a view to arranging a motor patrol resorvq. Thoy will oomo to Wellington to confcr with' tho Government-. Socond-Lieutonant J. W. Gorrie, Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on July 19, was the youngest son of Mr. IT. T. Gorrie, of Auckland. Ho went to England in June, 1915, and joined tho Inns of Court, 0.T.C., and from thero was gazetted to tho Worcestershire Regimont. His major writes: "He was a splendid o'fKcsr 3 and wo all loved inni j ho died a gallant death. Tho battalion has done well,, and made a good deal of ground, but the price is heavy when guch as ho aro gono." Captain (tomp.) Robert Williams Michell, R.A.M.C., who was fatally wounded on July 3, was married in 1906 to Miss Emily Gillies, of Auckland. Ho served first on a» hospital ship, but from May, 1915, he had been attached to tho heavy guns. On July 3 lie organised and led a rescue party to bring in wounded men who had been lying out in 'No Man's Land' for two days. Although wounded himself, ho continued his work until ho was- struck a second time, aiid paralysed. Mr. Charles Haines is at present visiting Masterton. The late Mr. James M'Ciacken, wha died at Te Mata, Raglan was born at Baubridgo, County Down, Ireland. At tlio ago of twenty ho enlisted for servico in tlio Crimean War, but found that lie was under tho reguirea age. A few years later ho was drafted to Now Zealand with the 65th Regiment of Foot, arriving in , Wellington on July 21. 1856. He saw considerablo service in the Maori War, all through tho Waikato, Taranaki, and Hawke's Day camnaignlng. Wellington. Auckland, anu Napier, as Mr. M'Cracken first knew them, consisted of a few wooden houses. Ho helped to carry the first shingles used in Napier for tlio building of the soldiers' huts. After just upon eleven years of service he retired and settled on a Government grant of land to soldiers at Te iMata, oi.jFifc miles from Raglan. He was ono of" the pioneer settlers of that distriot, the oitiy conveyance between the township and Te Mata being a. bulloc.k wagon oncc a week, while the mail was brought on horseback once a week. Thero was a very largo gathering in the Pabautanui Hall, when Private A. Brady, who is leaving with the next Reinforcements, was presented by tha residents with a wristlet watch. Complimentary references wore made to tha guest of the eveninsc by Councillor J. E. Fitzgerald and Mr. W. Galloway, who drow attention' to the fact that many young men had left Pabautanui for the front. Dancing was indulged in, and a programme of vocal and instrumental items was provided. Mrs. Doneghno's orchestra was in attendance. During the evening a flag was sold in aid of tho patriotic funds, the proceeds being £4S. The elcctric Self-starter on Chevrolet Cars lias put to shame some of tho highpriced cars. It is very rare to find a Chevrolet owner starting his car with a cranking handle. In fact, many who have driven their cars for 10,000 miles have not yet had to start their car in any other way than fcy merely pressing the button. This is why the Chevrolet is the favourito ladies' car. There is no need for a chauffeur—a lady can do everything necessary without the slightest indignity. These handsome cars are supplied in any colour and -finish at prices from i 205. 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