PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL,

His Excellency tlie Governor arrived in Wellington from Christchurch this morning, , accompanied by Capt. Williams, A.D.C. He will return to the South to-night.

Mr. 11. Heaton Khode6, M.P., was a passenger to Wellington by the Maori this morning. Cn.pt. (temp. Major) B. J. Dudley, N.Z.M.C., has been -appointed Commandant, Awapimi Camp. ..Mr. -S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., of Napier, will arrive iii Wellington .to-night to assist in the military service ballot. Mr. J. i-Ii Gmison, Mayor of Auckland, has acceded to the request of the City Councillors to offer himself for another term. The Very Rev. Father T W. Price, who has been visiting England and France, is expected to reach Wellington from Sydney next Monday. Police Sub-Inspector Mullaney, of Christchurch, formerly of Wellington, is ill, and Sub-Inspector Hastie has gone from Timaru to relieve him. Mr. W. Periy, of the Wairarapa, has been nominated as the Manawatu A. and P. Association's representative on the Board of Agriculture. Mr. H; G. Hill, general manager of the Nelson District Fruitpackers, Ltd., arrived from Nelson last night, and will remain in Wellington until Friday. Major P. B. Greenhough, N.Z. Garrison Artillery, has been attached to the District Staff,. Otagp, and appointed Adjutant (temp), Otago F.A. Brigade. : The Hon.. A. T. Magnmity, M.L.C., arrived in Wellington from Nelson last ■night'to attend a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee called' to deal with.'the. finishing of the new Parliament Buildings. In addition to acting a» manager of tho Southland branch of the United Insurance Company, Mr. S. B. Macdonald will carry out the duties of South Island inspector for the company until the war terminates. ! ■Mr. Joseph Hott was present at yesterday's meeting •■ of the Wellington Society for tdio Prevention .of Cruelty to Animals, for the first 'time since his illness, and was congratulated on his recovery. . Lieut. Colin Campbell, of the Australian Forces, who has been killed in the fighting at Tigris River, Mesopotamia, was a son of Mrs. A. Campbeli,- of Mastertoii, and a brother of Mrs. W. H. Gruickshank and Mrs. O. A. Buniiy, of the Wairarapa.. Capt. J. F. Pullen, Auckland Division, N.Z. Garrison Artillery, has. been .restored to the establishment on relin.quishing the of Quavter--master, with 'seniority dated 23rd ■ February, 1910. Lieut. D.'-W. Bodlo to bo Quartermaster, vice Capt. J. F. Pullen. The New Zealand Institute has placed on record its appreciation of the valuable services to science of Alexander M'Kay, Henry Stiter, and Thomas Brown. A letter is to be sent to them expressing the hope that they may long be spared to enjoy the fruits of their labours in science. . .

Mr. W. H. Montgomery lias been appointed Assistant Director of Base Records, juid to take control thereof in the absence of the Director. The. order of seniority of the officers in charge of Bass Eecotds will be :—(1) Director of Base Records; (2) Assistant Director of Ba-se Records; (3.) Deputy Director of. Base Records. -'' •-■ ■>■ ■ ' Mr. L. C. Travers,; ■ manager 6f the Wellington ; Furnishing Company, has accepted a position on' the . staff, of Messrs. Purser, Ltd., Wanganui. -He will leave this city about Oith February to take up his residence, there. Mr. Travers, who is organiser of the AVellington Furnishing ' Employers' Association, has also tendered his resignation to that body. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who is at present in Auckland, became ill on Sunday, and was unable to deliver a, promised -address at the Unitarian,. Church. He Was confined Ito his room on Monday, and therefore did notj as Chancellor of th© New Zealand Uni-. versity, preside at the* -concluding day's work of the Senate session. He was expected'to be well enough to get aibout as usual yesterday. Mr. C. E. Armit, of Sydney (formerly of Messrs. R. W. Cameron and Co.'s staff, Wellington), who went to the front with the 20th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, arid was Wounded, in tho Batt-lo of the Somme, is now in New Zealand for the_ purpose of receiving treatment for his injury. He is a son of Mr. .J. B. Armit, of Austin-street,: Wellington. Mr, J. B. Armit had ano'tlier son in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who was killed in the. Battle of tho Somme. A. third son, 2nd Lieut. Edward Armit, of the Australian Forces, and a former member of the Evening Post staff, who received his commission after going through, college, lias left for Fra-nce. The death of Sergeant Samuel'Barwell removes a very well-known resident of Christchurch, who was a Crimean war veteran (says the Sunj.v The deceased, who was eighty-four yeaJs of age, had a stirring career. At tho age of sixteen he joined the Army, and in-1851-3 he served in South Africa in the Hottentot and Kaffir Wars. His next campaign was in 1854, when he went to the Crimea. In recounting his experiences at one tinie ho said that his regiment was under' fire for four consecutive months. He participated in the battles of Alma, Likerman, Balaclava, and Sebastopol. The funeral, which, will bo a military one, will take placo to-morrow afternoon at the Linwood Cemetery. Private information has been received of the death in the Randwick Military Hospital, Sydney, of Pte. Frederick M. Marshall, of the 4th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. Pte. Marshall, who was a brother to Mr. Frank Marshall, of Tlie Post's literary staff, was a native of this city. He joined the Australian army at tho outbreak of the war, and was in the -first landing on Gallipoli. Pte. Marshall was buried by a. shell-burst in tho assault on Lone Pine by the Australian First Brigade in August, 1915. Ho was invalided ■to Egypt, and subsequently returned to Australia, where he received his discharge a few months ago. The shock from the shell resulted in heart trouble, and from this he died on the 23rd inst., in Sydney.

Sub-Lieutenant Laurence W. Bell, son of Mr. C. D. Bell,, ex-Mayor of Rangiora, was drowned through the sinking of tlie auxiliary cruiser Laurentie. The Christchurch Sun states that Sub-Lic.itena.nt Bell was born in Wellington twenty-two years ago, and received his education at the Rangiora Primary and High Schools. He was later apprenticed to the Union Steam Ship Company, and on the outbreak of war was third officer on the Waipori. He enlisted in the 3rd Reinforcement, and as a stretcher-bearer saw five months' strenuous service on Gallipoli. At the expiration of that period he was invalided to England, and later served in France. A few weeks ago he received permission to sit, for an examination, and passed for his first mate's certificate. He was then appointed by the Admiralty, with the rank of sub-lieu-tenant, to the Laurentie, which was an ex-AVhito - Siar ■ liner,, converted; for -war