PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. I'. Maxder, M.P. or Marsden. arrived on a visit to Auckland last nigh» by the Kanieri from Whangarci.

Mr. J. A. Young, M.P. for Wnikato, returned to Hamilton by last evening's express train. He will leave on Tuesday for Wellington to attend the session of Parliament.

Mr. W. Hill, resident Government officer at Rotorua, and .Mrs. Hill, are at present on a holiday visit to Auckland, They leave for Wellington in the course of a clay or two.

The Hon. James Allen, Minister for Defence, left Wellington for Christchurch last night. He will proved to Dunedin to-day (say.- a Pres-s Association telegram i, and probably be back in Well):.g ton 011 Tuesday morning.

Mr. Hugh Wallace, a, well-known commercial traveller, v. ho lor the past 50 years has represented various leading linns, was entertained at 7 hangarei recently on the occasion of his retirement from active service, and presented with a handsome travelling bag.

Mr. ('. H. Palmer, commodore of the New Zealand Power-boat Association, and Mr. A. Burt, a prominent member of the association, will leave for Wellington to-day to hand over to the authorities the gift launch Awhina, which lias been presented to the hospital ship by the Power-boat Association.

Mr. J. F. Hartland, secretary of the, Auckland Racing Club, has received ad-_ vice that his son, Lance-Corporal Clarence F. Hartland, of the 4th, Waikato,Mounted Rifles, who met with an accident at Cair4 early in April durng the review of the colonial troops by General Sir lan Hamilton, has been discharged from the hospital, and is now employed at the base office at Cairo.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wills, of Onehunga. celebrated their golden wedding yesterday, they having been married on June 18, 1865, at Onehunga. Mr. and Mrs. Wills arrived in Auckland in the month of March, 1865, on the ship Bombay. For many years Mr. Wills, who was apprenticed to the sea on the barque Lima, of Dundee, in 1853, was captain and owner of'several vessels trading between; Onehunga and Waiuku.

Captain John F. E. Green, whose ap-j pointment to the command of H.M.S. New Zealand was announced a few days ago, is sixty-third in the seniority list of captains, R.N. He was a midshipman in H.M.S, Aclnlles during the Egyptian war of 1882, and holds the Egyptian Medal and the Khedive's Bronze Star for his services. As lieutenant in command of the gunboat Pigmy he served in the China war, 1900, and was specially mentioned in despatches for his services by Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour. He was promoted commander on January 1, 1801, arid semd in several ships." being annotated to the command of H.M.S. Caledonia (formerly the second-rate ship Im. pregnable), trailing ship for boys, on January 3, 1904. He was promoted captain on June 30. 1906. and was appointed' to the command of the armoured cruiser Essex on September 26, 1911. Since May 14, 1913, Captain Green has been in command of the armoured cruiser Natal. -