PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. do V. Tcschemaker-Shute has donated £600 to the Marlbo; ough Patriotic Funds.

Trooper Riches, of Nelson, who left with the Main Body, returned home yesterday. He came back to New Zealand on the Turakina. Trooper Riches spent three and a half months, on Gallipoli, arid was Wounded in the arm.

.The report, that tho Rev. W. E. Lambert, Baptist minister, was suffering from scarlet fever was incorrect, and he will preack as usual'to-morrow. .The rumour originated owing to illness in tho rev. gentleman's family.

Last evening, Gunner Hazel Hockey, who is spending his final leave in Nelson, was the guest of Mr H. Baigent, president of tne Nelson Poultry Association, at. his residence, Halifax street. On behalf of the executive of the association, several of whom were also present, Mi\ Baigent presented Gunner Hockey with an auto-razor and strop, as a mark of their ©sttem. Reference was mad-a to th-3 interest that Gunner Hockey had taken in the affairs of the association, and the hope was expressed that he would return safely after serving his country.

A .very line record in connection with the. war li.a« been put up by the male side of the family of the late Mx F. Hamilton, of Nelson. Of nine sons, six are single. Five of these are on active service, and the sixth has enlisted. Captain Archibald Hamilton, of an Indian regiment, went to Africa at tho outbreak of the war,, and ha* seen some severe fighting. In one engagement lus regiment was badly cut up, but he was fortunate enough'k> get through unscatched. Surgeon-Captain Alan Hamilton'is now with the British. Army ".somewhere in Franco." He was for a time on'the medical staff of the Duchess of Sutherland's hospital at Dunkirk, and afterwards enlisted in the R.A.M.C. Trooper Hugh Hamilton loft with the Main Xcw Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was wounded at Galhpoh. Developing lockjaw, he was invalided to England, where he made a complete recovery. He then obtained a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps, in. which he was successful in' obtaining a commission. Sergeant C. A. Hamilton is with thw New Zealand Artillery, and Private lief Hamilton is in camp with the New' Zealand Medical Corps. Mr R. A. Hamilton enlisted recently.