PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. J. Clark, Mayor of Dunedin, is a visitor to Wellington. • ■

Last week it was announced that Corporal Brill, son of' Mr. Brill, Todman Street, Brooklyn, was decorated by the King for gallantry. Almost.immediately news came through- that Corporal Brill had been killed on the. battlefield. His father, an old and respected resident, is now living at Todman Street, Brooklyn, and will have the sympathy of all "who know him. The young soldier who is killed comes from a. fighting family, and Ins father fought right through the Maori wars. .

The Bank of New Zealand has been advised of the death on June 23 of Mr. W. Turton Holmes, of the London Advisory Board of the institution, in his sev-enty-eighth year. Mr. Holmes was <ui officer of the Bank of Madras some forty years ago. In 1890, when the Bank ol New Zealand was passing through a time of stress, Mr. Holmes came out. to New Zealand as general manager? being stationed at Auckland. ■ The head office had at that time been transferred to London, and Mr. Holmes was appointed from there. When the bank came- before Parliament in 1894, and legislation was passed in connection with its affairs, provision was made for a. retransfer of the head offico to New Zealand. Mr. Holmes retired, and the'late Mr. Henry Mackenzie was appointed his .successor. 'On returning to London, Mr. Holmes's services were secured for the bnrik by his appointment as a member of the London Advisory Board.

Tt is expected that Mr. W. H. Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner, who is at present visiting the West Coast of the North Island for the purpose of hearing disputes, will return to Wellington towards the end of the week.

A Press Association telegram from Wanganui announces the death of Mr. John C. Brechin, aged 95 years. Mr Arthur P. L. Langdon, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R..L. Langdon,, of Wai-iti, Masterton, has enlisted for active service, and passed as medically fit. Manv will regret .'to learn that Mr. .J. P. Cair of the Telegraph Departments staff is ill with an attack of pneumonia. He has been ill for a month, and is still confined to "his house. His health is now improving. The late Private J. Sellars wm a prominent Kugby footballer and'a-member ot' the New Zealand team which visited America. He. represented Auckland continuously since 1909, 1 won a North Island representative cap, and was a member of the Native team which toured Australia in 1910. Second Lieut. A. V. Donnan, who has died of wounds, was appointed Agricultural Instructor under the Auckland Education Board about five years ago. Hfi held a diploma from Hawkesbury College, and was one of its most distinguished students. Later his work was snenally with the Technical College students He enlisted in one of the earlier drafts as a non-commissioned officer, and after examination received his commission.

Jlr David Curio, one of 'the oldest newspapermen in the Dominion, died at his residence, Heme Buy Road, Auckland last week, at the ago of 80 years. The deceased had n most interesting career, aud was of a small band ot men who may bo said to have laid the foundations of journalism -in New Zealnnd He was a native ot Glasgow, where h« mastered his trade a.s a- printer ami arriving in New Zealand when Wellington was in its early growth, ho associated himself with the late Jr. Henry Blun-d-11 in ISIiS 'in establishing the Wellington "Evening Post," but relinquished his interest after a short time. Later on he was one of the proprietors of the "Wellington Chronicle,"- long _smco defunct. Ho then went to Wcstland, and purchased the "Rosa Guardian, which he conducted until'the end of tho eighties whi'ii lie acquired the "Bush Advocate," Danueyirke.. In 1901 he Sold the paper to Messrs. Nash and Coombe, present proprietors of the "Manawatu Standard " and went to live in Auckland. Ho has loft a widow, but no family.

Mr. A. A. Paape. who has been managing tho Waverloy Hotel in Auckland for the past two years, has been appointed manager of the Grand Hotel at Dunedin, ,>