PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3012, 5 August 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr AY. S. Short is gazetted a.s Permanent Head of the Public Works Department. Lieut.-Colonel J. Gethin Hughes, C.M.G., who recently returned from England, is about to go to Rotorua to recuperate. ilr A. A. Prcccc, who died at AVhangarei a few days ago, aged .72 years, wa.s a son of the first Anglican missionary among the-M.aoris at Coromaiidel, and a brother of Captain Preece, of Palmerston North. The many friends of Mr and Mrs Wm. Mills, late of Cheltenham, now of Napier, will regret to learn of tho death yesterday of their second daughter, Miss Florence Maude Mills. She is to bo buried in the Feilding cemetery. The death is reported from London of Sarah McNauglttan, the authoress. She wrote, amongst other novels. "Tbe Expensive Miss dv Cane" and "A Lame Dog's Diary." She was a holder of the Belgian Order of Leopold. It is reported that Sir Roger Casement's brother Tom has been fighting with great clash and gallantry in the East African lighting under General Smuts. He is senior lieut. of the 7th South African Infantry. Mr Walter F. Frear. ex-Governor of Hawaii, who i.s making a holiday trip to Australia, will also take in ~Sew Zealand ou bis refeyn voyage. Mr Frear, who i.s accompanied by his wife and daughter, i.s President of the "Hands Around the Pacific" movement. Lieut. Ritchie (killoti in action) wa* secretary of the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., Dunedin. He underwent a surgical operation in order to fit himself for active service, and on proceeding to England obtained a commission in. the Seaforth Highlanders, with whom he went to Mesopotamia. He was married in England after obtaining his commission. Mrs Chamberlain, who has married again, was the late Mr Joseph Chamberlain's third wife, whom he married in 1888. She was the only daughter of AY. C. Endicott, late Judge of the Supreme Court. Massachusetts, and a lineal descendant of the first Governor of the colony of Massachusetts The Rev. AY. 11. Carnegie, the bridegroom, is rector of St. Margaret's and Canon of AVcstminster, is 56 years of age. Professor J. Macniillaii Brown returned to Sydney on July 24 from bis visit to the Gilbert and Ellice Group (pursuing his hobhv, the " whence of tho Maori), and, leaves for New Zealand in tlio' v on August 17. Professor Brown had a vorv enjoyable trip; the Deputy-Commis-sioner went round all the islands with him. so that he saw "and investigated all the matters in which ho .is specially interested