PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3146, 26 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman left for the south last evening.

Tho Bishop of Nelson (tho Right Rev. W C. Sadlier) received intimation yesterday that ho had been unanimously elected Bishop of Gippsland, Victoria. Ho is taking time to consider his decision. Dr. Sadlier, who then held a Melbourne enre, was qlected Bishop of Nelson in 1912.—Press 'Association.

Mrs. M'Hugh, of P4paroa_ Street, Christchurch, has received advice that her husband, Captain H. D. M'Hugh, has been awardod the Military Cioss.

A Press Association telegram from Feilding states that Mr. Ernest Short, tho well-known Roniney Marsh and Hereford breeder, had a bad accident on luosday, being kicked on the head Vy a young horse, and rendered unconscious. He will probably be confined to his bed for some time.

Mr. G. W. Forbes, M.P., and Mr. R. M'Callum, M.P., went south by the ferry steamer last evening

Lieutenant-Colonol Harcourt-lurner, Commandant of Motuihi Island (tho German internment camp at Auckland) is visiting Wellington for a few days. Captain Post, of'the Transport Board, was a passenger for tho south by tho Maori last evening. Dr. M'Killop and Dr. Fitzgerald were passengers for the south by tho Maori last evening.

The resignations of tho following teachers were accepted by tho Wellington Education Board yesterday-.-Miss M. Williams, assistant, Terrace; Miss CM. Ross, secondary assistant Fctono District High School; Mr. P.-Stafford, so e teacher, Horoeka; Miss E. 13. Dagg, sole teacher,I Thurana; Miss E. i-ioble, pupil teacher, Masterton; Miss D. L. Mead, sole teacher, Tetlcy Brook; Miss ,T. Campbell, solo teacher, Wairoagomai; Miss \. A. Holm, assistant, Moumt Cook Girls'; Miss N. I. Welsby, assistant, Te Marua; Mr. D. Freeman, instructor in nTiculturo; Mr. R, H. Cinders, dispatch cferk, board office; Miss E. M. Holm, assistant, Brooklyn.

Mr. G. Flux, who recently retired on superannuation from tho headmastership of the Wellington South School, has accepted an office appointment in tho Education Board at a salary of i"l per week. Tho appointment will not affect his' superannuation.

It waS reported at the meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board last evening that nows had been received of the death in Franco from wounds of Sergeant C. G. Silvester, the board's chief mechanic, Sergeant Silvester was a single maai, about -H) years of age. The board's engineer reported that the late Mr. Silvester joined the board's service in 1902, Ire was appointed foreman in 190G, ami ehie'F mechanic in 1910. Ho was a capable and energetic officer, and loyal to a de-i Kiee. As far as was known Mr. Silvester' had no relatives in tho Dominion.

Cabled news has been received that; Driver 0. G. Wilkening, second sen of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilkening, nf Island Bay, is dangerously i!l at (he Second Western Hospital, Manchester. Driver Wilkening, who left Xew Zealand with Hie 9th "Reinforcements, was, prior to t-nlist-ment, on the staff of Messrs. Bethuna and Co., Featherston Street, and was a ,TV,ell-Jga,oTO jSflWßfflfifii . '

. : u— Mr. B. Fletcher was excused from attendance at the Harbour Board . meeting last evening on the score of ill- Oiealtlw The chairman (Mr. C. E. Daniell? mentioned that' Mr. Fletcher's conditiol'i was rather serious. Mr. James Alexander, Assistant .S'uper" intendent of Telegraphs, Wellington!, who has been elected to the vacancy c in tho Public Service Board of Appeal < suised through tho resignation of Mr. A'J( zander Mill, as representative of tho ! 'olograph Branch of tho Post and Telegx aptt Department, served for many yea\ra in, the Christchurch office of the PosH 'and Telegraph Department. For the , past thirteen years or so he has been ia ■Wellington, and he is now lissis tant superintendent here. He has taken a very prominent part in the activities of the officors of the Department, and part scularly in tlio Post and Telegraph itsso; Ration/ Tn the election to tho Pu-blio Service. Board of Appeal ho secured 1 Sib votes against !)SS cast "for his opponc mt, Mr. H. I. Bennett. Mr. Frank Godwin, who had been *ji charge of tho Thorndon Fire fetati- " for several years past, died m the \U »- lington Hospital on Tuesday night. h-l« became ill last Thursday, and late o it Sundav night it was found necessary 1 a remove him to the Hospital, where n< \ operation for appendicitis was performed. J Peritonitis sunervened. Tne deceased., was born in Williamstown, \ictona im:. 1872, and was in the Melbourne Firo-j Brigade before coming to New 7/ralnnd. no has loft a widow and one cluld. AU: the members of the brigade who can, be spared will attend the funeral this afternoon.