PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 92, 18 April 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward returns' from the- South to-morrow.

Mr. J. E. Jenkinson was a passenger by the Mararoa this morning froni the South.

Captain Buck (Dr. Te ; Rangihiroa), who left as medical officer of the Maori Contingent,' has taken combatant rank as second in command of the Maori Contingent.

The Rev: John H. White, of Brooklyn, left for the south last evening by the s.s. Maori for Invercargill, and will represent the National Council of Christian Endeavour at the various public functions of the Easter Convention there.

Pte. Herbert Crawford, aged twentyfive, a native of Adelaide, where his relatives reside, died in Victoria Military Hospital yesterday from a complication of diseases, accelerated by a weak heart. He went away with the Main Expeditionary Force, and returned by the Tahiti in September. The body will be interred at Karori to-morrow afternoon with military honours.

Lance-Corporal W. ■J. Hill, who before he joined the Samoan Expeditionary Force and then left for Gallipoli with the sth Reinforcements, was a. member of the newspaper staffs in Wellington and Auckland, has contrived to run some sort of publication wherever this has been possible while serving with the forces. He was the editor-in-chief of The Pull-Thro', a little paper published in Samoa while the first garrison was there. On the troopship going to Egypt he produced another paper. In Gallipoli he was wounded, and invalided to England. He .returned to the front, but was lately in a New Zealand convalescent home in Egypt, called "Aotea." There he has produced another publication entitled "The Aotean." a very creditable magazine which is liberally illustrated.

The James Angus mentioned in a cable message from Sydney last Thursday as 'having been killed I>y a railway accident was well known in Kew Zealand. He was an Auchterarder man. He and his wife came out to the Bluff by the ship Helenslee in 1863. By his great energy and enterprise he became one of the stalwarts of Southland. He was one of the first men to go in for sawmilling on a large scale in that part of the country. As one of the firm of Topbam, Angus, and Smyth he was interested, in important railway con■tracts, notably the line to the Bluff and the line to Kingston. He was, it is said, the first man to set up a stonecrusher in Tnvercargill. He was also connected, through his friend, Mr. T. Brydone, with sheep freezing at Kdendalo. Long prior to that his enterprising nature induced him to visit Hokitika at the time of the rush. That was in the sixties. About 38 years ago he went to Australia, and undertook the construction of a section of the Geelong railway. He became a member of the contracting firm of Mooney, Angus, and Topham. who executed many big works. One was the laying down of some of the Sydney tram lines. The track to Coogee was one of these. He also brought the water into Sydney. He owned the Minchinbury vineyards and sold out to Penfold for £60,000. Ho was a large shareholder in the Linlithgow coal mines, and a director of the Clyde Engineering Company. One way and another he must have been a wealthy man. He paid a visit to New Zealand about three years ago to see his relatives —David Angus (of Waitahuna), Alexander Angus (of Christchureh), and Mrs. Dickinson (of Christchureh), these being his childmn. He also has three nieces in New Zealand—Mrs. David Findlay (of Cargill-street, Dunedin). Mrs. T. C." Harrison (of St. Clair), and Mrs. G. B. Dall (of Wellington). His residence ■was at Rooty Hill, near the station, and it is. considered probable that, as he had to cross the rails to get from his house to the station, he there met his daath. H»' was 61 years old, but *f> active m * youngitsr, , „...._. ,