PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3100, 2 June 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The' Hon. W. H. Hemes left jesterdtf? for Auckland. He will be hack in Wek lington on Wednesday. -Tlie Hon. J. A. Hajian has decided to accept the invitation of Cabinet to occupy the vacant seat on the University .Semite caused by the death of Mr. Gordon, late Chief Inspector of Mines. . Tho death' of Edward de Eeeke, the Polish singer, is announced in n. cable message from Amsterdam. Mr. H.-'W. Bishop; S.M., 'of Christcluuch, h.as been appointed successor to ..Mr." W. If. Haselden, S.M., as chairman of the Railway Appeal Board. It was on the death of District Judge Ward that , Mr. Haselden was appointed chairman of the South Island Appeal Board, and when later on Mr. H. E. Kenny, S.M., retired from-the-chairmanship of the North Island Board the two positions were amalgamated. . . Captain J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, and his brother-in-law,. Mr. C. Bayly, ' were in Palestine when the last mail left that .country. ■ : On the motion of the Mayor the City, Council decided at its last' meeting to ! send the congratulations of tho city to Brigadier-General Freyberg, V.C., D.b.0., on liis recent -promotion. "The Mayor announced that he had already coramuni-; cated with General mother,' offering her congratulations. : Detective-Sergeant M'llvehey, of Christ- , church, who was for many years in Wellington, is visiting here. Sergeant P.' Harvey, formerly of Wellington and now stationed at Otahuhu, is on a, visit to the city. ; The Rev. H. and Mrs. Van -■Staverenv have left Wellington on n visit to Aus-; tralia. They -will be absent for about month. -■■-.•■ Captain Cardale, who "has been. Chief Instructor Mounted Rifles since the commencement of the war, has resigned that position to proceed on active service aa O.C. Mounted Bffles Reinforcements. Captain Cardale served through the South African War. ' ■ : The death occurred at his residence at Miraiuar on Thursday of Mr. W. a Hooker, a well-known messenger in the employ of the Post and Telegraph De-: partment in Wellington for.many years, The deceased, -who was 58 years of age, i 'succumbed to an attack of pleurisy and pneumonia. Mr. Cederholm, manager of the Gis-: borne Freezing Company's works, js a. visitor to Wellington. Laucc-Corporal Henry M. T. T. Levinge, of the New Zealand ltiflo Brigade, who was killed in action on March Ii» was a son of Stafl-Surgeou H. Levinge.of Wairoa, and a nephew of Dr. Levinge, of the staff of the Porirua Mental Hospital. He took part in the Somme battle, and came through it with only a scratch:on tho cheek from a shrapnel bullet. Deceased was the third member of tl.e :Lerage family to give his life iu the present war. The first to fall was Mr Richard Levinge, Bart., of Knockdnn Castle, Mullingar, Ireland, which has been the seat of the Levinge family for 200 years. Sir Eichard was in the JEirst Life Guards. Another, a'lieutenant in.the Imperial Army, was killed eight months ngo. Dr. Levinge has received a letter from a comrade of "his eons in ths Eifle Brigade, expressing the warm sympathy of the corps in his loss. . Tho death is announced, at Highfield, Deepdene, of Mr. R, S. Smythe, familiarly known in New.Zealand and Aus-; >tralia as "The Much Travelled.' lliu. title he earned by his business wander.; ings all over the globe. The.late Mr.i Smythe ■ -was for many years the best' known impresario in the colonies. Mr.: Smythe arrived in Melbourne in 18a5,j and spent eight years on the Australian. pre=s. Dnring his long career he net' most of the men and women of celebrity. oa the stage and platform. He had x\ wonderful memory, and this , , added tohis courtesy, cheerfulness, and other engaging qualities, made him one of the, most remarkable of. personalities. Hβ. died at the age of 84. His son, Mr. Car-, lyle Smythe, is a man of marked literary ability. The presentation on Thursday evening to Mr. J. W. M'Ewan, Mayor of Petone, took tho form of a. gold watch engraved, and Mrs..M'Ewan was present-; ed with a silver tea-service on an oak tray, to which was attached a plate engraved as follows:—"Presented by the citizens of Petone to Mrs. J. W. M'Ewau for her good work as Mayoress, 1907-I*. , Mr M'Ewan was also handed a wellfilled wallet, the proceeds of the evening's gathering. Captain W. H. Hawkins, of Paliiatna. is still an inmate of Chelsea. Hospital, whilst his son, Percy, who left with the Main Body, is in the Walton-on-Thanira Hospital, having been wounded in France. An old colonist and military veteran, Captain J. W. Kenah, died at his residence "at Epsom last week. Captain' Konah was born at Goughal, County r Cork, Ireland, in 1812, and came to jVcw : Zealand as a boy. He enlisted in the Military Settlers' Corps during the Maori War. and saw fighting at the Bay of Plenty, Pipiriki, and Taranak,, rismfi to the captaincy of the Wairoa Kifle Volunteers. Returning to Ireland in.1874, he married • the daughter .of Mr. Nicholas Boland, high sheriff of Cork City; The return.passage was made in. the sailing ship St. Leonards. Deceased took up land in Taranaki, where he became one of the pioneers-of the dairy industry. ■ -."••-. ''