PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A London cable states that Sir Stanley Buckmaster, who was recently raised to the peerage on his appointment as Lord Chancellor, has taken the title of Baron Buckmaster of' Ahlgnot.

Mr David Cunningham, who has been, manager of Okain's Bay cheese factory for a number of years past, is leaving the district in a few weeks' time to~ take up the position of Government.

; Trooper George Cleary, whose death N X.TSb&Kt" popttlar resldeirt °f ■

Mr Basil-Muter, who has iust died, aged 86 years, was one of the earliest, settlers m Canterbury, having arrived] there in 1851.

Trooper A. Diekensen, who is reported to have been killed at the Dardanelles, was, previous to enlistingwith the New Zealand Expeditionary «?& manager of the Hawera branch ot Gibsons Ltd. He was popular with all who knew him. Mrs A. S. Hollo- - way, of Ramanui, Hawera, is a sister - or deceased.

A T\ ellragton message states that Cabinet has confirmed the appointment of Mr A. F Low in the position. of Clerk of the House of Representatives, m succession to Mr OtferSen* who retired last year. * ♦ Dr Noonan, of Manaia, has just w e + n c mi° rmedthat his brother, wh<K left Sydney with the first contrngentof Australians, has been wounded hv the operatums at the Dardanelles.

l«i Ir J°^ i 1^ 11. #<*i suddenljr fc ff T eek whlle in the" train on th«k X £ V*-£ i^esident of " i?°°-V,fe 18i9 he :j?i S Jin «sine& a^ nointed G^vernien-b >Land Vainer :-Henad visited,Awai-ua to value a property, and ran to catch the train, but diedsoon after entering the carriage. Trooper Rupert Nicholls, one of thefamily of Nifenolls, of Inglewood, whowent to the Dardanelles, was somewhat, badly wounded. The last mail brought a letter from him stating that the* wound was a compound fracture of thethigh, occasioned by two bullets, onebemg explosive and the other an or?W* yi. 6t ij J* wa,s not expected^ that he would be able to. leavie thehospital at Cairo, where he now lies, until at least three months, when he. expects to be shiooed■-. home on crutches. "" "•

Corporal Donald Lane, reported kill-: f ' m t at T the Dardanelles, was a Zealand Herald. He was an Auckland? Grammar School boy, studied agr Sd--ture at Lincoln College, and was" ganiwh«n Ui Veymg if s Perien<* at Hamilton, S ? £ he af- bloke^t- He joined theFirst Expeditionary Force as a private but was appointed a corpora! of thL Waikato Company before the .Force* lert.