PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 11 February 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Joseph Ward arrived i\t Wellington yesterday from the south, Cable advice dated February 2 has been received by tho Base Records Office stating that 18,999 Sergt. W. A. Thomas, a New Zealander, serving with the Welsh Fusiliers, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. His next of kin is Mrs. A. Thomas,, 41 Harrison Street, Wanganui. The Rev. Father ,o'Beirne, of Carterton, who has been in charge of the South Wairarapa parish during the past two years, leaves next month for England, where he will take up hospital work in connection with the Church.

Lord Carnock, a director of the London City and Midland Bank, Ltd., has been offered, and has accepted, a scat on the London Board of the Bank of New Zealand. Lord Carnock was created a Baron in 1916; tho Baronetcy was created in 1637. He was Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1910 to 1916, when he retired. He was born in 1849,, and was educated at Rugby and Brasenose College, Oxford, but left before taking his degree. He was in the Foreign Office from 1870 to 1874, during two years of that period being assistant private secretary to Earl Granville; was third secretary to the Embassy at Berlin from 1874 to 1876; second secretary to the Legation at Peking from 1876-7, and at Berlin from 1878 to 1879; second secretary at Constantinople, 187D-84; Gharg» d , Affaires, Athens, 1884-85; lirst socretary and Charge d'Affaires, Teheran, 1885-88; created C.M.G. 1886; ConsulGeneral at Budapest, 1888-93; Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople, 1894; Agent in Bulgaria, 1894-90; Ambassador in Morocco, 1895-1904; H.M. s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Madrid, 1904-5; Ambassador to Russia, 1905-10. He wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and is the author of 'The History of the German Constitution, 18/3. The Very Rev. W. J. Lockington, SJ., who visited New Zealand a few months ago, has been appointed Provincial of the Jesuit Order .in AusThe death is announced n Father Maurice P. Carroll, for twenty years parish priest of Flemington, Melbourne. Information has been received Mr. J. Ziiuan, of Auckland, 'that us son, Mr. S. N. .Ziman, the erst Auckland Rhodes Scholar, has teen gazetted captain in an Indian walry regiment, nnd. appointed to the staft of Brigadier-General Roberts, C.8., at Meerut. Captain Ziman was in tho Indian Civil Service after leaving Oxford. Just before the war broke out he had arranged to visit New Zealand, but was prevented from doing so. He then volunteered to rejoin June Mward's Horse, to which corps he belonged whilst at Oxford, but the Indian Government would not allow cers of its service to leave India. Some two vears ago a request was made ror officers for the Indian Army from the Civil Service, and . Mr. 8. N • L man joined the 35th Send.Horse as i lieutenant. He was stationed _tt Jubbalporc and Kashmir for training. •V cablegram received last week from Lieutenant W. E. Moulds .(2-6 Lancashire Fusiliers) states thatf he armed in London on January 31. after his short visit to Now Zealand on sick The death is announced, at Walton-on-Thames Hospital of a well-known Sounds farmer, Mr. Steve Hams, of Endeavour Inlet. The late Mr. Harris left New Zealand with the lweutysecond Reinforcements, and news received recently stated that ho had been '"gassed" in France. Later advice stated that he was seriously ill at \Yal-ton-on-Thames, and finally news came to his relatives that he had died on February.6, the cau.se being given ae bronchitis. The late Mr. Harris leaves a wife and three children.

The resignation of the Rev. Gr. H. ■Jupp, of Woodlands, and formerly ot Kelso, was accepted at the meeting of the Southland Presbytery last week, owing to his acceptance of the position of assistant minister at Rnox Church, Dunedin. A call to the Rev. Adam Bcgg, of Wallacetown, ami fornterly of 'Japamii, from the . HiglmcM congregation" in the Timaru district, was also by the Presbytery, and accepted by Mr. Begg. Mr Stevenson,, one of the Canterbury Education Board's agricultural instructors, has been appointed agricultural instructor under 1 the Auckland Education Board. At the meeting of the Canterbury Board on Friday Mr. Stevenson's resignation was accepted, and it was decided that ho be thanked for his past services. ■ A SOLDIER'S DEATH e - No. 69,433 Private Leonard Styles, C Company, Thirty-fourth Reinforcements, died in Trentham Military Hospital at 8.30 p.m.. on Thursday last. The certified cause of death was heart failure.