PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Josopli AVard ie expected to return to Wellington to-morrow morning.

Tho Hon. G. W. Hussell will learo fo: Christchurch to-night. Hβ expects t> be back in Wellington on baturda; morning. The .lion. W. Frnser loft for tho eontl latst niuht to go to Dunedin and tin Taieri district, to mako personal 111 onirics as to tho extent of the damap caused in that district by tho two seven floods which visited it in tho past winter Tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, whi has been in Christchurch, w to retun to Wellington on Wednesday morning. Sir James Allen and Major-General Si Alfred Uobin visited Trentiiam Camp and witnessed fiome exciting bouts 11 the soldiers' boxing tournament, held 11 tho Church of England Institute. Dur in" tho evening the visitors inspected- Hi institutes of other churches and bodie Hid tho Soldiers' Club, as we 1 as -man; jf tho interesting phases of lite, in ui !n mp at night. On tho follomn* da Hγ James Allen and Major-Geneia ■iobin spent tho whole day in tho camp L'ho Chief of Staff, Colonel CM. Gib »n, and tho Camp Commandant, Co one I. E. Potter, accompanied them in uiei nspection of the camp. Mr R. M'Calluin, M.P., has booi lected a member of Wellington Ldu alion Board, vice thoMato Mr. A. M :ay. Mr. M'Callum was tho only nom Genuine and widespread sorrow wil |,e felt at the news of the death at t£ front of Captain John Keir, oi Welling ton. Captain Keir was tho head of thi Bm of J. Keir and Co., carriers and for warding agents, which has existed 11 Wellington for many years. Ho was . most enthusiastic officer in the oM uuw Leering days, and was an ardent leade. ftho time when sham fights were, he< M an essential part of the training o. i soldier. Ho was considered .» l.r&t ate officer, with all the qualities; of ; lisciplinaiian, and one who knew hoy t< aer f his powers with wl « nt ,°? r rO K Prom-the time when war fi»t »«*« >J\, no was anxious to go to the front, uU a-as not until he secured Mr. *\. "-»« is a partner that ho was able tncuci iU services Ho left here in raargp o: fe o to reinforcement, some six o $,t months ago, and only a few d^ tid lieutenant LY.Bassett form T l y of the teaching staff of tho Aenu if Wanganui, wag recently wounded. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnston, formerlj esidenU of Wellington, are at present n own, havinj recently arrived Iroin byd 1 The Kev. Dr. Pinfold, from Mosgiel Dunedin, is spending a few days m\\ el 1 Cajtein James Tait, who has been her jour master at Tiniaru since 1909, an ho previously from 1897 was mas ero ho Harbour Board's dredges, died o unday afternoon, following a parahti, stroke on Wednesdal night. The. W Captain Tait was aged 60, .utivo of the Shetland Islands. Ho fol owed the sea all his life, and was . m alter in the Union Company's empk ,eforo taking the harbourmaster appoint ni.nl- nt Timani. He was a kindly man tfltodT.ll. Hβ leaves a w.dow our sous, and two daughters Ihe em ■st son is on tho Timaru High bclipo tff °U are at the front (one ha«m ,een recently wounded), and another i. n camp-Press Assn. The death occurred in Auckland yes :erday morning, after an illness ertend ng over several months, of Mi. bidne r Nathan a prominent business man h he norther* Sty. The deceased gentle nan, who was held in very high esteem sul for Sweden in Auckland. The D S 0 has lxsen awarded to Majoi KenneHi MacCormick, N.Z.M.8., on v »> if Mr C ]0. MacCormick, Judge ot tni S Land Court: Hβ was horn i Auckland, and educated at the Pame ,nd Bllerelie Public School and tft Yucldand Grammar School When wa ,roke out he was in his «& J w 'As 3ta"o University as a medical ftuttent niS after passing the special medical ex minat on Tor students offering their ser So the .Government, he enl« ieutenant attached to the Auckum irmiiiPd Eifles He.serred through th Private Percy llawlinson, who has ]us lie,i of wounds received in France, vra 'eI known in tho Wairarapa H Mother George is a prisoner of »ar n l"as weired in Wellington o. iftturdßT by tho parents of PriTßt harlesW. Bowers that he was killed ii e ion somewhere in Franco on Octobc. 7 Private Bowers was the eon of Mr eorgo Bowers, tho well-known contrac or of Lower Hutt, and was horn iVellington. At the time of his deatl 0 was thirty years of age, and dnnnf , ? s school days,he distinguished himeeM, md carried off many prizes both of 6 chol ls tio and athletic nature After servg apprenticeship to the ironmong•rv business in tho employ of Messrs, roim Dnthio and Co., he took up farmng in the Wairarapa distric , /hero v«s well known and respected for Ha nany good qualities. Being a eiugle anf he considered it his duty to throw n his lot with tho "boys" to do he bit. le sold out his farm and enlisted in Hβ L'wentv-second Reinforcements, and ins nany "friends will sympathise with his larenls in their bereavement. Captain P. S. Vamham, who has ;ust ie en P awarded tho Military Cross, is a on of Mr. J. Varnham, late of the lidn°a«on Board, Wellington and now of jevin. Captain Varnham left New 4cifnd as a second Hentenan with th. fourth Heinforcoments, and, particiiated In the Gallipoli campaign. Hβ vas wounded in France on October i. Among those in the last list of. war lecorations is Lieutenant D. P. Duigan, 1 nngest »n of Mrs. James Dmgan, of sonville AVnnganui. He went to tho ront with the Ninth .Enforcements m anuarv, 1916. Particulars of the ncion he was decorated for are not to and but that lie has done good work is hown by the fact that ho has been TrdecHho Military Cross, thus ate o his family's good record, as n "L W" v Maior 11. Duigan, won tho D.b.U. a w'months back ,« m wounded in the head last July, ana uentioned in dispatches.