PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2968, 4 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Dr. R. M'Nab returned yesterday from Rotorua and Taupo. The Rev. James Ings, of Auckland, arrived by the Main Trunk express yesterday, and went south by the Maori en route for Dunedin, on annual holiday leave. The many friends of Mr. Arthur Harvie, of the Bank of Australasia staff, who enlisted in tho Australian Forces, will regret to learn that he has been wounded, and is now in hospital in. England. His wound is not stated to' be serious.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parker left by last night's express for the north. They will ho absent for about a fortnight.

Sergeant-Major ID. 31. Viekery, who has received the Distinguished Conduct Medal, is well known in Auckland. Hβ was one of the non-commissioned officers who wero lent by the Imperial authorities to tho New_ Zealand Government in connection with the inauguration of the territorial military training schemo a,, few years ago. Prior to coming to New Zealaud lie was connected with tho Boyal Engineers for thirteen years. Before tho war he was attached for some time to the Auckland district headquarters staff as instructor in field telegraph and telephone work. Hβ left for the front with, the signal section, and served on GJallipoli some time before being invalided to England. He is a native of London, and comes of a family of fighters.

Private A. N.- Reid, who -until ho loft for the front was on tho literary staff of Tub Dominion, and son of Mr. T. A. H. Field, M.P., has been discbaiged from the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces as the result of shrapnel wounds received in Franco. Being still fit for light dutjes, Private Field sought further service in any capacity, and word has been received that lie has been appointed as assistant-paymaster in the Naval Beservo, which carries tho rank of sub-lieutenant.

Mr. and Mrs. Lindo Levieil have returned from Nelson, where they have been spending the Christmas holidays.

Mr. S. B. F. Walmsley, a colonist of 66 years' standing, and one of the pioneers of the Obinerauri goldfields, is dead (says a Press Association telegram from Waihi). He was the first contractor for the supply of timber to tho Waihi Company.

Mr. George Grant, C.8., of Gisborno, and a director of the Gisborne Publishing Company, who died recently as tho result of injuries received by being thrown from his horse, had resided in Gishorne for about 35 years. He was bom in. London and educated in England and Germany, subsequently qualifying as a. civil ongineer in London. For some years he was an officer of the Public Works Department. Hβ went to Gisborne in 1881, and for twelve years he held tli6 position of Government valuer in the Poverty Bay i district.

Mr. J. C. Cherrie, -who has beesf depot, chargeman on the xVelson section of railways for a little over three jrears, has been promoted to the position, ot locomotive ■j'oromaii at Whangarei, and will leave Nolsou iu the course of a. few days. Jlis place irill bo taken hy Depot Cliargomau Clark, of Wellington.

Mr. Charles H. Lucena, well known in Wellington/ and the Wairarapa, was found dead in his bed in the Wakatu Hotel, Nelson, on Monday night. The deceased, who was born at Pigeon JJush, near Feathcrston, fifty-three years ago, was educated in ilia Wairarapa and at Wellington College, and, ou completing his education entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand, retiring sorao years ago, when he came> into a considerable amount of property left him by his father,-the late Mr. W. L. Lucena, who was the owner of the Pigeon Bush Estate luitil he sold it to the late Mr., Charles Tringham, sen. For about a year before his deafli MrCharles I/ucena had been living in. Nolson. He )ia.s left a widow and two daughters. Mrs. Arthur \Varhurton,_o£ Wellington, is his sister. At the inquest a verdict of death, from hearfc failure was recorded. For some time before he died Mr. Lucens had beeiv under medical treatment.

Mt. Henry A'Court, for thirtr-six VW s secretary of tho Kaiapoi Woollen Company, died in Christchurclj on Saturday. Hβ was born ae the Lower Hutt. In the early seventies he entered the employ of Messrs. Belcher and Fairweather, of Kaiapoi. After the advent of the railway the firm gave up business. Upon the incorporation of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, Mr. A/Cotirt •was engaged as secretary, a position he held uitit hie death. He leaves * widow, one son, and four daughters. A Crimean veteran is dead,-in the person of Mr. T. R. Dickinson of Merivale, Christchurch. -Mr. Dickinson, in additioa to seeing service in the Crimea, was also attached to the Indian army. Hβ afterwards held reBponsible positions under the Imperial. Government. In 1864 he settled at Gust, where he was engaged in iarming pursuits, subsequently retiring to reside at Merivale. , Referring to the death on Sunday morning of Mr. Robert Hill Ingle, the well-known caretaker of the Government reserve at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, the Auckland "Herald" says:— Mr Ingle had been absent from dutythrough illness for two or three daye, but got up on Sunday and had a bath, after which he sat down in his chair, fell back, and in a few minutes passed away. Heart trouble was the cause ok death. Mr.. Ingle was within a few days of 61 years of age,having been born on January 15, 1856, at Ehnsthorae. Leicestershire. He had been caretaker, of Whakarewarewa for about? three and a half years, previous to which he was Government guide as Waimangu for eight years. Betoro then he was for several years guide at Wairakei. He came to the. .North Island from Canterbury, where he resided at Governor's Bay, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits. Hβ is survived by his wife.