PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14466, 28 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Private F. Reynolds, aged 33 years, a member of the 11th Reinforcements, committed suicide at the May Morn Camp, on Christmas night.

Mr A; C. Hubbard, chairman of the ■Ohinemuri County Council, having enlisted for active service, has *■ resigned his office.

The death is announced of Lord Cranbrook, who was private secretary to Lord Hampden when the latter was Governor of New South Wales.

Mr P. J. L. Kenny, of Sydney, has been appointed general secretary of the Young Men's "Christian Association, 'Auckland, in succession to Mr J. B. McKinriey.

News has been received in Duuedin of the death in Great Britain of Captain Malcolm Livingston, supervisor for some years of the Union Company's .vessels.

A Press - Association telegram from Melbourne states that Senator Pearee, while spending Christinas at homo, stumbled over a wire, .fracturing a couple of ribs.

The death occurred at Belmont on Christmas Day of Mr Edward W. Petherick, an old and much-respected resident of Wellington, aged 75 years, and father of Mr Arthur Pctherick, recently of Masterton.

At St. Matthew's Church yesterday, Private Walter H. Best, of the Expeditionary Forces, was married to Miss Helen" Parsons, daughter of Mrs Parsons, of Wrigley street, Masterton. The Bey. John Walker officiated.

The president of the Sydney Operative Bakers , Society, Mr J. Wardley, 3ias celebrated his 100 th birthday, and is still in good health —physically and mentally. At the annual meeting, when he was "re-elected president, he was pr \. sented with a purse of sovereigns.

The many friends in Mastertou of Mr M. l>. Hornsby, Mayor of Carterton, and son of Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, M.P., •will regret to loam that he has had to undergo a serious operation, and thnt his comlitio nis causing much anxiety to his relatives and friends.

Mr Hugh Gillies, .who has been a buyer for the Gear Meat Company for the past thirty .wars, has retired from that position. He was entertained at Palmerston by the members of the buying staff and presented with a travelling xug.

The many friends of Mr Arthur Williams, musician, of "The Academy," Mastertou, will be pleased to learn that lis son, Mr .0. M. "Williams, is now a fully-qualified pharmaceutical chemist, having passed all sections of the neeos .sary examinations.

At Carterton last week, Mr George John Goldsman, son of Mr and Mrs Goldsman, of Tiinaru, Avas married to Miss May Phillpotts, second daughter of Mr and Mrs G. S. Phillpotts, of Carvterton. The bridesmaids were Misses .Beatrice Phillpotts- and Pauline Phillpotts. The ceremony was performed by .the Eev. Mr Halliday, of Masterton. A Press Association, telegram from Dunedin states that Mr Andrew McKerfow, a pioneer settler in the Hampden district, died suddenly on Saturday. He ■was for many years, and up to the time of his death, a member of the Education Board. , He was also a member of the "Land Board, retiriug from the latter on his appointment as Chief Land Valuer for the Otago district. M. Venizelos, the ex-Premier of ■ Greece, is a widower with two sons, and is really Cretan, his father being expelled from the island by the Turks. In the Cretan revolt of 1896, Venizelos donned the Cretan costume and topboots, ami showed great military powers. On one occasion, at a Cretan village meeting, a resolution was passed to kill Venizelos. Hearing of it, he -went to the Villagers, explained _ his iiims, and then revealed his identity, •with the result that the would-be assas--sins gave him a vote of confidence. Such is the power of the man. A barrister by profession, Venizelos first became Premier of Greece ten years ago. He has re-made Greece. Hβ reformed the navy and army, founded the Balkan League, and has always been a friend and admirer of Great Britain. Major-General Sir William Eobertson, the new Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is a "ranker," his career Laving been most varied and remarkable. He was born in IS6O, in Lincoln.

shire, and enlisted as a trooper in the 16th Lancers at the age of 17. After five years' service as private and noncommissioned officer he was promoted to a eecond-lieutenancy in the 3rd Dragoon. Guards, which he joined in India. In 1891 Lieutenant Robertson acted as railway staff officer in the first "M"irftT?« zai and Black Mountain expedition, in which he penetrated the tangled mountain region west of Kohat, in the Punjaub. Later he acted as intelligence officer on the headquarters staff of the Chitral relief force. Here Captain Robertson was severely wounded, and was mentioned in despatches. During the South African war Captain Robertson was first employed at the War Office, and then in the field as deputy-assistant adjutant-general on the headquarters staff. Since 1902 he has held various staff posts at Army headquarters, the most important being commandant of the Staff College. In this capacity he was charged with the instruction of the future staff officers of the army, and on the outbreak of the war he be■came quarter-master-general of the .army in the field.