PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15019, 5 October 1923, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. Father Devlin will spend ~£he week-end in the. Lower Hutt parish. Mr Arthur Mallinson (London) will .-conduct the practical examinations for the Trinity College of Music in Mas"terfcon on November 2nd and 3rd. Mr and Mrs W. B. Oheamells and .Miss Chennells left Masterton yesterday for Wellington, where they will •-embark on the Marama for Sydney. Mr Chennells intends to pay a visit •to the Solomon Islands. The Rev. Father Moran, of the Low--er Hutt, is in Masterton assisting /with the Forty Hours' Adoration SerJtAviee now 'being held at St. Patrick’s Church. At the monthly meeting of the W.C.T.U. yesterday afternoon, a resolution of sympathy was passed to the Be®-. B. F. Rothwell, who has always rheea a close friend and supporter of ■the W.C.T.U. Mir E, P. Lee, Minister for Justiee prior to last election, who was defeated Tor hia seat of Oamaru in November last, will be presented with an illumin.ated address to-night by his former -constituents. Mr Lee represented Oamsaru for 11 years. The members of the British Overseas ••Settlement Delegation, Sir William "Windham (chairman), Miss G. Pott, ■General A. G. Wauehope and Mr J. 'Wignall, M.P., arrived at Auckland from the Waikato, accompanied by IMr J. Hislop, Undersecretary of Internal Affairs, and Mr H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary of Immigration. The of the- delegation were wel..coined by the Auckland Chamber of ■Commerce and to-day they take their •departure on their return to Australia by the Ulimaroa. jfk&x and Mrs Stanley Bennett (forof Masterton) and family, who are leaving Kaiwaka (H. 8.) to live -elsewhere, were entertained at a large farewell gathering of settlers and -friends, held -in the Tirimoana woolshed. During the ..evening Mr David Whyte, •cm behalf of the .settlers, presented Mr Dennett with a ease of pipes, and Mrs Dennett with a case of cutlery, while the other members of the family each received a suitable present. The singing of “For They Are Jolly Good Fellows,” and three hearty cheers follow--ed.

The late Mr E. G. A.. Hille, formerly 'Of Kurow, -Who died last week at BlenISeim, bad a distinguished career in the :jSoufch African War. At Rhemoster Kop, -where the New Zealand troops had isnch -a dreadful gruelling, Mr Hille (or as he 'fchen was, Sergeant Hille) was in the Ibeaxer corps, and went about fearlessly -and attended the wounded under heavy Are, until shot through both hips him:self. After that, although paralysed r dm both legs, he dragged himself along -fche ground by the tussocks and put a 'Jwrniquet on another wounded man, -who was bleeding badly, and, in fact, Aept on with his attentions to the- . 'wounded until he was implored by them away, as he was exposing him--wtfso mu eh that he was drawing the "Boer fire. For his bravery he was specially mentioned in despatches by Herd (Kitchener, and received tbe D.S.O.