PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 146143, 2 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr J. D. Cruickshanfc, of Wellington, is visiting Masterton.

The Rev. G. T. Brown left yesterday Dii a two or three weeks' visit to the Hcuth Island.

Private W. Cruickshank, of Eketahuna, was accidentally killed in France on December 14th.

Mr J. A. Sellar, acLing-manager of the Bank of Australasia at Taihape, is on a visit to Masterton.

Mrs Nold, a former resident of Gladstone, died at Masterton on Saturday, at tiio age of 79 years.

The death occurred at Masterton on Sunday of Mrs M. Garrick. The deceased was 75 years of age.

A Vienna cablegram states that Richard Strauss, the famous German composer, is dead; aged fifty threo.

Driver L. B. Murray, son of Mr J. L. Murray, of Mastertoa, who left with the 17th New Zealand Artillery, has been admitted to the Codford Hospital.

The residents of Gladstone entertained Corporal \V. Bey and Gunner Strang at a social, and presented each of them with a safety razor outfit. There was a large gathering of settlers, and the two soldiers received a hearty scud-off.

A Press Association telegram from Rotorua states, that Mr Robert H. Ingles, caretaker of the Whakarewarewa Geyser Government Reserve, died suddenly from heart disease on Sunday, at the age of 61 years.

"Word has been received in Masterton by Dr. W. 11. Hosking that his sou. Trooper Douglas Hosking, war. wounded in the engagement lH'ar HI Arish, in

The Maori 'Princess Te i'uea, of the Watkato, arrived in Masterton on Saturday afternoon, and is the guest of Taiawhaio To Tan, Cnchton and Andrew. There was a large attendance of welcoming Maoris at the Te Ore Ore pah.

Major-Genera) Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, K.C.M.G., C.8., who has just been made :i Companion of the Bath, is General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Division in France, and was l)orn in Napier in February, .1 S(SS. He is the son of the !a,te Captain Hamilton Russell, of the 58th Regiment, who was a brother of the Jate Sir William EusseJl. He was educated at iiarrow and at Sandhurst. In 3SS7 he joined the Border Regiment as 2nd lieutenant, and spent five years on foreign service. In ISDij he joined his father in New Zealand, where he wa,s then farming Flaxmere in partnership with his brother, Sir William. In the year 3900 the Hawke 's Bay Mounted Kifle : ; was formed, and he was elected to command, a, position he held until he was promoted major and then eolonei of the Wellington Mounted Brigade. This rank he held at the outbreak of war, and on his services being accepted ho was appointed Colonel in Command of the Mounted Rifles Brigade of the Alain New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Shortly after landing at Gallipoli he was promoted brigadier-general. He received the K.C.M'.G. for his services on Gallipoli, and on the creation of the New Zealand Division in Egypt was appointed to the command, with the rank of majorgeneral. He is a most popular officer among the New Zealanders.