PERSONAL

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14145, 24 July 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL

■ '/Private!-Hugh Fredoiuct^'en^son of Mrs;.E.' Owen,• Ilus'sell'sti'eqt, >.Nelson) was -wounded:.on" the; 11th' inst.-"'' "• '" It is' with deep regret, we'have to record the death of Mrs, Duncan, -wife-of Mr-H. 8,. Duncan, of Hardy street," which occurred yesterday morning after a long illness. Very general sympathy \vilT be* felt for Mr Duncan and his family of two- little sons, in- their bereavement;

Mrs 'Cannington, of "Waimea street, yesterday received word from the Minister of Defence that her eldest son, Sergeant Harold W. Oaunington, was killed in action on July 9th. Sergeant Cannington was a Nelson Collegian, and was in the- local office of the- Public Trustee. He left New Zealand with the Main Force-, and served through the Gallipoli campaign. Mrs Oamnington's second son nas just returned to Nelson invalided from the front.

Among recent -recipients of the Military- Cross is Lieutenant (now Major) Hutchison, son of Mr. George Hutchison, of Wanganui. Major Hutchison was a lieutenant in the Liverpool JEtcgiment when he won the decoration, but was transferred'on his promotion to the Royal Engineers.

Mr. H. M. Smeeton has been appointed by the National Council of the V.M.C.A." commissioner in France and elsewhere. He leaves, at his own expense, on August Bth. The council has also decided to send Mr A. Varney, secretary of the association at Wellington/to France as supervisor of the New Zealand field service secretaries, under the control of the British Naiion<:.l Council.

Clara Louise Kellogg is dead at_ her home in Ne\v Hartford, Connecticut,

after a long illness. She was 74 years old. OW of the noted American -.opraiios of Uie last century, she retired in 1887, which was the year of viarriage co Carl Strakosch, of the i asiage.rial family of that name. Her i '.me liacl been divided- since then :,jt'^^on the United States and Italy.

Private Cyril Daking (died of wound 0 was one of the prluoinals of the iirm of Mcs-rs. Houso and Diking, of Hamilton. He was a single man, 31 years of "age, and-was born in Suffolk. England, where his people still reside, ha • noninany -v/ith his pavtiwr, Mr F. C. Bouse, he came, o\it to New Zealand ten years ago, entering the employ of Smith and Caughey, Ltd:, Aupkllind. Eight years ago, in conjunction with his. partner, he coir--meneed business at "Waihi,. and later-at Hamilton and .Te Awamutu. When war broke out he enlisted at Hnmilton. For the past five ho managed the branch :vfc Te Awaimitu, in which district he was best'known.

A cablegram has boon received in Dunedin intimating that Mr. J. R. Mackenzie, late of Glenkenich Estate, Pomahaka,". Otp.go, dieel suddenly at his residence, Glenroy, Victoria. During the pas b t generation there were s few ■studmasters more widely known in the South Island than Mr. Mackenzie (says the "Otago Daily Times"). The Clydesdale horses, Hereford cattle, and. Romney ; Alarsh sheep bred at Glenkenich were in the very forefront of these respective breeds' of stock in the Dominion.