PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Justice Stringer returned to Wellington from the South this morning. Sergeant Downie Stewart was a passenger by the Mararoa from Lyttelton to-day. L.-Cpl. Luke, who will leave with the 7th Reinforcements, is a son of the Mayor of Wellington. Bishop Averill is on a visit to Wellington, having come to see his son, who is a lieutenant in the mounted section of the 7th Reinforcements. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Donnelly, of Hawkes Bay, are staying at the Hotel Cecil. They came here to say good-bj r e to their son, W. H. Claude Donnelly, who is going to the front. Commissioner Hodder, accompanied by Mrs. Hodder, left for the Auckland district yesterday, and, after conducting meetings in the North, will return to Wellington on Thursday next. Advice has been received in Wellington stating that the death occurred suddenly, at Timaru yesterday of Mr. F. Rosewarn, managing director of Weeks, Ltd., printers and publishers, of Christchurch. Chaplain-Capt. W. M'Lean, formerly minister of the Soroervill Memorial Church, who is to succeed the late Chap-lain-Major Grant in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has arrived in Wellington. Mr. J. Pearce Luke, of Hataitai, eldest son of the Mayor, and district manager for Messrs. J. J. Niven and Co., will leave, with Mrs. Luke, on Monday next on a health-recruiting trip to England. Mr John Coradine, solicitor, of Masterton, was yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Chapman, on the motion of Mi-. Martin Luckie, as a barrister of the Supreme Court. Mr. Coradine is at present at Trentham, holding the rank of corporal in the Rifle Brigade ("Earl of Liverpool's Own"). Private advice has been received in Wellington that Captain 0. R. F. Johnston, son of the Hon. C. J. Johnston, M.L.C., was wounded, though not dangerously, in the big offensive on 30th September. Captain Johnston was with v the Middlesex Regiment. He is now in hospital in London, and making good progress. Mr- F. J. R. Heath, a draughtsman in the Public Works Department, who came to Wellington to spend a few days with relations at Karaka Bay before going into camp at^Trentham, wa*,the victim of the motor-car-motor-cycle collision in Courtenay-place on Wednesdayy his leg being fractured. He is in Wellington Hospital, and is getting along nicely. Captain G. P. Evans, master of the ferry steamer Duchess, is proceeding to England shortly in order to offer his services to the Admiralty. At a quarter past 5 o'clock on Monday evening he will receive a presentation from residents of the Eastbourne district and others who patronise the service. An invitation to be present is extended to all Captain Evans's friends. Last evening during the supper adjournment in the House of RepresenU' tives several members made a presentation to Lieut. George Massey (son of the Prime Minister) and Mr. W. E. Anderson (son of Mr. G. J. Anderson, M.P. for Mataura), both of whom were recently married. The presentation to Lieut. Massey (who leaves for the front shortly) was made by the Hon. James Allen, and the Prime Minister made the presentation to Mi-. Anderson. Cpl. Percy F. Kelly, Main Expeditionary Force, whose death at Mudros, from pneumonia following upon wounds received at the Dardanelles., has been reported, was' well known in Wellington athletic circles, having been a member of the Oriental Football Club, and for several years was manager of Messrs. George and George's Newtown business. He was born at Christchurch. in 1879. He served in South Africa during the Boer war as a member of the 9th New Zealand Contingent. Private Arthur J. Davies (New Zealand Medical Corps, reported to have died of dysentery at Mudros) was a son of Mr. George Davies, at one time senior partner of the Christchurch firm of Davies and Lamb. Private Davies was born in 1883, and educated at the Normal School. He served his tide in the engineering profession at Messrs. P and D. Duncan, and subsequently went to sea. Lately he was fanning with hrh father at Waimate and Hamilton. He enlisted with the 3rd Reinforcements. Mr. L. Keith, manager of the Taranaki Petroleum Company, had bis motorcar smashed up on Wednesday evening, and narrowly escaped losing his life. He was returning from Moturoa, and when just near the store the wheels of his car caught the team rails, which at this point are above the level of the macadam, and in an instant the machine skidded and somersaulted, landing in the fence on the side of the road, and just missing a telegraph post. Mr. Keith was thrown clear, the only injury he sustained being a bruised arm.