PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11731, 22 June 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. W. Elliott returned from Wellington this morning. Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., arrived from Wellington to-day. Captain MacDongaLl, Marino Superintendent of tho Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, returned from tho north to-day. Captain C. MacDonld, superintending engineer of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived from the north tl's morning. Mr R. B. Ward was admitted as a. j barrister of the Supreme Court by his ! Honor Mr Justice Denniston in Cham- ; bers yesterday, on the motion of Mr I G. T. Weston. Dr 0. M. Begg, who went away with the Main Body as officer in tbarge of the xuedical service, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College tf Physicians, Edinburgh, in recognition of his services at Gallipoli. Owing to the death of Captain Richard Todd, director of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Limited, in New Zealand, Mr H. W. Corry, director of the company in Australia, is at present iu New Zealand in control of tho company's business. Mr G. W. Wyles, who has -.cceptecl tho position of assistant to the signal engineer, New Zealand Railways, leit l'o"the Domiuion on May 19, via India.. Mr Wyles has been for some years in a similar position on the Bombay, Baroca and Central India Railway. Waikato's oldest inhabitant, Mr G. S. Baker, died in Hamilton this* week, afied one hundred years and five months. His son, Sergeant Barker, is in a Bengaleso native company. Mr Barker was born at Calcutta on January 18. 181G, end served in the Indian Army from a youth, and came to New Zealand in 1861. Ho served through the Maori war with the Third Militia, and later joined tho Thames gold rush. Ho came to Hamilton in 1877. Tho late Lieutenant Leslie Horon Beauchamp, son of Mr and Mrs Harold Beauehamp, of Wellington, who lost his life on the western front last year, was an old boy of the Waitaki High School, and in his memory his parents have arranged to invest £2OO at or 6 per cent, to be devoted to prizes each year. Mr and Mrs Beauchamp havo j asked that the prizes should be given for Latin and for English literature, in which subjects their son distinguished himself at tho school. Mr Rudolph Vriedlander, of Ashburton, received news by last mail that his son, Sergeant-Major Otto A. Fried- I lander, who had been with the Field j Engineers since tho landing at- Galli- ; pcli, and after the evacuation went ! to Kgypt and subsequently lo France, has received his commission as lieu- | tenant in the Royal Engineers, and is at present at Chatham. Mr Friod- I hinder's other son, Captain Hugo R. Frierllander, 1».A.M.C.. iin< been promoted to a casualty .-louring station in j France.