PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association telegram slates that Councillor Stapley hasten elected ■Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Tho I'M.O. at Featherston Camp, ilaior Uraliara Robertson, has been pro- . of the Sew Zealand Medical Coips. Bishop Cleary is expected back m ' New Zealand from the Western front vco- shortly, hi Auckland a reception is being arranged. The Hon. U. Garrard, of Sydney, merly Minister of Education fw.- £c» ■ Smith Wales, lias arrived in Auck an , aft"- visiting the' South Sea. Islands Jn company with the general, secretary .of the South Sea Methodist Mission. . I Among those, reported;. '' IS . , s ''f ft '' wounded in Ihe recent big battle., at Yp'el was Lieutenant-Colonel; Horace w'eUon, Crown solicifor at New Ifljinout.h. brother o Mr. T. ■J>™;™ Weston, of the legal firm °^\ m f»T Weston, of Wellington. ..LicutenanlColonel Weston left New-Zealand a,-, captain 'in the Sixth Reinforcement, and .»£ in tho stand made l»r the New Zea, lnnders at the Apex on Gailipoli.vwent hrouU the blizzard and final evacuaion and afterwards went, to Trance m command of his (the Taranak.) Company of the Wellington .Ttegiment He fondil at Flers, m the Somme S and was there slightly wounded, U not sufficiently to warrant his leaving his. unit. Subsequently..-he.was ..elected as.one of four officers to-go-to ■"England for special training, .as-- Mt- ' ifoncommanders at..AJdershot, and-was • there from January to the end oT Maien his vear Be returned to. his battalion s second in command (2nd T!e»iment). and in. the-.afeence of his cnlmet was in command of We regiment .at c Mes«ines and La Basse Ville hff.hU Subsequent to thoseiachons 5l?"W« plaeed 4n command of (lie 3rd. Dt.ago Swiroent ■S„„T Bri-acleV Lieutenant-Colonel ' Si's wife is in London at the present U Lieutenant Sinclair Macalisfcr whose name appears among .the wounded n.ye*X ? s P casualty list, was a young lawyer who 'had lately commenced practice at Stratford. He was formerly an officer in the Post and Telegraph .Deparbtfonl. • Among those recently at the front was Lieutenant Douglas A. FTarle. who was a. son of Mi. h. .u. Harle, postmaster at Ashburtoii. Before leaving with the Forces, the deceased had passed all his qualifying examinations as a lawyer. . Second-Lieutenant Evan 0. M fipbcrU of Auckland, is among tho li»t of tlo»e Ist recently killed in actio.;. Lichen.„„t 11' Roberts, who *ns J son of Mr.. S .T. M'Tioberts, of Mount. Eden, AuckHn was a connler-clerk in the Auckland Telegraph Office before he joined up ■with the Forces. ;..."',.' ". ,- ■.The Hsl of wounded issued■ yesterday Christclmrcli. ~ ..... ■ Mr W. .1. Ralph, of I he; 1/J'irj" 7» l mine;. Auckland, .arrived in Well.nglon yesterday. '■:■,.■■■:■■ ' Mr. TT. Braithwaite, of Duncdin, -now in Tnndon has won a scholarship foe 1 „m,n t the- Tioval- Academy for Mu4~ The''conipetition tool, and is^t iS^t&^^seVby i ,ab S Mr. Braithwaite chose as hj» suojec, 'I'jniivcon's "Pass ng of Arthur. .!ne 'scholarship is tenable for three year. Mrs Leese, of Owen Street, has received cable news that her son, Lieiitenor,f Keith Little, has been wounded in «-as formerly a member of the.1 te.aij staff of ThkDomisiox, was a Mam Body nan. He left New Zealand aa sergeant o, the clerical staff .of General GodK, ad contracted enteric at Gnihlioli. He. W a subsequently drafted to England and became a staff sergeant-major at hlmg Oaiwi He was given a commission a few months ago. and was unfortunate to b» wounded in his .first engagement. fintnin V. S. Varnham, who is renortePd to have been .slightly wounded, is Hon of Mr. J. Varnham. of. Levin (late "he cleri with the Wellington Educa-

(ion Board). _ . , Air J C. Stahdidge, of. "Fairfield, Waipawa, and late of Wellington, died sudS yesterday morning at Ins res,d The death is announced from Dunedm of IS William Coull, of the well-known nrinting and publishing firm o Coiills, C, lng and Co., in that c ty. The late M Coull, who was born in London 80 rears Vo went out to the West indies Xn aVd and spent several years ttere with an unc e. .Uelunimg to hv> na ™° city he learned the printing trade, and before coming to New Zealand with his hvo brothers in MM. he was «»«»»*?* of the London "Daily ™egraph. Soon niter landing n Dunedin Mr. Coull ana S^-^tsr=^i <h ghteMrs John Foster, of Dunedin) fflerbirt Coull, of Wellington, is one of his nephows. . Private advice has been received that Private A. D. Johnston, son of Mr. Alexander Johnston, Central. Terrace Kel)>urn, has been slightly wounded in the thigh.. Mr. A. A. Whitclaw, of the elereotyp; ing department of the "Evening Post has been advised that his youngest son, Private Eric Rowland Whitelaw,has been killed iu action. Private Whitelaw entered the service of Messrs. Hatriek and Co., Wellington, after leaving school, and was employed in their motor department when he enlisted. He left with the Seventh Reinforcements, and escaped being wounded until the Inst big battle in France. His two brothers have both «ained the Military Medal. The eldest, Supper f.eii Whitelaw, was at Samoa, and left New Zealand with the Sixteenth Reinforcements. Ho was wounded, but is back in the The. other. Private Leslie Whitelaw. who left with tho Fourteenth Reinforcement*, has also been wounded, and is now in the Brockcuhursl Hospital.

News has been received that Lieutenant Jlilnes, principal - "of'tho Auckland Training College, was killed-in action on October i. Lieutenant Milnes, who was 44 years of age, occupied a very high place in the teaching- profession. He exercised great influence for good on his pupils,'with whim he was most popular. He received a very hearty send-off when lie went into camp.

Mr.' 0. E. Pavitt is leaving tlio firm of Harcourt and Co. shortly to go'into camp.' .''' ■ .'....■'

On the verge of his S9th year, there died at Whangaiei, on Wednesday, Mr. Hobert Samuel Lincoln, described as tho father of the Postal service in Auckland. Mr. Lincoln was born at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, on November 21, 1828. He arrived at Auckland on June 6, 1836, in the barque Chatham (Captain Cole), which vessel lirst called at New Plymouth. With Mr. Lincoln camo his wife and three children. In 1861' Mr. Lincoln was appointed librarian to the General Assembly at Auckland, and in. ISG3 was transferred to the Post Office. He was for many years letter-carrier for Queen Street, and in that capacity m'ada many friends amongst the bußiness people. Mr. Lincoln reached' the age limit .in. 1888. when he retired from tbef 'public service; Mrs. Lincoln died in 1906. The late Mr. Lincoln was always recognised as a man of most upright character, being highly esteemed by many friends: 'Heis survived by five children: Mesdaraes .1. Siyiicld, W. E. Hears, ,T. P. Tucker, Messrs. N. S. Lincoln, and J. R. Lincoln. There are 21 grandchildren.and 54 greatgrandchildren. ' ' • Advico has been received that 'Lieutenant J. S. Marsden,. son of Mr. and Mrs. Marsden, of Petone, was killed in action on October 4. Lieutenant Marsden was a teacher at the Terrace School when he enlisted. He left as O.C. E Company of tho Twenty-first Reinforcements, from which he waa> transferred in England to a light trench mortar battery- Lieutenant Marsden was 25 years of age. al'O. married Miss ?era Hunter, of Mount Cook Infant School staff, just before leaving for tlie front. He was an exceedingly popular teacher, and took* particularly keen interest in-the athletic pastimes of his pupils. In -advising the senior pupils of the Terrace School -yesterday of their former masters death in action, the headmaster Mr. Macmorraa, paid a tribute to the high character, of Lieutenant Marsden, who had given up his life, which was full of promise <* "most successful career, in the Empires great struggle.