PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3072, 7 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Jbs. Allen (the Acting-Prim* Minister), accompanied by Miss Allen, arrived from the South yesterday.

A Press Association message rrom Westport announces tho death ot Mr. Hans Larsei,, ex-Mayor ot Westport, and a member of various local bodies, after an operation. The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, on Saturday admitted Mr. Vt • ". Cooker as a barrister and solicitor ol tho Supreme Court. Mr. . Cooker is a member of the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements, ami be was' admitted on tho application of Mr. D. S. Smith, formerly of the firm of Morison and Smith, and also a member ot the Twenty-ninth .Reinforcements. Lieutenant 11. R. V. Petrie, whoi underwent & serious operation in the » ellington Military Hospital, some three weoks ago, is now progressing. Lieutenant Petrie was dangerously wounded last September in tho battle on the. Somme. His brother, SergeantMajor Prank Petrie, who left with the Nineteenth Reinforcements, is now in the firing line.

■ The death occurred at Te Awamutu on Monday last of Mr. Washington Smith Stewart, formerly headmaster of tho Foxton School, at the age of 7u years. The late Mr. Stewart had been in indifferent hpalth for some time. He held tho degree of 8.A., being a graduate in Arts of tho Royal University in Ireland, and also held the classification of Bl under the New Zealand Department of Education. He entered tho Education Department's employ in 1882, his first three years heiug spentas headmaster of the Cambridge High School. While there ho Tefuscd an inspectorship under tho Department. Ho was afterwards at the Timaru High School and at Greymouth. He occupied tho position of headmaster of the Foxton School for the greater part of twenty years, being retired on superannuation at the end of 1906.

Mr A. N. Poison, of the Ministerial Secretarial Staff, has recently re-en-listed for service. ,

The Rev. Father John Francis O'Donnell, pastor in charge of the Queenstown-Arrow Roman Catholic Church for the past twenty years, and brother of tho Rev. Father J. JO'Donnell, of Ashburton, died on Thursday last. Bom in 1852, in County Limerick, Ireland, Father O'Donnell was educated at Mount Melleray Seminary, conducted by tho Trappist Brother's, and at All Hallows College, Dublin, studying classics at Mount Melleray.and' tkeoloey at All Hallows. He was ordained priest in 1889 at All Hallows College, and came but to Diinedin with tho late Bishop Moran in 'October of the same year. He became curate of Milton in November, 1889, and continued till June, 1893. Father O'Donnell then became missioner-in-charge at Palmerston till October, 1896, when ho was stationed at Queenstown.