PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9156, 23 September 1915, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Colonel Powley r r(ul Mrs Powlcy were passengers to Wellington yesterday by the second Main Trunk express. Lance-Corporal Frank Shoppard, of Featherston, 'Wainuupa, is a prisoner of war in Constantinople. Mr J. Cable, of the Union Company's local ofiice, is under orders to join tho reinforcements at Palmerston Nor.h liiis week.

The well-known local pianist", Mr Baxter Buckley, will kavo New Zealand in a short while on an extended visit to tho Old Country. Sir Charles Bowen, Sir George McLean, and Sir George Clifford uTrived in town yesterday morning from the south by the Maori.

The general manager of the Tourist Department, Mr ]?. M. Wilson, has gone on departmental business to the Mount Cook Hermitage. Passengers by the Main Trunk expresses to Auckland yesterday included Mr and Mrs Fenwiek. Messrs A. .1. Rutherford, F. 11. Smith, W. Goss, Atkinson and Ward. Mrs and Mrs Peck, Mr and Mrs MacLaren, Messrs Jacobs (2), Paterson and ,1. H. Brodio arrived in the capital eitj yesterday by Uie first express from tho north.

Visitors to Wellington who registered yesteiday nt the Umpire Hotel are Messrs W- E. Shacklock (Dunedin), JAllen (Gisborne), J. W. liayden (New Plymouth), and J. F. Thorntin 05ydnoy).

Aboard the second express from Auckland, which arrived in "Wellington yesterday, were (Mr and Mrs Carney, Messrs Metcalfe, "W. N". and N. G. Somerville, J. R. Reed, Hayden, .1. F. Thornaon, and J. C. Lord.

Captain T. B. Sewell, late of the Kani (ex Holmdale) took command of the Komata yesterday, in place of Captain W. J. Carey, who awaits orders. Captain John E. Page, late mate of the Kaitangata, is now master'of the Karu. Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C, who has been conferring with the executive of the Auckland Patriotic and War Belief Association regarding the question of the unification of patriotic funds, returned to town yesterday via the Main Trunk.

Major C. Guy Powlcs, of the Headquarters' Staff (Mounted Rifles), is among the list of wounded. Major i'owles was for some years manager of Messrs Isbister ajid Co.'s timber yards at To Horo, and for a considerable time resided with his wife and family at Otaki, where he is well known.

Sir Francis Bell, in the Legislative Council yesterday, conveyed from the Hon. J. Duthie that gentleman's thanks to members for their' kindly inquiries after his health. It was announced that Mr Duthie hopes soon to b« able to resume his attendance at the Council

Mrs W. Benge.. a very old resident of Greytown, died on Monday. The deceased was ninety-five years of age. and arrived in Wellington forty-ono years ago. She left thres children (Messrs' Henry and William Benge, of Greytown, and Mrs Wayland, of Kalgoorlie, Australia). At ltst nighv's, meeting of the Wellii gtou Football Association, a vote of svviputhv was recorded for transmission to the relatives of it. Wells and W. S.iigletcn, who have been 'killed in action at the Dardanelles. Both men were strong supporters of the "soccer" code, tho former being a member or :ae Corinthian Club and the latter o-' the Ucsi.-ital.

Among those reported .missing at the front is Corporal iX R. B. 'La<;.celles, 01 ihe Wellington Battalion. He is a son oi' Mr Henr_y Lascelles. of Greenmeadows, near Napier. Prior to joining tho Main Expeditionary Force he was in business at Hastings, bein.3 an accountant by profession. His brother, Captain E. AV. Lnscelles. of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, is .?. staff officer at Gallipoli. Lieutenant Michael Lyons, who is reported, as being slightly wounded, ' and who disembarked at Malta on September 10th. wag known in Otaki, being a nephew of Dr I'owor, who resided there for a number of years. On joining the Artillery he vapidly worked onward, anxl ■whoa war broke out he was one of tho first to enlist. It was not long bofore he was appointed a lieutenant. One of the non-commissioned officers on loan from the British Army to the New Zealand Government —Sergeant-, Major Francis Hanilen Norris, of the Canterbury Mounted Regiment has been killed in action. lie was >born at Bodforrl-on-Avon, iin Wilts-hire, joined the '1 loyal Horse Guards in 189 b, and -served, in the South African AVav under Generals French and Broadwood, holding the Queen's Medal with three clasps. Mr Stanley Hall, who is reported to havej died of wounds received, while fighting at the Dardanelles, was tho fourth son of Mr Archibald Hall, at one time licensee of the Railway Hotel at Otaki. Stanley Hall for some time resided with his parents, then took up propeitj at Ohau, which he relinquished to join his father in. a coaching business between Canterbury arid the AA 7 est Coast.

Visitors to Wellington at present who are staying at the Hotel Bristol include: Mr and Mrs Paul (Sydney), Mr and Mis T. C- Kennedy (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Mcintosh (Westport), Mr and Mrs Taylor (Uisborne), Mr and Mrs Prout (Lunedin), Messrs S. AVilson (Auckland;, 'l. Tuekey (.Climtchurch), C. Morris-Smith (Cnristchurch), G. Bentley (Dunodin), and G. Jackson (Gisborne). Private 11. Marter, of the Bth Australian Battalion, who was recently decorated with the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry under lire.at Gaba Tepe. is a eon of Mr Charles Marter, ivho was for some time sub-editor of the "Now Zealand Times,'' and was well-known in Wellington as an enthusiastic footballer and as taking a keen interest in sport of all kinds. Private Marter, on April 26th last, carried a wounded man to shelter fifty yards along open, ground which was swept by heavy shell and rifle fire.

Sympathetic reference to the deaths of two former members of the Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club, Lieutenant T. 31. Grace, who was killed in. action at the Dardanelles, and Private Brie V. St. George, who succumbed to illness after being in camp 'with the Trcntham Kegiment, 'was made both in the annual report of the club and by the chairman (3ir 31. C. Barne-tt), at the annual meeting last nignt. A resohit-on of condolence was pa.si.jd, and it was decided that letters of sympathy ba forwarded to the parents of both young men. iuL :ur.er.:l of ;:i.- !.it~ Mr .G«-«i.r. s-.:v-"•--! ■■•:,•-•- ...i. ..j ..'.; .•.-: .-...:.''-' Churci .). 15~..-z± ilr Burling was a son of th'.- iate 3i; Henry Burling, the celebrated centenarian" of Waikanae. Deceased was born in London in IS3B, and reached Wellington with his parents in the ship London an Msrc-h !£2nd, 181-.'. The family resided for three years near Wadestown. then moving to the present site of Featherston, where they were the first white settlers. 3lr George Hurling •commenced wlipew-farmjiig in IS6I, in which lie married a Jiiss Gooding. He left a widow, six tons and sis daughters, all of whom are married.

Captain Brown left Wellington yesterday by the first Main Trunk express. Mr T. de Schryvor, of Auckland, who has been on an extended trip to Canadu, has returned to Auckland.

Tho liev. Brother. Priscillion, who has been a resident of Fiji, has arrived in Auckland on a health tour of Now Zealand.

The death occurred at Mnsterton yesterday of Mr William Mclullop, well known throughout the Wairarupa, at the age of sixty years. Mr K. X. Webb, who was a member of Dv Mawson's seietitifie. utafl on his expedition to the south, has joined the Reinforcements, his work on (he Antarctic records having kept him in Christchurch up to the present.

Mr Arnold .lames Petric, 8.. A.- hist assistant at the Waikiwi school, who obtained leave of absence from the Education Board some time back to join tinNew Zealand expeditionary force, leaves lnrerenrgill for Trent ham to-day.

The death is announced from Dunedin of Mr Leslie R. Wilson, of the firm of R. Wilson and Co., merchants. He had been in Napier for the past two months, and on his return to Dunedin a day oi two ago he. died on (he train between Timarn and Oamaru. Mr Wilson had been in indifferent health for several years. He left a widow and one son.

Trooper Percy Turner, only son of F. C. Turner, Mayor of Kketahuna, has been killed at the Dardanelles. Deceased was a member of the first New Zealand Force, atfid though invalided for some time in Fgypt refuse.! to consider a proposal that he should return to Now Zealand, lie was only thirty years of age. and was educated at Wellington College.

Tlie resignation of Captain D. .T. Watsou a-i a member of 'the Wellington Harbour Board, was reported, at thj board's meeting last night by tho chairman (Mr C. K. Daniell). The chairman, said that ,it would In? the duty ol tin; Government, to appoint a member to fill the vacancy thusl caused. ! 0n the motion of Mr R. Fletcher, M.P., seconded by Mr 'A. MeFarlaue, it was resolved that a letter of thanks for his past services be sent to 'Captain AVat<ioii, and that the letter bo endorsed on tho minutes.

Trooper Alfred Iggulden, of the Wellington. Mounted Rifles, who has been irillod in action at the Dardanelles, waa the som of Mr W. Iggulden, of Masterlon, and was a well-known athlete, lie was a splendid boxer and won the amateur championships in Wairarajra. and Hawko's Bay, as well as being runnerup to the late .Sergeant Tas Smith, of Masterton, in the heavy-weight chainpionshir;, of Egypt. Doce-ased was aJ.so a good footballer, and was a member of the New Zealand team which defeated New South Wales in Egypt some months ago, and which included "Norkcy" Dewar (killed), B. Ronaldson (killed), K. G. ' ChaimbeTlaJ.ii (killed), MclWlane (tho Wellington representative), and W. Colenvan.