PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 53

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Miss F. N. Haigh has been appointed sole teacher at the Taha'tika School, Miss W. M. George sole teacher at Bald Hill Flat, and Miss J. L. W. Thompson sole teacher at Kyeburn. Captain A. Kinder, N.Z.M.C., -who returned to New Zealand last month in charge of a draft of soldiers Invalided from Egypt, will ' take up duties in connection with the medical boards in Wellington shortly. Captain Kinder has just completed two years on active service. For three months prior to his return to New Zealand, and following the battle of Gaza, he was on duty at a base in Egypt. Sub-inspector Broberg, formerly of Dunedin, but now of Auckland, has been transferred to Wellington. Senior Sergeant Wohlman, formerly of the district clerks' office, Dunedin, has been promoted to subinspector, and will replace Sub-inspector Broberg at Auckland. Sub-inspector Wohlman is at present in Dunedin en route to Otautau, where his parents reside. Constable Butler, of Roxburgh, and formerly court orderly at Dunedin, has been promoted to sergeant, and transferred to Wellington. . Mr G. T. Haskins, head of the Locomotive Department on 'the Westland section of railways for the past two years and a-half, will retire on superannuation shortly, when he will remove, with his wife and family, to Christchurch. Master Robert S. Aitken, late of Mosgiel, now of Gisborne, has obtained a "University scholarship at the high school of the latter town. This lad has put up a fine record. In 1915 he was top of the list for the dominion for the ordinary scholarships while attending Mosgiel High School. In 1916 he won a University scholarship, but was too young to take advantage of it, again heading the New Zealand list. For the 1917 examination he is a close second for the same position. Dr Mary Blair has been mentioned in General Milne's despatch x for services with the Salonica force. She is a daughter of the former Engineer-in-chief_ in New Zealand, and. studied at Victoria College and London University, where she graduated. She served for some time in Flanders, and two years ago went to Serbia in charge of a hospital unit for the Scottish Women's Hospitals. After the retreat she went to Ajaccio in charge of the hospital for Serbian refugees. Mrs L. Maclean,, wife of the Rev. W. Maclean, C.F., N.Z.E.F., has been mentioned in despatches for her work at the County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury. Mrs Maclean, who is a daughter of Mr W. H. Ingram, of Invercargill, went to England in August, 1916, and shortly afterwards commenced v/ork at Napsbury. Her husband was minister at iSomervell Memorial Presbyterian Church at Remuera, and has been with the N.Z.E.F. since moving from Egypt to France. He lately joined the New Zealand Discharge Depot at Torquay. Mr W. Wilson, of St. Leonards, has received information that his son, Sergeant John Wilson, has received a bar to his Military Medal which he won at Messines. He is a member of the Fifth Reinforcements, and has seen service in Gallipoli and France. He was promoted in France. Mr Douglas L. Hatton, formerly chief clerk at Milton Post Office, has been appointed postmaster at Cromwell. . Since his departure from Milton six - years ago, Mr Hatton has occupied the positions of postmaster at Whahgamomona and Ormondville. The death occurred, on November 26, at Parnham House, Dorsetshire, of Mr Edward Moorhouse, formerly a very well known resident in New Zealand. He pased away peacefully after an illness of rather more than three weeks, in the 84th year of his age. For many years Mr and Mrs Moorhouse havo been living in England with their family, chiefly in Northamptonshire, where Mr Moorhouse was well known in the hunting field. He leaves a widow, two daughters, and one son. One son, his elder son, Lieutenant W. R. Rhodes-Moor-house, V.C, was the first airman to receive this coveted award. He died in France early in 1915, from wounds, sustained while dropping bombs on Courtrai. Mr Moorhouse had many relatives and friends in New Zealand. Captain Colin M. Gilray. son of Professor Gilray . (Dunedin), was (our London correspondent writes) married at the Parish Church, Haslemere, on November 24, by the Rev. W. Wragge, to Ethel Muriel, daughter of the late Arthur Standish, of New Plymouth. Mr Justice Hosking is on a vi6it to Dunedin at the present time. Mr A. J. Schulenburg, who was killed in a motor-cycle accident at Wellington on the 12th, was a native of Dunedin ; but had been a resident of Wellington tor many years. In the old days of the Volunteer system he was an enthusiastic sergeant of the Zealandia Rifles, organised by Major A. A. Corrigan mainly from the D.I.C staff, of which Mr Schulenburg was at that time a member. He was secretary of the company, and one of its best rifle shots. Some time ago he endeavoured to go to the front, but was rejected. the holiday season of 1916-17 a 'fatality was- averted in the waters of the Silverstream, in the Whare Flat district, through Master Ivor Scott rescuing from drowning Mr Thomas Walsh, of Mosgiel, and his daughter. Some time afterwards he was fittingly honoured by the Boy Scouts and their group officers, and also presented with a watch, suitably inscribed. Following this, he was on Wednesday evening last presented at Mosgiel, in the presence of a large muster of the public, Avith the Royal Humane Society's medal and certificate. Mr A. F. Qnelch (Mayor of Mosgiel) presided, and there were also present on the platform the Rev. D. Calder, Mr Walsh, and Mr Scott, all of whom made appropriate speeches. Mr J. M. Dickson, M.P., Sir Cecil Moon, and Major Fleming sent their congratulations to Scout Scott. The Mayor, after making the presentation, mentioned that Mr Walsh's parents, who reside in Hawick, Scotland, had recognised Scout Scott's brave act by sending-him a gold medal. j' Sergeant S. Frickleton Y. 0., of the Rifle Brigade and Sergeant L. W. Andrew V.C, of tho Wellington Regiment, have both (our London correspondent reports) been recommended by General Godley for commissions in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Lieutenant H. J. F. Mills, < King's Royal Rifles, son of Sir James Mills, who was captured by the Germans in the affair beyond the canal at Nieuport in July ,is interned at Freiburg and is in good health. Lieutenant Mills had been Acting Captain

since March of this year, and was gazetted as such early in November. Major E. A, Belcher, formerly head master of Christ's College, Christchurch, has been appointed Director of Vegetable Supplies, including potatoes, under the Food Ministry. Major Belcher was previously in charge of Production under tho Army and Navy Canteen Board. The new captain of H.M.S. New Zealand, appointed on the" promotion of Captain Greene to Flag-rank, is Captain Rioliard Webb, C. 8., who, since the beginning of the Avar has been director of-4he Trade Division of the Admiralty War Staff, and also associated with the control of minesweeping. Dr William Fi'tegerald, of Liverpool, has (our London correspondent writes) been appointed a Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services under the Ministry of National Service. Dr Fitzgerald is a son of Mr W. S. Fitzgerald (former rector of the Training College at Dunedin, and afterwards Inspector of Schools in Otago). Mr M. W. P. Lascelles, hon. commissioner for the New Zealand Y.M.C.A., has left England en route for New Zealand. Cur London correspondent, writing on November 13, states that his travels will take him through France, Egypt, and India. At a farewell dinner in London, Mr Lascelles was presented with a piece of pkite by members of the N.Z.Y.M.C.A. staff iir-ap-preciation of his services in England. At the Shakespeare Hut there was a farewell gathering attended by a large number of soldiers. After inspecting tho Y.M.C.A. centres in Egypt Mr Lascelles_ will give a series of lectures in India, dealing with the YtM.C.A. work in England and France. Mr G. W. W. B.- Hughes, supervising secretary for the N.Z.Y.M.C.A., crossed to France from England with Mr Lascelles. Lateet advices received from Egypt state, according to the Post, that Captain J. B. Hine, M.P., who was seriously wounded in Palestine some time ago, is now well on the road to recovery. That the wound was a serious one is shown by the fact that letters received from men who were in the battle in which Captain Hine was wounded state definitely that they believed I him to be killed. j Miss Beryl Steven has been appointed • first assistant at the Totara School. 1 Mrs Amy has been awarded the ) honour of membership of the British Empire 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 Zeppelih"menace. Mrs Pomcroy 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 death has occurred at Reef ton of Mr Frank Burns, a well-known mining contractor. Mr Burns was head of the party of contractors who drove the tunnel for the Addison Gold Company. He was j an Australian by birth, had resided in Reefton for 16 years, and was held in the very highest esteem. , The death is announced of Mr W. H. Clark, for many years head teacher of the Lumsden School, "aged 57 years. The dej ceased was the third son of Mr John Clark, of Portobello, Dunedin. He was born in Glasgow, where he received his primary education, arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1882. and took his degree at the New Zealand University. In 1884 he entered the service of the iSouthland Education Board, and was appointed head master at Dipton, whence he was transferred to Wyndham. He became first assistant in tho Central (Middle) School, Invercargill, and was finally transferred to Lumsden in 1896. Mr Clark was an enthusiastic Freei mason, and was initiated in Lodge Mokoj reta, Wyndham, of which he was j secretary. He afterwards affiliated with Lodge Southern Cross, Invercargill, i and was installed Worshipful Master lin 1894. He was secretary of the \ Lumsden Lodge, and had acted in a similar capacity for the Southland branch of the Teachers' Institute for many years. For some time his health had not been good. He is survived by his widow. Mr Thomas Elliott Wilson, well-known in the newspaper world, died in Wellington last week. Mr Wilson was very energetic, and started a number of newspapers in the dominion — in fact, it is said that he has 14 to his credit. About 36 years ago he launched the Bruce Standard at Milton in opposition to the Bruce Herald, just after the late Mr Joseph Mac Kay had left that ; paper. But the Standard had only a short i life of about three years, when it sold out | to the Herald. Mr Wilson then started a j paper in Cambridge, and finally settled down in Taihape, after having founded the Taihape Post. He was a formidable rival 'to Mr Joseph Ivess in founding I country newspapers. He originally came from the Waimate district. He leaves a widow (a daughter of the late Mr L. Gibbs, of the Oamaru district) and one .daughter. XMrs Maria Arundel, whose death took place on the 11th inst.,. at the age of 77 years, was a granddaughter of the late Baron Rothschild. Her mother, daughter of the Baron, was intended by her parents to marry a wealthv man of her own persuasion, but. not liking the 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 the age of 16. with the help of her mother, left her home in London, going to Geeiong. where she met her first husband, Mr Henry Wright. She came to Dunedin in 1859, and lived with her husband till he died, in 1871. There were five sons and two daughters, of .whom two sons —Henry George Wright, of Clyde, tailor, and Samuel Charles Wright, of Auckland, steward, and one daughter, Mrs George Gubbins, of Kew—survive. Mrs Arundel was married to Mr George Arundel, who predeceased her by , some years. j^' In the death of Mrs Beeby, relict of

Charles Beeby, which took place at her residence on the 9th inst., Queenstown loses its oldest resident, and another of the few remaining links with the early settlement of the district (says the Lake Wakatip Mail). The deceased lady, who was predeceased by her husband by about seven and a-half years, was 88 years of age. Thus, she had lived under five kings. Her late husband, who reached 95 years of age, who was born on Waterloo Day, was subject to a succession of six .Sovereigns of the realm. Although advancing years were telling theft* tale phr*/cally, her faculties, with exception of hearing, were unimpaired to the last. For some years past she was confined to her room by a physical infirmity, through which she was devotedly 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, England. She -was married in London, and there were four children of the marriage, all surviving— Mrs T. Farulkner (now resident in Melbourne), Mis» Beeby (Queenstown), and Messrs H. M. and Charles Beeby (Dunedin). Later, Mr and Mrs Beeby arrived in Melbourne in 1853. In 1870 she reached Queenstown, where the deceased lady had resided ever sinoe. Mr Peter Oullen, who passed away early this month, at his residence, Gore, at the age of 92. was a in the ship Pladda, which arrived at Port Chalmers in 1860. After residing for a short time at Owhiro, he left f° r Gabriel's Gully rush, and afterwards settled in the North Taieri, where ho was married in 1863. Twenty year's after this event he sold out to Mr Robert Gawn, and removed to Burlington Farm, near Riverton. Later still ho settled in the Pine Bush district for 16 years, after which he purchased a farm near Gore, but he sold out five years ago, when he removed to Gore. His widow, three daughters, and seven sons survive.him. One of the sons is at the front. Mr David Robertson, who died at Evansdalo early in the month, had resided there for upwards of 40 years. A correspondent, who was employed under -him on contracts in which he was engaged and who offers a high-tribute to his qualities, has supplied us with some interesting notes regarding bis career. ,' While Mr Robertson was working in the Albert Town district," ho writes, "he purchased on one occasion a ton of flour for, it was said, £IOO, from a person" who arrived there with it- and who' subsequently turned but to be none other than the notorious Levy, of the Sullivan. Levy; and Burgess gang. Mr Robertson, after working at the Dunstah, carried his hut and tent poles on his back all the way to Dunedin, across the Old Man Range—no joke in those days. I believe he was the first railway statiohmastef at Port Chalmers. Afterwards he was manager for Mr D. Proudfoot on railway construction works in New Zealand and Australia. He had charge of the construction of the Bondi sewer,. Sydney, and was manager afterwards for Messrs Miller and Smellie, of Oamaru, for whom he supervised a good many railway construction contracts.,, Subsequently he. was manager for Messrs J. and A. Anderson, of Christchurch, for whom he supervised the erection of the Waiau bridge, on the road to the Hanmer Plains, and the Waiteti contract on the Main Trunk line,, and the iSpringfield section on the Midland railway, this being the laet work he executed under the old contract 'system. He then took in hand the construction of dredges, water races, etc., amongst the latter being the Deep Stream Company's waterrace and the Alexandra Bonanza Company's race and reservoir in the Greenland swamp,. His last job of any note which he carried < out was the benching and fiuming contract for the Waipori Falls Syndicate. Mr Robertson was more like a father to the • navvies whom he employed than a ' boss/ In proof of this it need only be said that when they knew he had a new job he was simply besieged with applications for work.This I can vouch for after having worked for 20 years under him."'' Mr J. H. Waters, who has occupied the position of postmaster at Palmerston for the past five years, has been transferred to Pukekohe (Auckldftd)i on promotion. Prior to their departure from Palmerston, Mr and j Mrs Waters were entertained at a social and made the recipients of presentations by the residents of the town and district.. Mr Waters, who has been deservedly popular, both in his official capacity and as a private citizen, was presented with a geld chain, ! while Mrs Waters, who has been a zealous worker in the interests of the Red Cross Association and other patriotic movements, received a gold necklet arid pendant. The presentations were made by Mr Rodk. Cameron. ' , There was a large gathering at the Allandale Hall, Shag Point, on Friday eveningto accord a welcome to Sergeant J.- A. M'Le'od, 'Corporal Jas. Guthrie, and Private Wm. Brooke and Scobie Bowden. who recently returned invalided from the front. 'At a convenient interval in the proceedings Mr Thomas Walsh, on behalf of the residents of the district, presented each soldier with a handsome gold modal, suitably inscribed. A patriotic address was delivered by Mr Sydney Beck, Mayor of Palmerston, and Mrs Jas. Wilson, Misses Alma I*e Fevre, Matthews, Howie, and Austin, and Mr Sutherland were the principal contributors to an excellent musical programme.