PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 15 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

In tho casualty list issued last nigh 1 the following district, namps appear;— * Died from wounds. May 9; Albert R. Murray, Balfour. Hospital report:— Seriously ill: A. Thomson, Gore; Not severe case: Corporal A. T. Johnston, Maitland. . .. 'Among the' returned soldiers hy yes-torday's"ekpiA-.ss'bi tas 'Rifleman Thomas L . Mcßride, Charlton (7th ReinforceniMit'O; I Private .Jack Walker, Wendon. (27th t ’Reinforcements); and Private Kean, 3 Waikaka; Rifleman Munro, of Mataura, a arrived by today's- express. The following changes in the tele- * graphic staff have been decided upon;— . Mr E. A. Shrimptou, present Telegraph Engineer for the Wellington district, 3 succeeds Mr J, Orchiston, as Chief Telc- . graph Engineer, Mr T. Buckley, Chief - Electrician, becomes Director of tele- . phone services. M.r A. Gibbs, Telegraph > Engineer. Auckland district. Comes to ] Wellington as assistant Chief Telegraph , Engineer. Mr C. S. Plank, Telegraph . Engineer, Christchurch, succeeds Mr . Gibbs at Auckland.' Mr H, L. . Cum- , iniugs, assistant Engineer, Wellington, . succeeds Mr Shfimpton, as Telegraph ] Engineer, Wellington district. Mr E. * C. Page, assistant Engineer, Auckland, t succeeds Mr Plank at Christchurch. ■ . The death of Mr John GriPdley, of J Weliingion,, and formerly of Gore. ■is . announced. Mr .Griudley, who was about . . (57 years of age, Avas for many yeaps ono. . of f iu* best known and n'.ost popular . residents at • Dunavrvi. At one time ho fc kept the Southland Hotel at Gore, but ■ it Avas probably, iijl connection stock and he was best knowp. Foi a time, ho filled * the position of auctioneer for the Farmers’ Agency Company at Dunedin, and subsequently lie filled a similar position with.Messrs Donald Reid and Co. He . was one of the founders of the Otago Farmers* Co-operative Association, and, was the first auctioneer in the service' of (hat company. He went to Johan- . nosburg shortly after the Boer war, and remained' in South Africa for about seven years. A private cable Jjas been received. at Now Plymouth stating that MajorGeneral R. 11. Davies died suddeulv. He commanded . a brigade in Lord French's First Army in the present war. Richard Hutton Davies, C.8., practised as a surveyor at Taranaki, and passei through the ranks of the Hawera Mounted Rifles to captain, He was captain of a. North Island company in the First . Contingent in the South African war, in which lie served in five contingjn'.s, being breveted as lieutenant-colonel in 1902. On his return to New Zealand he was. appointed to the command M the Auckland military district, and in 1906 was made Inspector-General (being li.cn•» gazetted as eojonel), and appointed third,, member of tho Military Council. He was in England (in command of the ftn Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, with temporary rank of brigadier-general) on the outbreak of Avar, and was despatch: ed to Prance, . where he again* so umd f mention in despatches for meritorious n’lie death of Mr James Gordon Bonnott, proprietor of* the Ttork Herald’ is notified by a New* York cable-, gram. Deceased was "born in 1811, and took control of the 'Herald’ on his father’s death in 1872. Of an enterprising nature he Avidely extended the inHuenee of his great paper, and established Loudon and Paris editions. Mr Gordon Bennett .inaugurated the publication of storm warnings in England transmitted from the United States; at. his own expense sent Henry Stanley to Africa to find Livingstone (1874-7); fitted put the Jeannette Polar Expedition; established’ the Commercial Cable Company : amongst other yachting exploits won the yacht race from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wigh/. iu 186(1; latterly took a. keen interest ilwfjaviation aud\, inaugurated the famous Gordon Bgjfuett aviation, trophy in 1009, when- ■ft' was won by 'Clem Curtiss, and in subsequent veers by Graham e-White, Weymaun, Vedines- and Provost, but the competitions have since been suspended owing to the war. .In latter years Be baa £o* ul ’d ’ largely in Paris. He married the Baroness de Reuter (formerly a M lfiS hitter, of about four years since wh.cn. 'ho was 73 years of age.