PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death is announced of a pioneer settler of tho Gisbornn district:, Mr. ' Charles Evans, in his eighty-sixth year,. He was born at Wolverhampton in 1830, and came to New Zealand in . / 1862, to tho Wairaraixi district, .to manage Mr. Meredith's run,- and five .-years later settled - down ■ in Poverty Bay. .• News-has/-been received by Mrs. F. MSSwecney," who is; on a visit to her sister, Madame Mueller, Island Bay, that her son, Edward K. M'Sweeney, of tho Seventh Reinforcements, has been wounded in Egypt. This is the second son who. has been wounded; ' > Louis'Hector-M'Sweeney, who left with 'the Main Body,.received..wounds while fighting in the--trenches at Gallinoli. : Mr. J. R. Samson, officer in charge of. the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, left last evening on .1 business trip .to Christehurch ard Dunedin. ;- ; ■ ■■ .- - " The four members of .the. D Battery who answered the roll of 1869, when it - was called at the meeting of the Honorary Reserve on Thursday evening, were Colonel Moorhouso and J. Robinson* K. C. Gaimaway, and W. A... .JVatprs. Mr.'Waters -was one of the promoters of /•the Te Aro Oadet Corps, which was formed in 1866. It afterwards became, the No. I Volunteer Co. '.'and ultimately the . D Battery, • —