PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14419, 27 October 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

* London cablegram states that it is tful whether Mr Asquith will be (sufficiently well to attend the House of Commons before Thursday.

Mr J. Hcbenton went into the Masterton Hospital yesterday to undergo ar. operation for varicose veins to enable him to go to the front.

This evening, in St. Matthew's Church, at 7.30: o'clock,- Dr Sprott, Bishop of Wellington, will institute the Rev. John Walker to the cure of the parish.

Mr Harry Bannister, the eldest son of Mr Thomas Bannister, of Langdale, had the misfortune to get his right arm broken through a fall from a horse on Sunday morning last.

At a caucus of the Commonwealth Labour Party, held yesterday, the Right Hon. Andrew Fisher was appointed Hi!ih Commissioner, and Mr Hughes was elected as leader of the Party.—Melbourne cable.

The following' resignations of teachers were accepted by the Wellington Education Board yesterday: —Miss E. head teacher. Gladstone; Miss c!tL Kemsley, Tablelands; Miss M. Phillpotts, Grey town; Miss Merlet, Papatawa.

Mr Henry H. Flatt, a very old resident of Auckland, died cm Sunday at the age of 83. He was one of the early workers in connection with the Methodist Church in Auckland, until advancing years and failing health prevented his attendance.

Mr A. S. Cookson, of Invercargill, has been appointed secretary to the Employers' Association in succession to Mr'W. Scott, who relinquished his outside secretarial duties in order to devote himself entirely to the employers' interests iv the. Arbitration Court. Gunner Harold Plimmer, whose death in action at the Dardanelles is reported, was the son of Mr and Mrs C. Plimmer, of Boulcott street, Wellington. He was an engineer by profession, and went away with the Main Expcditionnry Force. He had been in the firing line ever since the first landing at Gallipoli. At the annual meeting of the V.M.C.A. Camera Club last evening, Mr vJHon Bradley was elected tin honorary member of the club. Mr Bradley was the club's first secretary, ami he is now serving with the Seventh Eeinforcements. Eulogistic references were made to the splendid work of the late secretary.

A cable was received from London yesterday from Father Segrief, who reports that he has seen Father Dore in the military hospital at Plymouth. Father Dore/ who was very well known :nul highly respected iv the Foxton ami Shannon districts, where he was stationed prior to his departure as chaplain on the hospital ship Maheno, was badly wounded in the hip by shrapnel on August 16th. The cable yesterday state;! that he is slowly recovering, and will probably return to New Zealand shortly.

In a letter from Gallipoli, Captain ,!. G. McCallum gives some particulars of the circumstances under which Trooper Alan de Castro, son of Mr W. W. de Castro. District Land Eeigstrar, Invercargill! was killed. Describing an attack on the Turkish position on August sth, Captain McCallum says:—"We were right under the Maxim now, which is the safest place to be, for generally the muzzle cannot be deflected much, -w_fh, of course, we knew. Its atteudiM warriors evidently knew it too, and hooked it off as hard as they could go, p.nit two seconds later it was ours. A deep trench ran behind it, but this was cleared quicker than I tell it. Nevertheless, it cost us several men, including- little Alan de Castro, wellknown to many iv Motueka and Biwuka. He was the happiest and the best of comrades and the keenest of soldiers, and his loss will be deeply felt by all who knew him. My brother was hit here too in two places, but after bandaging his wounds pressed on to the top before he would go back to the hospital."