PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death occurred in England last month, at the age of 80, of Lieut.-General Sir F. M. Colvilo, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. General Colvile served in the New Zealnnd War of 1864-65.

Mr. William Hazard, the last survivor of the 57th Regiment, bus died at the age of "7, says a Press Association message from Auckland. ' He landed in New ZealanH with the regiment in 1862, and haTT eight years' service in the colony, going through the whole of the Taranaki war. After an interval in Australia, Mr. Hazard took up land in the Mongonui district, afterwards entering business as a gum and general mer-. chant. Mr. Steen, also a member of the 57tlis, died early this month, and the loss of his friend is considered to be largely responsible for Mr. Hazard's death.

Les Darcy, Ihe Australian boxer, is in a critical condition (states a Press Association cablegram from Memphis, U.S.A.). His physicians say that only his wonderful vitality will save him.

English papers chronicle the death early in March at Strathkinnes, of Mr. Robert Martin, who was golf champion in 1876 and 1885 at Home. He was associated with the St. Andrew's links the whole of his life, and as a proof of the quality of his play, went round those links on three occasions in 75 strokes. v

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association Mr. H. J. Booth was elected a life member of the association in consideration.of his long and meritorious services. Mr. Booth had for twenty-three years been a member of the committee.

Mr. J. Mackintosh, who succeeds Mr. Fricker as editor of the "Australasian," is one of the younger men in journalism who have made a quick advance to tho front. He has been on tlio editorial side of the "Argus" for about nine years. Prior to his attachment by the Melbourne daily he had been connected with the late "Morning Herald," of Perth (W.A.), and was one of file best all-round writers on tho paper.

News has been received of the granting of a commission to Sergeant-Major Hector Camerou, formerly of the Prisons Department in Auckland. He left with the jfnin Expeditionary Force as a corporal and went through the Gallipoli campaign and the operations in France without receiving a wound or suffering a day's sickness. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant-major whilst at Gallipoli. He wont Home at the latter end of 191G to go through a course of instruction for his commission; and passed the Qualifying examination in March last. He has been attached to an Imperial regiment, and is Miev«d t" be now at the front. Mr. ,T. B. Thompson, manager of Messrs. Dalgety aid C'o.'s Dannevirke branch, and well known in the Wairarapa. has accepted a position as nead or the stock department in the newly established business in Dannevirke of the Wairarapa Fanners' Co-operative Association.