PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17516, 7 January 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL

A Brisbane telegram to the Melbourne Age states that Mr Elliott Coleman, one of the best known sheep classers and wool, men in Central and Northern Queensland, was struck dead by lightning in Mildura while classing sheep. Mrs Morrow, Nelson terrace, Tima.ru, has received advice that her husband, Captain T. J. Morrow, is returning to New Zealand this month.

Mr John Brown, Kyeburn Diggings, has . received advifio from headquarters that his son, Sergeant R. D. Brown, has been awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry on the field. Sergeant Brown was employed by Mr D. Cook, solicitor, and enb'sted with the Seventeenth Reinforcements. He has also three brothers serving the colours, two of whom have been wounded. and one has returned. Mrs J. A. Miller, Maungatna, has received intimation from Sir James Allen that her husband, James A. Miller, has been awarded the Military for gallantry on the field. Lieutenant Miller is expected to arrive home in February. Miss Mackenzie, member of the Executive of,the New Zealand Educational Institute, and Miss Ralston, one of the Otago delegates to the annual meeting, of the New Zealand Educational Institute, left Dunedin yesterday morning for Wellington. Miss Norris, secretary of the Women Teachers' Branch and of the I>unedin Branch of the 0.D.E.1., has also left for Wellington to attend the annual meeting. Their Excellencies the Governor-general and Lady Liverpool reached Christchurch on Saturday to take up residence at Elmwood. General Pau will dine with their Excellencies on Friday, while the whole of the French Mission wil'l be entertained at luncheon by their Excellencies the following day. Mr John Geoffrey Denniston, the youngest son of the Hon. Sir John Denniston, who has been offered and accepted a position upon the staff of Christ's College Grammar School, is a passenger by the Briton, which sailed from Devonport on December 27. Mr Denniston, who was born in Christchurch in 1890, was_ educated at Christ's College, where he gained a Somes Scholarship, and afterwards at Canterbury College, where he took his degree as Baohelor of Arts in 1912. He was for a short time an assistant master of the Lower School at Christ's College, a position which he gave up in 1912 to enter as an under graduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. At the date of the declaration of war he was in camp as a private in King Edward's Horse, in which regimenthe remained until fighting ceased. He left England as sergeant in the first draft of the regiment which went to the front. With other old Christ's College bovs he was offered and accepted a commission in the regiment, and went to England for training. Lieutenant Denniston spent some time in Ireland, and his regiment was the first to enter Dublin in the rising of 1916, the regiment being fired on and two officers killed. Lieutenant Denniston's troop had been despatched to Longford two days before. He was subsequently promoted to a first lieutenancy.