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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9075, 21 June 1915, Page 3

Mr Win. Mikkelson,. manager for Lw. Jan anti Mischel Chexniavsky. has arrived in Wellington to make necessary arrangements for. in farewell season of this famous trip prior to their depar.u-e for America. .' . ,

At the: lost meeting of tbe Wellington Accountant Students' Society it was announced that Mr H. A. Cuniimgham, A.1.A.N.Z., had been invalided homo from Egypt on tho eve of iho departure! of the troops for the' Dardanelles. A resolution, was passed wishing- him a speidv recovery. The death occurred suddenly on Saturday afternoon .of Constable George Fraser, of Pongaroa. Deceased joined tho police foroe. in 1905,, . and . three months ago was transferred drom imakoii road. The : cause of death was heart failure. The late . constable leaves a wife and five young children. Amongst the passengers wlio arrived on . board the Maitai from San Francisco yesterday was Mr E. J..Greenstreet, who, after a. r lengthy absence' of twenty-two years, has returned, from Canada to New Zealand. Mr Greenstreet; who originally came from . Christchurch, and is a cousin of Captain. Greenstreet, of the Remuera, informed a "Times” reporter that 75 per cent, of the American people were strongly on the side of the Allies. There was a well-organised German section. of the American community, but these were easily

Mr Janies Freyberg, of Wellington, whose 'son, Lieutenant • Oscar ireyberg, was killed in the Dardanelles, has received messages of sympathy from the Prime Minister and Mrs Massey, the Mayor of Wellington, and a number of sports bodies with which her son was connected. She has also received the following cable from the Keeper of the Privy Purse“ The King and Queen deeply regret the loss yon and the Navy have sustained, by the death of your sou in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise', .with you in your sorrow-.”

A presentation of a gold-mounted cigarette case and holder has been made b.v the executive council .'of the, National Reserve to Mr is. F. Dawson, stationmaster at.. Wellington. In making the presentation, the chairman of the committee (Mr G. A. Troup) referred to the splendid work done by Mr Dawson and his fellow delegates—Messrs Wills and O’Loughlin as organisers of the railway national reserve. In. replying, Mr Dawson said that in their tour; of the railways, of forty-six days, as organising delegates, they had addressed--57 meetings and -3154 • members, visited 33 branches, inaugurating 20, and • travelled 3322 miles. The death occurred on Friday of Mr John Maystnor, an old settler of Wellington province, at his residence, 40, Grove road. He was seventy-five years of ago. and arrived | in . the ship, Melita. in 1869. He was connected with the early settlement of Feilding by the Manchester Block Corporation- Since ; 1886 he had lived in 'Wellington. Deceased’s wife, the eldest daughter of the late Major Durie, of Wanganui, and five children, Messrs C. L., P, H. and A. L. .Maysmor, Mrs Harold Hunter (Thames), and Miss Ida Maysmor, survive him.