PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3168, 20 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

II i<; Excellency the Governor-General, the Earl of Liverpool, is due to Teach Auckland to-morrow morniiw. accompanied by General Sir A. W. Ttobin, Commandant of the New Zealand 'Forces, and Surceon-Generol Sir It. S. T?. Henderson, Director-General of Medical Services. In the evening His Excellency will review the prnrrison troop?, and prosent medals and decorations to Auckland recipients. Tho Governor-General will visit Duuedin on August 27.

Sir .Tames Carroll. .M.P.. returned from Christchurch by tho Maori yesterday.

A Press Association cablegram from London states that Mr. I. W. Raymond lias beeu appointed chairman of tho r\ew Zealand War Contingent Association, in place of Lord Plunket. who has resigned. Mr. J. W. Frostick, of tho National Efficiency BoarJ, returned to Christ-chui-ch by Saturday night's steamer. Major Norton Francis left fur tho south by tho ferry steamer on Saturday night. Colonel Fitzgerald left for Christchurch by the ferry steamer on Saturday. TTus week the Very Rev. Archdeacon Devoy, of Newtown, wfu attain his fiftieth year in the priesthood. . — Mr. D. Moriarty, formerl yof Wellington, leaves for Pahiatua this week, where he is about to enter info business. • Private Charles Keith Kilgour Ward, who was killed in action in France on July 27, left with tho Eighth Reinforcements two years ago, and after serving in Egypt went to France, where he was wounded in July last year. After a brief spell ho rejoined his Tegument, and was transferred to tho Lewis machme.gua section. Lately he obtained ton days leave to, go to England, i and had returned to France about a month before ho made tho supremo sacrifice Ho would have attained his twenty-first birthday early next month.- At the time of his c-nlistment ho was on the clerical staff of the North British and Hawkea Bay Freezing Company, Napier. ■U the conclusion of the business of the Eastbourne Borough Council,, the Mayor (Mr. P. Lev;), on behalf of the council, presented tho late Mayor (Mr. J. P. Kelly) witli an enlarged photograph of tho council.. In making the presentation Mr. Levi referred to the valuable work done by Mr. Kelly during liis term of oflice. Inspector Shoehan, of the Auckland Police Force, has been'appointed to sue ceed Inspector Vhair, of Hamilton, in the charge of the Waikato district -Inspector Phair retires at the end of this month after forty years service. SubInspector Johnson, of Gisborne, is being promoted to the rank of inspector and will fill the vacancy created at Auckland. , Private Norman V. Ballinger, second son of Mr W H. Ballinger, Kelburn, who went with" the Thirteenth Reinforcements, was wounded on July 31 He w in the hospital at Walton-on-Thames. The death is announced from_Chnstchurch of Mr. Frederick Charles Murray for many years a prominent resident of Lincoln, who was closely associated uilh local bodies. The late Mr. Murray was born £ Dublin in 1843 and with hie father, the lato Mr. John Murray, of Lincoln Road. Cliristchnrch, armed at Lytteltoa in the ship Labuan in. 1851. Hβ began to farm at Lincoln, his estate ultimately amounting to 1200 acres. Mr. Murray carried on a successful system of mixed farming, and was the owner of one of the finest flocks of Leicesters m Canterbury. His herd of Shorthorn cattle claimed an equally distinguished descent. He was a member of the Springs Road Board for many years. Mr. Murray was a memfc of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and was a most successful prize-taker with eheep nnd cattle at Christchurch and Tunm u Hβ was also a member of the iwmers Union, and one of the directors of the Addington Saloyards Company.