PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13971, 29 December 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sisters Blackie, McLeod, Wilson, and Looney, New Zealand nurses whowere on tlie ill-fated transport Marquette, .returned to tha Dominion by the troopship Tahiti, which, arrived at Dunedin on Christmas Day.

Sergeant Wiliiam Benzies, of theCanterbury Battalion, has been admitted to hospital at Alexandria, suffering from a severe gunshot wound in the knee.

At the Presbyterian Church, Mr Oooke, on behalf of the members^of the choir, presented to jits organist, ,lMr S. Mayson, a pipe and tobacco i>ouch, as an expression of the good feeling existing beityeen ihe. choir and its choirmaster, wishing him at the same time ahappy Christmas and a prosperous New Yetar. Mr Mayson suitably thanked the members for their gift and their kind wishes:

Mr B. P, Macmahon, of Re&fton, has been appointed'starter for the Nelson Trotting Club's meeting on February 9t3i, vice Mr R.- Hunter,; who will be absent from Nelson on tJrat date.

Official and private reports have been received: of the death of Major W. H. G, Levin, of Rangitikeri, who left with, the Second Reinforcements. He was the-second son; of ..the late Mr W. H. Levin, and was recently admitted to tho Military. Hospital "at Alexandria suffering from sever© wounds.

The death occurred at her residence. North st. 3 Palmerston North, on Wednesday • lasrt, of .Mrs B. Primmer, wife of Mr B. Primmer, formerly of Hope. She had reached the advancecL age of 72' years arid had been in bad health for a long-time., Sh© leaves a husband and iar grown-up family. The family include Messrs George and Charles PriTimer, Mesdames-Flynn, Avery, Davidson, Dicks, and Marshall, and Miss May Primmer. It is of interest to note that Mr Ptimmer's mother is.still living, having reached the great age of 98. She resides in Nelson, arid except that her eyesight has failed, she is enjoying good health.

A-Melbourne Press Association cable states that; Senator Pearce, Federal Minister of Defence, while .spending Christmas at home, # stumbled over a wire, fracturing two ribs.