PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3089, 21 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. W. Russell arrived from the south by the Alararoa yesterday morning. The Hon. A. M. Myers will arrive ia Wellington from Auckland this afternoon.

Mr. Justice Stringer passed througn Wellington on Saturday on his way to Aucklarid, where he will take the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court, commencing to-morrow.. The Court of Arbitration is to meet in Auckland on June 7.

Mr. W. If. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, has received cable advice that his son, Corporal H. D. Skinner, D.C.M., who left with the Otago Battalion of the 4th Reinforcements, and who was wounded on Gallipoli, has been discharged unfit from the force.

Mr. T. R. Fleming, Chief Inspector of Schools in the Wellington district, who is under orders to take up similar duties in Otago, will leave for Dunedin next week. So far his successor has not been appointed.

News has been received l,y cablegram in Melbourne of the appointment of Mr. Norman Brookes, the tennis player, as one of the British Red Cross commissioners in Mesopotamia. He will leave London immediately for Basra, to undertake his new duties.

Air. F. H. Bakewell, inspector cf schools, hag been nominated by Messrs. W. H. L. Foster and H. A. Parkinson as representative for the teachers of the middle district in the Council of Victoria College, in succession to Mr. T. R. Fleming, the Chief Inspector, who is being transferred to Otago.

Mr. Stuart Henrys, son of Mr. ,T. B. Henrys,' who left with the Main Body, attached to No. 2 Battery, N.Z.I'.A., has received a commission. He has been on active service for two years and nine months, and after the battle of the Homme was selected to go to the officers' training college at Exeter.

Mr. F. AV. ■ Rowley, Secretary . for Labour, has been away from his office for some days on account of indisposition. It is possible that an operation will be necessary to remove the cause of the trouble.

Captain J. Wright, of the Wellington Fire Police, who underwent an operation in a Dunedin private hospital some weeks ago, is making a good recovery, and hopes to be strong enough to return home shortly.

Air. T. J. Boland, who has been for many years second chief clerk at the Napier money order office, has been appointed postmaster at Courtenay Place, Wellington.

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. W. H. Hagger) will leave'for Wanganui to-morrow in connection with the settlement of tho carpenters' dispute there. Hβ expects to Teturn to AVellington on Thursday or Friday next.

Mr. Allen Haigh, one of the pioneers of the West Coast, died last week. A native of Elland, County of Yorkshire, he left England with the troops to take part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, and was one of the defenders of Lucknow, under Sir Colin Campbell, in 1857-58, and held the double clasp and medal of tho Eighty-fourth Regiment. Leaving India for New Zealand with the Imperial troops, lie saw further service in tlif Maori Wars, and was at Gate Pa and Tauranga Pa engagements, for which ho gained the Maori war medal.

On May 21 (says the 'Telorus Guardian") Mr. "\Y. E. Fortescue, of Cullensiville, Mahafcinawii. will attain his 100 t.li 'birthday. Mr. Eortescue, who is still hale and hearty and in possession of his faculties, has been 77 years in New Zealand, having arrived at Port Nicholson (then called Britannia) on January 4, 1840 He was born in 1817, and was thus a subject of George 111 for three years, and remembers in succession tho passing away of Georgp TV, William IV, Victoria, and Edward VII.

On Saturday evening next, at Dunedin, Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence), will present to Mrs. A. W. Porleous the Military Cross won by her husband. ConipaTiy-Sorgeant-Maior Porteons went away with the Main Body, in the North Otago Company of the Otago Infantry Battalion and was killed at Galhpoli in May of 1915. Prior to his departure he was on tho permanent staff in the Oamarii district. Before enlisting he worked in (he Hillside Workshops, and he was a crack shot in the Cavershatu Rifles. All veterans, returned, soldiers, Territorials, and Senior Cadets will receive instructions to attend the presentation parade.

Mr. W. J. O'Neill, who was formerly employed' in the Post and Telegraph Stores, Waterloo Quay, died itv the Wellington Hospital on Friday night, aged 4S years. A week ago he had a. recurrence of an old trouble, and was obliged to re-enter the Hospital. A eon of the deceased went to the front - about two years ago, and was wounded Tecently.