PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 39, 15 October 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr Edmund M‘Neill, father of Mr R, M ‘Neill, a member of the English House of Commons, is dead. Ho spent his early years in Victoria, and participated in the first steeplechase which is described in Rolfe Bold rewood’s “Memories of Old Melbourne.” News was received yesterday by Mr I). McWhirter. .Stratford, of tiie death of his brother. Sergeant S. McWhirt°r, of C Squadron, 10th Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, who was killed net the Dardanelles on August 28th. Sergeant McWhirter served in the South African War. Air J. W. H. Scotland,MJie New Zealaml airman, who left the Dominium some weeks ago under engagement to the British Government, has arrived at his destination —Bombay, India—all well. According to a private letter received in Wellington he was under orders to leave for the Persian frontier. It is announced that the Rev. 11. J. Campbell, pastor of the London “City Temple,” has decided to join the Church of England. The publication of his sermons on “The New Theology” some years ago showed a serious departure from orthodox standards of faith. Air Campbell has withdrawn that book, and shows other signs of having returned to “the old paths.” Air 11. Webber, of the Stratford branch of the L. and M. Agency Co., met with a very serious accident at about 2 o’clock this morning. The unfortunate man, who was riding a motor cycle, wag returning home from a dance at Inglewood, and when near Midhirst collided with a trap which was being driven without lights. Air Webber was conveyed to the hospital in an unconscious condition, and at 1 p.m. to-day was stated to b« progressing as well as could he expected. Mr Webber’s machine was badly damaged.

Private advice has' been received that Captain T. P. James of the 2nd Queen Alexandria’s Own Mounted IHiles who was reported killed in action at the Dardanelles recently, was like the late Colonel Malone, lulled through a shell, the missile shattering Ids thigh. A trooper of Ids regiment who happened to be a schoolfellow of Captain James asked as he lay wounded if he‘could do anything for him and was met with the reply, “Don’t trouble about- me, you have orders to attend to. Don’t neglect them.” Jims (lied another of Britain’s gallant sous of whom the nation is, as It should be, justly proud.— Waverier Press.