PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 174, 25 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram-' reports th* , death of Sir William Ramsey, the*; scientist. ' ,- No; ■appointm.eritr of. '■}&■ permanenfj: ; , snodeteor to Mr P. HalJy,. in the office* of Conciliation Commissioned has \yett been made. ! Mr T. B. Handley, who some years*: ago was editor of The Maklbokougik Express, and afterwards owned a. paper in Southland, has been appointed editor of the: Thames Star. ; To-day's casualty list reports. the* death from wounds ; of. Private Ernesti. j Terrill, son of Mrs Terriii; Panamaj. House, Blenheim. Private Terrilft .was wounded in the soalp and thighs i Private advice lias "been received i». Christchurch that Mr Noel Boss; sow. j of Mr Malcolm Ross, has received ay permanent apopintment on the staflf of the London Times. Mr' Ross " wasbadly wounded on GaJlipoli. Sir Thomas Mackenzie's, term asHigh Commissioner expires during; next .month, but it is understood that, no new appointment is.to be made iw the near future. He will continue* to hold office in the meantime. A Wellington Press Association* message reports the death of Dr S. t P. James, formerly medical superin-* 1 tendent of the Westland Hospital and a leading Wellington practitioner.^, He was aged 69 years. ' Rifleman R. H. Cate, who is reported .to have been wounde-d and isnow in hospital, was employed ati: Messrs Bary and Son's store, Reh- , wick, prior, to enlisting. He is a. married man. A cabler message has been received! by Mr E. Balcombe-Browne, of Wellington, from his son, Captain Rainsford Balcornbe-Brqwne, who statesthat the latter has. been awarded the* Military Cross for destroying ani enemy balloon. , . 5 Mrs Canningtbn, of Waimea Street* Nelson, has received word that herr ■eldest son, Sergt. Harold W. Can-* nirigton, was killed in action on July? 9th. Sergeant Canningion, who was. employed in tiie Nelson, office of .the* \■, Tourist Department, left. New Zealand, with the Main Body, and served! . .-through:the Gallipoli campaign.- Mra-; Canningtoh's second son has, just» f returned, invalided •to NeLson. , ? ; jftfr H. Mi:. Smeeton has been appointed by the National Council off v the V.M.C.A. commissioner in Framcoand elsewhere:. He leaves, at his own expense, on August'B. .Mr-_A., Varney, .secretary of the Associationi - at Wellington, is beting sent by the> Council to Fiance as supei-visoi^ ofi[ the New Zealand field secretsxriesy tinder the controL of . the British) National Council. : ' ■ Captain A. C: ;. Critchley-Salmon-son,,who was on loan to the New Zealand Government at the tiilie of the'outbreak of Avar, and who left with; the Main Expeditionary' Force rts ad--1 jtitatt-fc ■• to the Canterbury Infantry' - Battalion, is how commanding .an EgiTptiari battalion" stationed at Khkrtoiim. with the rank of Bun- : ."bashir. In -his .new command all orders 'are. spoken in Turkish. Hehad been deemed ; unfit for active seri vice', owing V;to a wound received on ! Gallinoli, when the appointment to* ._ the Egyptian Army was offered. .