PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16013, 3 September 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Me. E. W. Alison -was a passenger fop 3 's' the South by last night's Main Trunk 1 express. v, •■■•:--< : .<i^j,<\^

Dr. E. D. Aubin, -who is leaving for Egypt shortly, returned from Wellington by yesterday afternoon's Main Trunk express.

Mr. George Elliot returned from Wellington and Dunedin by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning, his visit to the South having been in connection with th-s Aliens Commission.

Mr. R. H. Phelan. who has been engaged in the timber-milling industry for many years, has been appointed general manager for the Tanranga Rirnn Oompanv. He will leave on Mondav to take up hi.<= residence in Tauranga. "

The Bishop of Melanesia, Dr. C J Wood, will not leave to-day with the mission steamer Southern Cross. On the * dvlc f of his surgeon he is remaining in Auckland to undergo an operation to his ear, and will afterwards proceed to the Islands via Sydney.

The Rev. W. Grigs, Methodist minister at Leeston, Christchurch, has received a message stating that a substitute was required for Chaplain Captain Luxford. who has been wounded at the Dardanelles and asking if he would accept the appointment. .Mr. Grigg replied in the affirmative.

The death of Mr. Alfred R. Macdonald solicitor, of Waverley, occurred at a private hospital in Wanganui yesterday morn ing. A few days ago Mr. "Macdonald was the victim of a motor accident, in which he received serious injuries, and the com plicatisns arising therefrom necessitated the amputation of one leg. Mr. Macdonald, however, was too weak to recover from the shock. Deceased was chairman of the Waverley Town Board and secretary of the Wanganui Hunt Club.

Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., has received a cablegram from his son, Lieutenant Harold Jennings, of the Imperial Roval Field Artillery force, stating that he wjs to leave England to-day, and would mert his brother, Sergeant Jennings, of the Ne-s-Zealand Expeditionary Forces, who is in hospital at Malta, " suffering from enteric. Mr. Jennings's other son, Edgar, was recently killed in the trenches in Gallipoli, through a bomb thrown from one of the Turkish trenches. The three soldiers mentioned were born in Auckland.

Mr. H. W. Lawson, who has been acting-manager for the National Bank of New Zealand in Auckland since the appointment of Mr. D. W. Duthie as general manager, has been advised that hia appointment to the position has been confirmed by the board of directors in London. Mr. Lawson entered the service of the bank as a boy in Wellington, and has been continuously associated with it, occupying, the positions of assistant-accountant and accountant in Auckland;''under Mr. J. H. B. Coates, now a member of the London directorate, and Mr. Duthie. Mr. T. H. Easdown has been promoted to the position of accountant.