PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17079, 31 January 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr R. B. Grange arrived from Wellington yesterday. ■ Mr J. Garrard left for Wellington on Saturday night.

Mr W. Reece arrived from the north on Saturday morning. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin announces the death of Mr G. 0. Israel, chairman of the Otago Education Board.

Mr E. N. Armit, formerly of Wellington, and now of the Sydney {'Daily Telegraph" reporting staff, is paving a short visit to relatives in Christchuren prior to joining the Australian Reinforcaments for the war.

Amongst the visitors to Christchurch are Messrs E. Bourne (Auckland), C. Grey (Invercargill), R. Jacke (GisborneL F. W. Stephens and J. J. Millar (Wellington), and E. Dimant (Melbourne and Major D. Dutton (Dunedin).

Mi- John Sheehy, who was in the 18th Rn-'-al Irish Regiment, and. saw service during the Maori war, died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, last week, aged seventy-eight years. He arrived in Auckland with his regiment in 1863.

Mr W. A. Kennedy, manager of, the Union Steam Ship Company, Wellington, has been granted extended leave of absence for health reasons. During his absence, Mr S. K. Sleigh, manager of the Christchurch branch, will act as manager at Wellington. His Excellency Archbishop Cerretti, Papal delegate, left Dunedin on Saturday morning, states a Press Association message, accompanied by Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, and party, f° r Wellington. His Excellency will leave Wellington to-day on a visit to the Thermal Lakes.

Mr Mark Wright, Rangiora, received word on Friday evening that his son, Sergeant Frank R. Wright, who went to the front with the Third Reinforcements in the O Squadron of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, was admitted to the Pont de Koubbeh Hospital on January 25 suffering from frostbite in the feet.

Tlie Rev C S. Buchanan, superintendent off the American Methodist Missions in the Dutch East Indies, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by the Makura on Monday, accompanied by Mrs Buchanan. ■ Before proceeding to Vancouver, on his way to the United States, Mr Buchanan proposes spending a short holiday in New Zealand.

News has been received in ' Christchurch that Mr R. J. G. Collins, who was secretary of the Junior Philatelio Society in Christchurch, and who now is in the Public Works Department, Wellington, passed the matriculation, engineering preliminary, dental medical preliminary and solicitors' general knowledge examinations at the recent university examinations. Messrs Donald Kennedy and James M'Aloon, of the Ashburton railway goods staff, were entertained? by their fellow employees on Friday evening. Mr Kennedy, who is leaving for Trentham camp, was presented with a set of razors and a shaving outfit. Mr M'Aloon, who has been appointed to the position of relieving officer, was the recipient of a fountain pen and pocketbook.

Bv the death on Tuesday of Mrs Samuel Curry, of Robinsons Bay, Banks Peninsula loses another of its old residents. Mrs Curry was a daughter of the late Mr J. P. Muilais, of Akaroa, In 18/8 she. married Mr Samuel Curry, and went to live in Robinson's Bay, where she has resided ever since. She was greatly by all neighbours and[friend* The funeral took place on Friday,.ana was largelv attended. ■;■ . Mr Richard Hartley Cartman, who died at Paeroa, was a very old .set tier in the Ohinemun goldfields district. H« was born at Bingsley, Yorkshire in 1834, and wa< the elder son of the late Rev Dr Cartman. of Skipton. York«Wo Air Cartman arrived in the Dom Win the shin Chapman in 1863, and saw a great deal of active service in the Maori war, having been a scout under Colonels St John and M'Donald. During iate years he followed farming pursuits. ' ■' 4 An instance of rapid promotion is th at of Major F- R. M'Mahon. R.E.. of Wellington, who was a student in the Otago School of Mines some years oeo He enlisted as a trooper in Kmc Edward's Horse, but in January of lasfc vear, before that regiment went +o the "front, he obtained a comrois*ion in an infantry regiment. This was followed in May last by a transfer, with a captaincy, to the Royal .Engineers, in which corps he secured ins majority in October. :«» Mr J W. Davis, formerly of tha New -Zealand Survey Department, has received the appointment df chief draiishtsman to 'fTie Survey Department of Samoa., which, since the occupation of the islands by Britain, has been taken over by tie Imperial authorities, and of which Mr Norman H. M'Donald, another New Zealander, is chief surveyor. Mr Davis was for twenty-one years inspecting surveyor in the New Zealand service. Then he held in succession the positions of chief draughtsman in the offices in Wellington. Christchurch and Auckland whither he came for the purpose of reorganising the Land Transfer Office. Subsequently he became chief draughtsman in the' Wellington district office, nad next in the head office of the Department. About six years ago Mr Davis retired on superannuation, and since then he has been engaged in private surveying in the Rotorua and Hokianga. districts. He will leave for Samoa bv the March steamer.