PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2951, 11 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. Allen, Acting Prirao Minister and Minister of Defence, who went south on Saturday, has arranged to visit the military hospital at Hanmer Springs to-day, in company with Colonel- Chaff ey (officer commanding the- Canterbury Military District) and Lieutenant-Colonel It. H. Rhodes.

The Hon. Sir Francis Bell has gone to ( the South Island.

A Press Association telegram from' Sydney states that Mr. R. D. Meagher ha 3 been re-elected Lord Mayor.

Mr. H. F. Johnstou, who was iu New Zealand recently with the magnetio survey yacht Carnegie, enlisted in. Canada m tho University of Toronto Officers' Training Company, and has been appointed assistant to the superintendent of compasses and compasß adjustment for the Admiralty with the rank of lieutenant.

Mr. A. Royle, of Christchurch,, arrived in Wellington yesterday.' .''

The Hon. J. Allen, Aoting-Prima Minister, left for the south on Saturday. Ho will probably leave Lyttelton to-night to return to Wellington.

Lieutenant F. L. Murray, who is 1 proceeding to the front with tho Twentieth Mounted! Rifle Reinforcements, saw servico in the African war with the Third New Zoalaikl Contingent.

A Crimean veteran died suddenly, last -week at Lcith Valley, Dunedin, where tie had been living for the past 46 years. This was Mr. Alexander Carson, who was horn iu County Down,. Ireland, iu 1829, and attained tho age of 87 last August. He was all through the Crimean campaign in the vigour of his early manhood, _ and woro two medals and a. clasp, indicating that her had had part in the historic struggles at Sebastopol and Alma. He left the army in 1866, and came to New Zealand in 1870, where he had bpen engaged in farming and gardening in tho Leitli Valley ever since.

Mr. 0. E. Waddingham was admitted as a solicitor at ths Supremo Court at Auckland last week by Mr. Justice Hosking, on the motion of Mr. J. Stanton, oity solicitor.. Mr. Waddingham is a returned soldier, liar--ing left with the Main Body, and served in Gallipoli in the Medical Corps.