PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 15 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

ilrs C. Oi'te, of Halifax street, -has Toceived word 1 that her .bVoihcr-in-kiw. Pi'i•vate IT- A. Cato (late of Mwcliiisoil) has been wounded- and admitted to hoapit-til on 31st 'October. Messrs R. J. Rojht "ml N. \ of the clerical staff -of the Anchor •ping and Found>ry Company. \> ! ;.) .•••■l'l with the Nelson draft of the Twentythird Reinforcements yesterday, were; each presented with wristlet watches by the firm prior to their departure. A cable received the other day states' that Private Arnold 11- .Edwards, of Lower Montere, Nelson, who was reported wounded on October Ist. is in 3rd hospital London. He was •wounded: in the back and is progressing favourably. Mr W. S. Hampson has received word that his son. Corporal George Hampson, who -was seriously wounded on Gallipoli,. has now returned to the firing line for the third time. The death occurred at Diniedin to-dav of Mrs D. C. Cameron, well-known through the Dominion as an active worker in* the Temperance cause, and especially in the Good Templar Order. Mr W. W. Cook, Deputy. .RegistrarGeneral' and 'Chief Clerk ,of the Regis-trar-General's Department, has hw.ii appointed Registrar-General, vica Mr Mansfield, retired''on stiperanr nation owing to ill health.—-Press. Association. Mr E. J. AllenV manager of the . Bank of New Zealand, has received: a vei-y interesting letter from his son Corporal Ken. Allen, written from the trenches in France. Cornol'al Allen at of. writing, was well, and,had taken'part in heavy fighting. He .said' it-was marvellous how the British '. troops; had driven the Germans out of the strong positions they held prior to July. The trenches, lie' say.-*, were in. many, cases furnished like homes, and it was evident that; the Germans; had intendedwinteiv ing there, hut they will now;' winter where the Allies want- them " tpi ?; ;H» states that the New'', Zealanderk.ha\*e repeatedly been''officially complimented,on their achievements, and,his battery particularly so- on tho accuracy of its'shoot, ing.. Corpora,! Allen, who is with tho artillery, pays a high compliment to-the infantry. ,He has seen them in the most trying 'circumstances, but there vere no | complaints or grrtmblings. |