PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Walter Buchanan,'M.L.C., is to be entertained by. six school districts, in Wairarapa, 'to mark his 3. years' service on the Wellington Education Board. Lieutonant C. 0. Marsack, who was wounded at the Somme on 16th September, is a son of Sub-Inspector Marsack, of ■ Palmerston North. Councillor M'Kenzie, of Petone, ha_ received information of the death of his nephew Private W. E. M'Kenzie, killed in action in France. Private M'Kenzie was born in Petone. Captain J. L. Turnbull, 3rd Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade, has been wounded at the front, and is now in Dorking Hospital. He is well known in Christchurch, where his wife resides. Mr. E. Sunley, hon. treasurer of the Karori Bowling Club, who has been seriously ill for some weeks past, has now nearly recovered, and hopes to be on the green at the opening of the season on Saturday nest. Two members of the executive of the Wellington Branch of the Navy League, Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Hall and Captain R. L. Evatt, as well as a number of members of the league, are serving at the front. Advice has been received that Sapper James P. Daly, son of Mr. M. Daly, of Wright-street, has been wounded while fighting in France. He left with the Australian Forces some months ago, and was an old Marist Brothers' schoolboy. Captain S., Tremewan, who has.been reported as killed in action in France, was for some time engaged in the training camps in England, but was recently, with a picked company of one hundred men, delegated for special duty at the i front. He was a native of Wanganui. I Capt. P. A. Elder, among.Jbh.ose New Zealanders wounded on the Somme, is a son of Mrs." Elder, of Aurora-terrace, Wellington. He was educated at the Wangartui Collegiate School, and enlisted as a private. He passed rapidly through the non-coT_rnissioned ranks, and finafly won. his captaincy for services in the field. - Captain John Bosley Bennett and 2nd Lieutenant Raymond Arthur Bennett, who are reported to have been -wounded in France on l'6th September, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bennett, of Palmerston Nonth. Both are in it-he Rifle Brigade. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett's three sons are at the front, and all have got commissions.

Mr. William John Russell, a wellknown, resident of .New Plymouth, died on Sunday, aged sixty-two years. Ho was a brother of the late Mr. J. J. Russell, a fine steeplechase rider in the 'eighties, and part owner of the great performer Wa-iuku. Mr. Russell's father was killed in the historic fight with the Maoris at Te. Ngutu-o-te-manu.

Lieutenant C. S. Geddis, of the 3rd Machine Gun' Company", New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who is reported ito have been wounded in France on 16th September, is the second son of Mr. W. J. Geddis, editor of the New Zealand Tinles. He has cabled announcing his arrival at Oxford, " safe and happy," -with, a bullet wound in the leg. Before ho enlisted Lieutenant Geddis was a member of the literary staff of the Napier Daily Telegraph.

On the assembling of the members of the Wellington Stock Exchange for tho morning, call to-day, a resolution of sympathy was proposed and passed and ordered to be conveyed to Mr. D. T. Stuart* and family, expressing the deep sympathy of loss and the profound regret of the members of the Exchange- at the death,, in action, of Mr. A. Meliss Stuart. As a mark of respect the meeting thereupon adjourned the usual transaction of business.

The folWing have been, appointed representatives from tho- Christchurch Presbytery to Assembly in Wellington, states the Outlook : Ministers—Revs. Dr. Erwin, J. Paterson, A. T. Thompson, J. S. Reid, J. A. Brown, S. E. Hill, J. J. Bates, W. H. Howes, John Watt, F. Ride, and'- C. Murray. . Sessions to be represented :—Knox, St. Andrew's, St. Paul's, St. Peter's, Dunsandel, Lincoln, Lyttelton, Malvern, Waiau, Waikari. The Presbytery further appointed the following on the Assembly's committees : Bills and Business, Rev. C. Murray; Committee on Standing Committees, Rev. Dr. Erwin ; Assembly Expenses and Collections, Rev. J. J. Bates; Commissions and Records, Eev. S. E. Hill.

Lieut. W. N. Masefield, of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, reported wounded during the Sommq.offensive, was one of the best-known rifle' shots in the Dominion. He won the Championship Belt at the New Zealand Bisley in 1914, and still holds the title. He was always recognised as a good shot, and when the United Service Match was inaugurated he was one of the first to be' selected. He has fired in every United Service Match,, and his score of 104 out of a possible 105 at 200, 500, and 600 yards, still stands as a record on the Trentham range. As an individual shot he had many good performances, not the least being his 101, 93,, and 47 made at the Dominion Rifle Association's championship meeting. Five years ago Masefield visited the Bisley meeting, where he got into most of the prize-lists, won a grand aggregate medal, and secured the King's Badge for getting in the final hundred of the King's Prize Match. Lieut. Masefield has three Empire matches to his credit, two in Australia and one in New Zealand. In* the latter he wa_ the highest in the match, and was high up in Australia. * Lieut. Masefield is also an excellent gun • shot and a first-class golf player. He left New Zealand in September last with the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade.

Captain Lancelot S. Jennings, who was killed in action on 15th. September, was born at Takaka, Nelson, about 1889. He was the second son of the Rev. Chas. Jennings and a grand-nephew of the late Sir John' Jennings, England. His mother was a daughter of the late Rev. T.~S. Grace, who for many years, in the early times, was Church of England missionary at Pukawa, Lake Taupo. Captain Jennings was educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University College. He distinguished ■ himself at both places, taking his degree in due course, and was runner-up for the Bhodes scholarship on one occasion. He became science master at Waitald High School, and while there enlisted and went to the war as a lieutenant in one of the early reinforcement drafts.. He soon rose to the rank of captain in the Otago Infantry Battalion. He was a first-class cricketer, and played for Nelson College and Canterbury "University College in many an inter-college and. inter-varsity match, and was alio a good tennis player. He has nine cousins on his mother's side and several on his father's sidei at the front in France. One cousin, the late Lieutenant T. P. M. Grace, of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, well known to Wellington football and cricket players as "Hami," was killed in action, at Sari Bair on Sth August, 1915. Captain Jennings leaves a widow, a sister of Captain Cross, of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, and formerly a master at the Wellington College. Mrs. Jennings lives at Timaru. Nicer, Better Drinks are obtained by adding Wai-Rongoa Natural Mineral Water to wine, spirits, milk, *i etc. WaiRongoa enhances the flavour and imparte beneficial qualities.—Advt. Every chemist and store sells Martin's Apiol Pills in New Zealand. See the signature, Wm. Martin,, . Southampton, England, is on each bottle.—Advt. For Chronic Chest Complaints, .■■_Wo^d6.WGrfiat.P.eppermint,.Cure;r^A!btji.