PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2904, 17 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

'The Hon. J. Allen goes _ south tonight. He intends to visit Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invorcargill.

Sir Francis Bell was a passenger for the south by the Mararoa last evening.

The Hon. W. Fraser arrives by the Main Trunk train this, morning, from the north, and', leaves again for ■ Pioton at midday.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald is leaving for Napier this morning. He will attend the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Show.' " .

Mr. W. R. Blow, agent for the Tourist Department of New Zealand, arrived from Sydney by the Riverina yesterday. He was accompanied by his wife.

Mr. F. Lowater returned to Wellington from Australia by the Rivorina yesterday.

Among the latest to onlist for active service is Mr. John Coyle, secretary of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He has intimated his intention to tho chairman (Mr. H. Baldwin), with the news that ho is to go into camp on December 11.

Tho Rev. Father Cameron was a passenger from Australia by tho Riverina yesterday. Mrs. Austin Elder has been advised by cablegram that her son, Pto. K. A. Elder, who enlisted in the Australian forces at the beginning of the war, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

Messrs. D. S. .Evans, S. Salek, Herbert Shortt, and J. H. Parker (Christohurch) were among the passongcrs to arrive from Sydney by the Riverina yesterday.

A cablegram received by Mr. J. ■]). Sievwright from his son, Lieut. A. B. Siovwright, who is-with the New Zealand Forces in Franco, conveys the reasuring tidings "AH well." The cablegram was dispatched from a field office under dale October 9-

The death occurred at Hobart last week of Dr. B. J. Roberts, medical superintendent of tho Hobart Hospital, and brother of Miss Roberts, of Nelson. He was well-known in Nelson, haying been in practice there for some

years. Colonel Bengali was a. passenger' by the Mararoa for the south last evening. Lieut. Arthur P. Castle, reported killed in action in France, was the son of Mr. J. G. A. Castle, of Petane. He went io Wellington College from Petone School as a Queen's Scholar, and from Wellington College to Victoria University College with a Turnbull scholarship. Lieutenant Castle graduated M.A. with honours in 1913. After two years at the' Wellington Training College he was appointed a resident master at the pisborne High School, where he remained until he enlisted, as a private in the Fourth Reinforcements. He received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant, in the Second Battalion of tKh Rifle Brigade, and gained his full lieutenancy •More his. battalion; left Egynt for France. Lieutenant Castle was 2o years of age. .