PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12067, 24 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., will leave for Wellington this evening.

Colonel Jennings arrived from the north this mewning.

Mr George Witty, M.P., left for Wellington last evening.

Mr E Wilding, win was injured in an nceklent at tho aviation ground at Sookburn a short time ago. will be about again in a few days. Mr J. Longton, president of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association, returned last night from a visit, to Dnncdin.

Mr A. Kayo and Mr W. E. Spencer ("editor of the "School Journal") wore passengers by this morning's ferry boat.

Mr Alnn Wilson, president of the Xew Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, and Mr F. .1. Shelton, general manager of the federation, returned to Wellington last evening. Mrs H. D. M"Hugh. of 20. Paparoa Street. Papanui, has received advice that her husband, Captain H. T>. M'llugh. has been awarded the Military' Cross.

Cable advice from London states that Mr Blake has resigned his seat on the Board of Directors of Dalgefy and Co., Ltd.. owing to failing health, and the Hon Sir Arthur Lawlcy has been elected to fill the vacancy.

The "Gazette" notifies that the Governor-General, in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, lias recognised the appointment of Mr Joseph Wallace as Consular Agent of Italy" at Christchurch.

Tho following New Zealanders have obtained commissions in the Roval Flying Corps:—L. M. Tsitt. N.Z.R.8.. A.' It. Kingsford, X.Z.M.C.. C. K. Mills, Divisional Mounted Troops. R. A. Stedman, T W. White, F. J. Horrelt and A. C. M'Arthur.

Lieutenant Roay Parkinson. 8.N., killed in action on March 12. 1017. served during the war in China and •at the Dardanelles, and latterly in a submarine. He was tho only son of Sir Thomas Parkinson, the eminent Irfindon surgeon, formerly of New Zealand.

At the conclusion of the final game of the billiard dining table tournament at Messrs Alcock and' Co.'s showrooms last night, Mr W. W. Vaughan presented Mr W. G. Bryce with a fountain pen subscribed for by the competitors, as a mark of appreciation of the enjoyment they had received from the tournament.

Mr William Philcox. a well-known builder of Auckland, died at Dovonport on Friday. Mr Philcox arrived in Auckland in ISoo, and during the whole of the time he was resident there ho was engaged in tho building trade. Ho was the contractor for the erection of the South British Insurance Company's offices, and the Ferry Buildings. The firm of W. Philcox and Sons also carried out extensive building work in connection with freezing factories in the Waikato. Mr Philcox was for many years organist of the Trinity Church, Dovonport.

Mr W. Dinnie, ex-Commissioner of Police, has received a letter from one of his sons, Sergeant-Major Donald Roy Dinnie, to say he arrived in London last May to join the Officers' Training Corps, and he expects to undergo several months' training there. Ser-geant-Major Dinnie, late of the Public Trust Department, was one of the first to volunteer for service in the Xew Zealand Field Artillery, and had eight months' Samoan experience, subsequently leaving with the Eighth Reinforcements, as sergeant. He was reduced to private on arrival in Egypt, hut soon regained his stripes, and was in one of the first contingents to proceed to France, where he attained the rank of sergeant-major, and where he was continually in the firing line. He has had some thrilling experiences, but. none so trying as the battle, of the Somme.

One of the oldest residents of Auckland, Mrs Sarah Laurence, died at her residence, Victoria Avenue, MountEden, on Wednesday. Mrs Lawrence wa-s born in Birmingham on November 29, 1884, and arrived in Auckland with her parents on May 1, 18-12. by the schooner Osprey. She was tho sole survivor of the passengers of that vessel on that particular voyage. Shewas the third daughter of the late Mr William Coldicutt. who was manager of the Manukau Milling and Trading Company, which, greeted a steam sawmill at Cornwaliis in 1842. The plant which included the first steam engine in New Zealand, was brought from London in the Osprey. Mrs Lawrencewas married in St Andrew's Church, Epsom, in 1852, to Colour-Sergeant Henry Lawrence, of the oßth Regiment, who, after tho war against Hone Hekp, settled in the Manukau district as a farmer.

"Writing from the Wynbcrg Hospital, South Africa, on May 1-1, to a resident of Christchurch, Mr R. Dclahero Barker, who has fought in the. ranks of the Frontiersmen, states that it was his intention' to return tu the East) African front, where much fighting still Avas being done. " When it is over," hj« wrote, " [ hope to settlethere and take up work in connection with the literature, of the country, which,"up to the present, I only managed to dabble with during periods of convalescence. It is a lovable country, full of unending delights to naturalists and open-air men." Mr Barker, who is a native of Christchurch, adds: "I have met Mr Peringuey, curator of the Capo Town Museum, a most interesting and courteous gentleman, with some Avonderful things to shoAv. He would make, so raj Now Zealand scientists very jealous with his collection of early Now Zealand things."