PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17230, 26 July 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Dr Will arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr P. Selig returned yesterday from a visit to Australia.

Mr and Mrs L. L. Melquoin arrived in Christchurch from San Francisco yesterday.

Dr Chilton has been appointed to the New Zealand University Senate as tho nominee of the Professorial Boaro. of Canterbury College.

' A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that probate of the will of the late Mr J. J. Craig was granted yesterday, when the amount of the estate was provisionally sworn at £50,000. Mr B. E. H. Whitcombe, who has been in charge of Messrs Whitcombe a»d Tombs's London branch for some years, will take charge of the new branch in Auckland. He will come by the American route, and will spend some time in the United States, arriving in this Dominion in October. Mr W. Jackman, of the Christchurch staff, has left for London, to succeed Mr Whitcombe there. Captain A. C. Critchlcy-Salmonson, who was on loan to the New Zealand Government at the time of the outbreak of war, and who left with the Main Expeditionary Force as adjutant to the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, is now commanding an Egyptian battalion stationed at Khartoum, with the rank of Bunbashir. In his new command all orders are spokon in Turkish. He was deemed unfit for active service, owing to a wound received on Gallipoli, when the appointment to the Egyptian Army was offered. Information has been received that Captain L. De Lautour-Wells, R.N., nephew of Dr De Lautour, of Wellington, has received the decoration of C.M.G. at the hands of the King. Captain Wells was in command of the Iris in the Egyptian war, and later the Defiance, naval training and torpedo instruction ship at Dovonport, and afterwards succeeded Captain Shaw in charge of the London Fire Brigade. On the

outbreak of war ho was recalled to the Navy, and was given an important appointment in tho North ol Scotland. Later he was transferred to the Mediterranean, where he was Senior Embarkation and Transport Officer at Gallipoli, and in that capacity was responsible for the landing .of men and' stores, and later for the evacuation work. The first New Zealand soldier to win the D.C.M. on Gallipoli, Corporal G. A. Tempany, returned to this Dominion bv the Rotorua last week. H© was a private w the Sixteenth .Waikato Regiment, and took part in the historic landing at Gallipolio on April 25, 1915, and on that day, during the retirement near Gaba Tepe, he showed conspicuous bravery. He advanced under heavy firo to the enemy's line, and carried a wounded comrade back to safety. He remained on the peninsula until near the end of July, when he was invalided to England, and has since been in the hospitals and camps in Britain. He came to Auckland from London about ten" years ago, under an engagement for three years, as la tuner, with Mr G Richardson, piano importer. Since the expiration of that engagement he was in business on his owu account. Upon the outbreak of war he volunteered, and was posted to the Sixteenth (Waikato) Company. Private D. G. Pritchett, son of the Rev P. H. Pritchett, of Mount Som'ers, who went to Gallipoli and returned to New Zealand badly wounded in both arms, is at present in hospital in London. Recently Mr 0. W. Nicoll received an interesting letter from a friend in London, who says:—"l found young Pritchett at King Edward VII. Hospital, which is for officers only, but, thanks to Dr Ainger, who is one of the actiug-surgeous on the staff, Private Pritchett was allowed to be taken in as the Walton-on-Thames Hospital was quite unsuitable for his case; it is so far away for specialists such as Sir Arbuthnot Lane. It is quite cheering to see what good progress has been made in so short a time. An operation has been performed by Sir Arbuthnot Lane on Pfitchett's right wrist, and a piece of bone taken from Ins leg and put into the right arm. Private Pritchett told me that he is going on well, and can use his left hand for many light things " 'When Private Pritchett left New Zealand for England he could not use either arms or hands. Later advice received from tho High Commissioner is to the effect that he is progressing splendidly.