PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3985, 19 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr W. A. o’Meara yesterday received a cable from Ins son, Trooper £>. A. O’Meara, who is on a troopship eri route to the front. The cable was despatched from Born bay. India, and contained the one word “Well.” The many friends of Mrs Albrecht, who has been, an inmate of Rosstrevor ]>rivate hospital for some days past., will be pleased to hear that she is now almost completely recovered, and poets to leave the institution within a few flays.

Captain Hawke, oi the Union S_>. Co.'s tender Tunica, who has been on the sick list- for a few days past, has much improved in health, and hi-, familiar form should he seen on thbridge again ere many days have passed. Mr AA’. A. ],()«•, the popular advance agent, arrived on Saturday morning to make arrangements for "The Red. Dandies,” who open at His Majesty'-: Theatre on Saturday night next. M>Dow is domiciled at the Gisborne Hotel. Mr 1). G. Robertson Crow n Lands i anger, left for AVeli'kngion by tiie s.s. Warrimoo last night, to act as local delegate , at the Civil Service Association’s conference, whr.lt opens to-morrow. Our AA'ellington correspondent wires, that Sir Joseph Ward has received word that his sons. Messrs A in cent and Gladstone AA’ard, have arrived in England, and having passed their examinations. have obtained commissions in the army.

News has been received in Wellington. says our AA'ellington correspondent. that .Major AA'. J. Hardham. V.C.. who was wounded at the Dardanelles on June 3, has,been discharged from hospital at Cairo and is now In one of the convalescent homes.

vSergt. H. F. AYhiioley, who was among the wounded men who returned by the s.s. AA'illoehra last week, is a brother of Mrs H. S. Rose, ot Lowe Street, Gisborne. He was a reservist. and was called up at the comment of the war, joining the Army Service Corps in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Sergt. Whiteley was an experienced soldier, having spent several years at Aldershot in tho Army Service Corps, and also having served through the Boer war. Hi* was seriously wounded while packing ammunition and- food on mules to the firing line at tlie Dardanelles.