PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17216, 19 January 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL

Advice has boon received by theY.M.O.A. National Headquarters, that Mr It. Konner, of Auckland, one of tlio New Zealand field secretaries in charge of a Red Triangle Hut in France, has been slightly wounded in tile head while on service lor New Zealand soldiers.

Latest advices received from Egypt state, according to Iho l'ost, that Captain J. B. Hine, M.P., who wiis seriously wounded in Palestine some time ago, is now well on tho road to recovery. That tho wound was a serious one is shown by the hu:t. tliat letters received from men who wero in the battle in which Captain llino wu6 wounded state definitely that they believed him to bo killed.

Brigadier-general Sir Robert Anderson, wlio tuiti been appointed chairman of the Defence Expenditure Commission, will arrive in the dominion on the 28th inst. Miss Beryl .Steven has been appointed first assistant at tile Totara School. Mrs Amy Pomeroy has been awarded tho honour of membership of tho British Empiro Order for the remarkable courage and self-devotion shown by her in helping her husband to invent a bullet which has, it is claimed, put an end to the Zeppelin menace. Mrs Pomeroy is 26 years of age, and, though she is the mother of four children, she risked her life all day long and all night long. The political correspondent of The Times 6tates (according to a cable message published in Australia) that Lord Reading's exceptional war appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States is not likely to be permanent. Ho will remain Chief Justice while in America, and will resume the work of that office on his return. Lord Bcrtio will remain as British Ambassador at Paris. Mr R. Williamson arrived in Dunedm last evening in connection with tho forthcoming Mario Tempest season. The death has occurred at Reefton of Mr Frank Burns, a well-known mining contractor. Mr Burns was head of the party of contractors who drove the tunned for tho Addison Gold Mining .Company. Ho was an Australian by birth, bad resided m Reefton for 16 years, and was held in tho very highest esteem. The death is announced of Mr W. 11. Clark, for many years head teacher of tlio Lufnsdcn School, aged 57 years. The deceased was tho third son of Mr John Clark, of Portobello, Dunodin. He was born in Gla-sgow, where he received his primary education, arrived in Now Zealand with his parents in 1882, and took his degree at the New Zealand University. In 1884- ho entered the service of the tSoutkland tion Board, and was appointed head master at Dipton, whence lie was transferred to Wyndham. He became first assistant in tho Central (Middle) School, Invereargill, and was finally transferred to Lumsden in 1896. Mr Clark was an enthusiastic Freemason, and was initiated in Lodge Mokoreta. Wyndham, of which he was secretary. He afterwards affiliated with. Lodge .Southern Cross. Inveroargill, and was installed Worshipful Master in 1894. He was secretary of the Lumsden Lodge, and had acted in a similar capacity for the Southland branch of tho Teachers' Institute for many years. For some time his health had not been good. He is survived by his widow.

Mr Thomas Klliott Wilson, well-known in the newspaper world, died in Wellington last. week. Mr Wilson was very energetic, and started a number of newspapers in tho dominion — in fact, it is said that ho haa 14 to his credit. About 36 years ago he launched tho Bruce Standard at Milton in opposition to tho Bruce Herald, just after the late Mr Joseph MacsKay had left that paper. But the Standard had only a short life of about three years, when it sold ont to the Herald. Mr Wilson then started a paper in Cambridge,' and finally settled down in Taihapo, after having founded the Taihape Post. He was a formidable rival to Mr Joseph Ivess in founding country newspapers. He originally came from the Waimate district. Ho leaves a widow (a daughter of the lato Mi" L. Gibbs, of the Oatnaru district) and one daughter. A pleasing ceremony took place at the wool shed, Roslyn Mills, 011 Wednesday evening, when a wedding present was lianded to Mr A. Davis, a member of tho wool-sorting staff. Mr J. ChappeL in presenting the guest with a sum of money, extended the customary good wishes. Tho recipient responded. Mrs 'Maria Arundel, whose death took place on tho 11th inst., at the age of 77 years, was a granddaughter of the lato Baron Rothschild. Her mother, daughter of the Baron, was intended by her parents to marry a wealthy man of her own persuasion. but. not liking tho intended husband, she refused, and eloped with Abraham Smith, her father's coachman, with the result that Mrs -Smith was ■. deprived of all benefits from her own family. The marriage was not a happy one, owing to the husband's drinking habits. Mrs Arundel, at tho age of 16. with_ the help of her mother, left her homo in London, going to Geelong, where sho mot her first husband, Mr Henry Wright. She came to Dunedin in 1859. and lived with her husband tin he died, in 1871. There were fivo sons and two daughters, of whom two sons —Henry George Wright, of Clyde, tailor, and Samuel Charles Wright, of Auckland, steward, and ono daughter, Mrs George Gubbins, of Kew—survive. Mrs Arundel was married to Mr G cargo Arundel, who predecoased her by some years. In tho death of Mrs Becbv, relict of Charles Booby, which book piaco at her residence on the 9th inst., Quecnstown loses its oldest resident., and another of the few remaining links with tho early settlement, of the district (says tho Lake Wakatip Mail). Tho deceased lady, who was predeceased by her husband' by about seven and a-half years, was 88 years of a-ge. Thus, she bod lived under fivo kings. Iler late husband, who reached 95 years of age, and who was born oil Waterloo Day, was subject to a suoocssion of sax Sovereigns of the realm. Although advancing years worn telling their tale physically, her faculties, with exception of hearing, were unimpaired to the last. For some yeajs past she was confined to her ivx>m by a pthyffl'oa] infirmity, through which she was <Jovofced-lv nursed by her daughter, Miss Beeby, but on Sunday there set in a complication to which she succumbed early on Wednesday evening. The lato Mrs Beeby 'was born in Bideford, Devonshire, Knglaiid. She was married in London, and there were four children of tho marriage, all survivm-^ — Mrs T. Fanlkner (now resictent in Melbourne), Miss Beeby (Quecnstown), and Messrs H. M. and Charles Beefy (Dunedin.). Later, Mr and Mrs Beeby arrived in Melbourne in 1853. In 1870 sho reached Quocpstown, where the deceased lady had resided ever since. 8