PERSONAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13652, 21 August 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A London cable message states ; that General Sir' Douglas Haig has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order.. "1 The famous aviator Lieutenant Bon- ; nier (.says a Paris cable message), who llew from Paris to Cairo, lias been killed on the Russian front. A London cable' states that Captain Cecil- Humphries of the Highland Light ' Infantry, and who belonged to Christchurch, has been wounded in France. ■ j A Paris report states that Carpentier, I the well-known French boxer, who has. been twice mentioned in Orders of the ] Day, is rgeommemlcd for the Military ; Medal/ • ••■■., Among the list of those proceeding to Hie -front who have been granted com- j missions appears the name of Second- ' Lieutenant Oswald Lovell Fcrens, who is attached to the Mounted Rifles. : ' : Mr J. P. Malcolm.has received a cable stating that his son, Private Leii ; Malcolm, of the hospital ship Maheno, ( who was reported suffering from enteric fever, has-recovered and-is well and ■ in the Horneliurcli camp, A Sydney'cable message states, that among the the professional-men now iu camp; are Private It. J.-McKay, civil engineer, who-is a' •Ncw'Zealander, and' Private J. P. Laikiii, who was formerly ■ a Goyc'rimieiit survpybr'iu the Taranaki district. ' ' ..''. ', A cable message from London says Earl Crewe has been appointed Minister of Education. The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson lias been appointed Pay-master-General in order to free him for the position of Labour adviser. Lord Newton (late Paymaster-General) has .been appointed Assistant Foreign Un-der-Secretary. Word has been received that Corporal J. H, Teinpero,, who was reported wounded sonic time ago, has recovered and returned to the front. Corporal Tciiipero 's wound, which was in the region of' the elbow, was caused by n shrapnel-splinter from a shell which exploded above the. dug-out in whiich he and others were sheltering, and he must, have had a narrow escape from death, for the ■ concussion of the explosion knocked him oiit for some time, while sonic: of the falling debris hit him on the shoulder.