PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17030, 3 December 1915, Page 11

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Ward arrived in Dunedin from Southland last evening, and will come on to Christchurch by tho second express to-day. Captain Cross arrived from tho north yesterday. Air G. H. Scales arrived from Wellington yesterday. * Messrs J. O. Mad’dison and J. Jamieson left for Wellington last night. i Messrs Norman M’lntosh and A. H. Milos arrived from tho north yesterday.

Mr C. W. Jones, manager of the Huddart-Parker Line, arrived from tlio north yesterday.

Dr Truby King, director of. tho Seacliff Mental Hospital, arrived m Christchurch last night. Private advico has been received in Ashburton from London that Lieu-tenant-Colonel John Fmdlay, 0.8., recovered from his wounds. Mr W. lleece loft Christchurch last evening to attend tho annual race directors of tho Bonk ot New Ze . > which will ho held in Wellington today.

Sister Wilkie, of Dunedin, arrived in Christchurch last evening, and vent on to Wellington to join the Mararoa, on which sho will serve as a niiUta 3 nurse.

Lance-Corporal E. G. Sargmson, of Timariij. who left with tho Mam Bod and was wounded at tho landing a Gaba Tepe r is returning to New Zealand by tho Ruahino as “ permanently unfit.”

A Press Association message from London states that Mr R. W • L'jU*■!?”> of tho Board of Trade, succeeds Mr W - G. Wickham as Trade Commissioner to New Zealand, Mr W ickham having been appointed to South Africa. Chaplain-Lieutenant-Colonel Burton, who will join the hospital ship Marania, left for Wellington last night. A company of Boy Scouts formed a guard ot honour to him at the railway station, and a number of purishioneis ot >- Michael’s Church attended at the p atform and cheered him as the train Jett for Lyttelton. Miss Petersen, masseuse, .loft Christchurch lasjt evening to join tho hospital ship Mnra.ma, having been appointed by tho Government to organise a massage service in with tho New Zealand hospitals in Egypt. Miss Petersen, who received a throe years’ training at the Massage Institute in Copenhagen, was afterwards for five years and a half with Dr Robert Jones, the celebrated surgeon at Liverpool, who shortly after the outbreak of war was appointed Chief Orthopredic Consultant to the British Forces. Miss Petersen holds high credentials from Dr Robert Jones, and had a large practice in Christchurch, whero she has made many personal friends. Sho hopes to return iu about six months’ timo after accomplishing her mission. The only living survivor in New Zealand to-day of the “ Old Black Cuffs” (H.M. 58tli Regiment) is Mr Free, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday in New Plymouth lately. Mr Free came with the regiment to Auckland in 1845. and took part in Hekc’s war at the Bay of Islands that year. He settled down to farming pursuits after his discharge at Taranaki, and saw service in the war there in 1350-8 as a lieutenant in the Taranaki Militia. Lieutenant Free’s recollections of the Maori wars bear out Captain Bridge’s diary of the disaster at Oliaeawai (now in tho Auckland Public Library), when 127 men were out of action in seven minutes after tho order was given to attack tho pa. Lieutenant Free, in an interview with Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., sa*id very few of the officers and men left New Zealand in 1858, when the regiment was ordered home, and lie thought fully 1500 men out of the regiment remained in the North Island. Some became successful farmers, two were directors of tho Rank of New Zealand, one was first Superintendent of Auckland, and others were members of the Provincial Councils, and the Parliament of New Zealand, two being Ministers of the Crown. Tho 58th men, in tlio early days of Auckland, could put a man in or out. of public life. The colours of tho 58th Regiment aro in the vestibule of the Auckland Free Public Library.