PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9618, 26 March 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Captain Reid arrived here by ih* Maori yesterday. Sir John Dcnniston arrived in Wellington from the south on Saturday. Captain Post was a passenger on board the Maori, which arrived from the south yesterday. The Rev. Father Murphy arrived from the south, by the Maori yesterday. Tho Hon. Sir James Allen (Minister for Defence) witnessed the target practice at Fort Ballancp on Saturday afternoon.

The Hon. J. A. Hanan (Minister* fop Education) left for Auckland by the Main Trunk express last nigbt, and expects to be back in .Wellington by the end of tho week.

Among tho guests at present staying at tho Grand 'Hotel aro_ Messrs R. Mewburn (Auckland), J. IV. McCarthy (Dunedin)- A. J. Collins (Dunedin), G. W. Reid (Wanganui), G. Waymouth and H. A. Joyce (Treutham) and Professor Norwood. The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Minister for Agriculture) is still prosecuting his grow-morc-whoat campaign in the South Island- Ho is visiting Timaru. Oamaru, and duistchurch, and will probably return to Wellington by the end of the week. Messrs , E.' Casey (Auckland) and Matthowsoh, Kane, Finlayson arid Brooke (Dunedin) are at present in Wellington in connection with the Railway Conference, which opens today. They are staying at Barrett’s Hotel.

Guests staying at Barrett’s Hotel in« elude Mrs and Alisa Gawno (Tomuka), Mrs Norris and .Miss Fountaine (West-" port), Mrs Pollock and Miss Brookor (North Canterbury), Messrs F. Henderson (Now Plymouth), E. Greenfield (Timaru), 1), Rodger (Christchurch),, and Messrs , Spedding and Angus. Recent registrations at the Empire Hotel include the following—Lieutenant and Mrs Cli apm Fe ath or sto n), Mrs J. F. Jounc (Gisborne), Messrs F., L. Lakin (Sydney), H. Daley (Christchurch), W. F. Dempsey (Foatherston), B. T. Brown (Blenheim), R. L. McNiven (Featliemton) ' and_ R. , G. MoNiven (Wanganui). It has been learned, says the Melbourne “Argus,” that Captain von Muller, of the'Emden, was born in Queensland, where his father owned a selection between Brisbane and Sandgate. He was educated at the State school at Sandgate —a fact which probably accounts jpF'his ’command,.of the English language, winch has been freely remarked upon. .

Private advice has been received that Major R. A. Row, of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of-lieutenant-colonel. '.Major Row left New Zealand with' the Main Body as major in charge of A Company, • First Canterbury Regiment and served with distinction in. the Gallipoli campaign, and was afterwards through the big fighting on tha> French front. •

The present Mayor of' Onslow, Ms' C. C. Crump, has agreed to nominaion for the forthcoming election,, and the following have consented to bo nominated as .councillors: —Khandallab Ward, .Messrs Edward Cowles, George Finn, and F. W. Mansfield. Ngaio Ward, Messrs 'William Watts, L. A. Browne, and H. Brenton-ißule. These have all expressed themselves as being in favour of a water service being obtained as soon as possible for the Onslow borough.

Air J- H. Crawford, of Pahiatuat late of Wellington, lias received nows that his third son, Roderick, who left with the Bth Reinforcements, has been killed in action. Three of Mr Crawford’s sons have seen active service abroad, the. eldest having gone with the Ist Howitzer Battery, and has since been invalided home and .i. discharged. The second son has . also been wounded, but has- returned to. the firing-line in France. The late Private Crawford was only nineteen years of age.

Captain 13. Stott, who has been marine superintendent 'for the Union Company at Wellington" for some years, is about to transfer to Auckland in a similar capacity in place ol Mr Thomas Birch, who is retiring on superannuation. Mr Birch, who was formerly a purser, ip. the, company’s employ, lias beep for many, years' located at Auckland. Captain R. B. Walton, marine superintendent for the Union Company at Lyttelton, is to succeed Captain Stott at Wellington. Captain Horn, late of tho Mararoa, will taka Captain Walton’s place a* Lyttelton.

Mr W. A, Curzon-Siggcrs, of Dunedin, writes from London, under date of January 16th:—“On Sunday afternoon I had a telephone message from Horcus that he and Captain •J. G„ Stewart (both of whom I know well in Otago University) were in town, so 1 went up hurriedly to London to meet them. X got to their hotel in Piccadilly about 6 p.m., and then wo three went to Westminster Abbey for the 7 p.m. service/ Horcus has now a scientific job in the R.N.V.R., with lieutenant’s rank, and is on the statt at Dover. Stewart is captain in the* N.Z.A.S.C., and has just got the Military Cross. It was a very happy re. union.”

Writing to a member' of the “South., land Times” literary 'staff from Franco on January 9th, Major T. M. Wilkes says; —“Bishop Cleary is with us, and he is great—always round the lines amongst the men, no matter whet is ‘coming over.’ He is_ a real sport, •and liked by all. “ A soldier" was killed alongside bim the other day, and the Bishop himself was knocked oyer by the force of the debris thrown, up by the 5.9 shell, but otherwise uninjured. Ho tended the dying man, who was fortunately unconscious. Many would have been finished with’ the lines after that; but not so the Bishop. He continues to go round, and no amount of ‘Bosche persuasion’ puts him off his rounds; in fact, he goes where there is most of that commodity because he seems to think he is mosv needed there.”