PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9721, 25 July 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Air C. L. Hartmann, who has been manager of the Bank of Australasia at Utaki. leaves shortly for Auckland to take charge of a bank there."

The latest “New Zealand . Gazette’ 1 notifies the official rccogvut.cn ‘by the .Governor-General of the appointment of Mr Joseph Wallace as Consular Agent of Italy at Christchurch.

Mr 11. H. Ebey, who toured New Zealand and Australia in, the of the Luckenbach Steamship Co. of New York, and on his return to America severed his connection with Utat. company, has been appointed operator of traffic, for the United States’'Shipping Bureau.

The death of Mr James Frampten, at E-cetton. has rfmoved another old identity of the district. 'ln former) years, deceased worked as a miner on ths hclii, «ud was employed in all the principal mines at various times. The late Mi X’ramplon, who had been 50 years in th* Dominion, was 79 years of age. *

Among the new arrivals stayingtot th» New Commercial are: —Mr and Mrs Aa dersou (.Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Lertcli iMa-terton), Mr and Mrs til*-!-bourne), Mrs Quirk (Sydney), Mr and Mrs Teague (Pioton), Messrs Behan and Hanahan (Qrcymoxith)Champion (Auc kland). Stark (Mastrton),. Collins (.Napier). Sir Douglas Haig in his dispatches, relating to the Sommo battle mentions among those as having jJ°n«fc specially, well Second-Lieutenant (now Major) «. A. Wilson, of the Garrison Artillery. Major AVilson wont Homo about a year and a-dialf ago and joined the Imperial Army. . . „ , Captain Albert Edward Cjinway, who was invalided from the front »oia». time ago, been struck o 5 strength of the Zealahd tionary Force and absorbed in tba establishment of the Territorial Forcesj in the 13th (North Canterbury amt Westland) Regiment, with his original' rank as major. - Cabled nows has reached Christehureh that Lieut. J. F. Mills, only eon of Sir .Tames 31111 s. has been reported missing since Jmy 10th laout. .-Mills,' who is 23 years of aß4.«ja *“• 2nd Battalion, Kin^eLieut; Mills is a brother-in-law, of MJ if. J. Besivick, the present onaxrman..of the Third Wellington Military- Sorvica Board. .News has just come to hand, by; mail of a very narrow escape erpenenoed the front by Mr Robert Blair, a Y.M.C.A. field secretary; well known la different parts of' No*- Zealand. Im hut in which Mr Blair waa'sleeping waj struck by a shell, and* When, he and others dashed out* to take 'refuge in • trench they wore found - * by‘Another shell, which half smothered them with dirt, but without inflicting serious Injury.

An old identity and colonist of GO years standing in the person of Mr Tbpmas AVright Gibson, builder, passed away at his residence,- Booworth terrace, last Saturday afternoon f ln his Band year-. The deceased arrived in Melbourna in 1857 and after following his ooou»«» tion for a time started tor the goldfields at Rockhampton, subsequently being at the rushes »t Boechworth. Ballarat, Avoca, Lambing Flat, Hokitika, and the famous Gabriel’s Gully- Finally in 1878 he settled in Wellington, and has since resided here. “ Tie*-leaves a had since resided .here. He leaves • all well known in the city, the youngest biing away at the war at the present time.

Mrs Jessie Burns, wife of Mr Andrew Burns,, nub-editor of the "-Farmers Union Advocate,'' died suddenly at her residence in Vivian street early yesterday morning, aged 67. She retired to ie.--the previous night apparently in g>n>-l health, and look ill a few hours later. ’!);•> deceased lady, who had ■ lived ■in Ne t Zealand for the greater part of her Lf/-, was much respected. She has lefi a family of four sons —Mr Alex. 31. Burns chief sub-editor of the Christc.jurc.i “Press,’' Mr Andrew N. Bums, hc;u ; - masler of School. -AG John C. Burns, first, asyislant at the-New to ivy School, atjcl Air Nelson Burrs, of ,the literary, staff of it,, “Kew Zealand Herald ’ flntc Director of' Education at Nukualofa). Mr AV. Tinsley, son of the lata Ecv. AV. Tinsley, who*" left New Zealand several year* ago to accept a position in the British Infia Shipping Com. pany, is now in the 'United /dates of America. After serving with the B.L Company for some time, Mr Tinsley accepted a position with Messrs Lane and Maoandrew. shipowners, London, and was eventually appointed by them their chief engineer. Word has now coma to hand that Mr Tinsley has been lent to the British Admiralty by his employers as superintendent engineer in connection with the construction of machinery for vessels which the. Admiralty are building for the oil-carrying trade. Mr Tinsley served his apprenticeship at the Government .Avorkshops, Addington, under Mr A. AV. Smith. Mr James Alexander, of Wellington, has been elected to ’fill the vacancy on the Public Service Board of Appeal caused through the ' resignation' of, Mr Alexander Mill, as representative of the telegraph branch of the Post and Pelagraph Department. Mr Alexander is an old Kaiapoi boy. who served for many rears in the Chris-tchurch office of the 'tost and Telegraph Department. tor the past 13 years'or so he has been in AVelliuglon, and he is now aeelstantsuperintendent there. He has _ taken a very prominent part in the activities of the officers of the department, and particularly in the Post and Telegraph Association. In the election to the'.Fublio Service Board of Appeal he secured 1376 votes against 988 cast for his opponent, Mr H. X. Bennett.

Tho Commonwealth “Defence Departmerit has notified' Mrs -E. Muirson, of 463. St. Asaph street. Christchurch, tc the following effcct:—"l hare much pleasure in forwarding hereunder cop? of extract from Second" Supplement Iso. 28890, to the 'London Gazette,' dated January 2nd,, 1917, relating to the conspicuous services rendered by your son. Captain K. Muirson, loth Machine-Gun Company:—‘Mentioned- < an* dispatches: The following dispatch, has ,been received by the Secretary of State for . War fropi General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.8., Coxnmauder-in-Ghief ot the British Armies in France: —1 have the honour to submit the name of the under-meption-ed officer serving. under my command, , whose distinguisned services and devotion to duty I consider, deserving ot special mention: Captain,, TCenacUl Muirson/ ”■ above letter, Mrs Muirson has/received advice that her son has been promoted to the rank of major, and has bee' awarded the Military Cross. ■