PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Romo cable reports the dca.il «f the Marcheso A. Di San Uuiliano, Italia* 'Minister iof Foreign Aifairs.

Sergeant McNcely, in charge of police at Stratford, has paased the examination qualifying him for a sub-inspectw-shij. The deatih is announced of Mr. Edward Richardson (son of Mr. Ruben Ridhardson, of South Dunedin), who died from fever whilst enauaed in missionary work in Briiiish East Africa.

Sir. W. (11. /touch, who for many years was secretary of the '..'anterburv Society for (Die Prevention of Cruelty ho Animals, died at the Ohrislchimih (hospital on Tuesday. I>r. Georgß if. Chapman, a, son of .the Hon. Mr. ,TwS ice. Ghayoisin, has joined the Royal Rrmy. Medical Corps, and gone to tho front. Dr. Chapman was recently appointed a house surgeon at tho (London H'CMpital. Constable. D. J. O'Neill, of Now Plymouth, was aiiion» the successful candidate* in the recent, police examinations, qualifying for the rank of sergeant, after only seven: j oars of service, probably a record for the Dominion.

An Auckland message reports the death, of Captain Cardinal Sainty, foT 29 years pilo,. for the Auckland HaAor Board.

Lord Wellesley, who is attached to the British Flying Corps, and is a descendant of the Duke of ('Wellington, and tho Duo d'Elchingen, a descendant of Marshal Key, have met under the Allies' flag atttieh e British staff headquarters.

Brigadier-General Davies, an ex-New Zealand officer now fighting with the British forces in France, is looked upon as one of the mos-ta efficient military tnctioans in the British Army. Mr. A. H. Atkinson, of Wellington, who Ims just returned from Kngland, says he heard ibis on all sides at Alderahot recently. When General Davies went to the front, an English paper said: "Cocoanutft (the nickname given the General) has gone to the front, and we may expect to hear something good of him." Atvd they did. For verv esiriljr in the operations it was General Davies who brilliantly planned and executed the recapture of some British guns. 'Mr. Thomas Tudeltope, one of the oldest residents in Auckland, died last ■week. Mr. came to New Zealand in pe Duchess of Argyll in 1842. He was then a child six months of w, and during Itlie aeventv-two years Uint have since intervened he saw Auckland grow from a mere vfllasre to its present proportions. Mr. Tudnhope assisted in the_ formation of the Old Colonists' Association, and attended the annual gath erings wJtlh unfailing regularity.