PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 131, 27 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Alorton. now of Hastings, is spending a. short 'holiday in Xu\v JL'ij'liioulh.

A Sydney cablegram reports the d.-ivlli of Jlr Justice Cibson, as t-he result of a motor accident.

Mr S. M. Fi'tiU'ii], of the local \1 n i Irate.'i Court stall', who La, been net 111 ' as assi.Mant }«i.,-iiiasU r at Wellington during tile past few weeks, returned to New Plymouth oil Saturday night.

Hie passenger on the .Makura who was found dead in his cabiu upon the vessel's arrival at Sydney was Mr Arthur Clarkson Clarke, youngest son of the late JDr Edward Clarke, of Melbourne, anil brother of lh 0 late Mr K 12. Clarke, of New Plymouth.

The death occurred on Saturday morning of Mr A. Heaver, head ot the firm of A. J .leaver and Co., wholesale 'jewellers, of Lamblon Quay, and much respected in business circles in Welling-

Slaff-Sergoant-Major Talbot, who lias lieen stationed ill l!i u U'airarapa district for some 'time, lias beeen ordered to proceed to England to rejoin his re"inicni, tlio West Yorkshires,

Mr Stanley Hogg, S op iiogjj, died in Hasten on on Jf'riJay liifjht last. Deceased was formerly on tliu stall' of the local branch of the Bank of fvew Zealand.

Mr ,1. li. b'heal'h, chairman of llie Haw ke 3 Hay Education Hoard, who recently went to Auckland, has been stricken with a serious illness. He bin un'dcigone one op.-mion, and awtber is to follow in some Uav«' time.

Last week Mr Henry Jlyams, agvl seventy-five, formerly well known in tinWest Coast district, died at Tioiam, wJiei'e he had resided for two years.

Mr. Herbert A. Cooper, youngest son of Mr Justice Cooper, who arrived in Juigland a few days before I'he outbreak of war, has entered the Imperial Army. He lias been appointed instructor at the aviation centre at l'arnborou^h;

A Press Association cable message received from London announced that Cuptain Lord John Spencer Cavendish. DjS.O., of the Ist Life Guards, a brother of the Duke of Devonshire, was killed during the fighting in [''ranee Just week. He was thirty-nine joara of age, and' joined the Unai'da seventeen ago. li<; served in the Mout-u African M ar and was present at a number of the b 'if engagements, im-luding Colenso Spion Kop, Pietci's Hill, and also Ihe Keiief of Ladvsmith.

Idle late Mr William Johnson, whose funeral took .place at Welington last week, aad during his eighty-three years many stirring experiences, 'lie was born in the parish of Sheepwash, in Devonshire. in lS3j, where he resided for •twenty-two years, and then enlisted in the Udh Regiment. Jn 1804. wi.th a draft of his regiment ,he sailed for New Zealand, arriving at Auckland the same year. He was engaged against the Maoris there, and later in Taranaki, and passed through many exciting cpisod.s in his nine and a half vears'of active service during the native dis".mbailees. After receiving his discharge he resided at Auckland, and, with a few others, established the Uechabite Order there, he being a charter member of the Hope of Amikland Tent, which was cstabPshcd in isti;!, afterwards removing to WeUiii"1 i>n. " B

General Nicolas YliuLmirovitch Bnssky, the victor of I.emhcrg, is no v a popular hero in Petrograd. Though 01 .years old, he is reninrkal.lv eneig.t'h-. an.l h:td served in the Kusso-Turkish and' Japanese campaigns. In the hitler war lie was ch.'cf of stall in the oeeond Mam churiau Army. He received a eolunclcv at the age of J], and by the time lie was 42 he had became a maior-generai. liefore the outbreak of war he had''a great deal to do with I he reorganisation of tie: (mr s aimy, under the direction of General .Sukhoiii! inoi)', the Kuswian Kitchener. General Knsskv ij a member of the Army Council.

has been received in Auckland or tliu death at I'ramfiton, Knglaml, o( Ur; Kev. YV.ymlh.iin Alian vicir of Falfield, ; ,nd fonuorly of Ellerslie, Auekand. Tlw deceased was accidentally diowned in the canal at. Fraiiiipton oa*■!v in September. He was qclimr beside the towing 'path, and shortly afterward* Ins hat and 'pipe wev« I'oun'd jloatin.' in tho wa t(M. Later the body was rocovered. The deceased was 'subject to epilepsy, and at the inquest a verdict was returned to the effect tliut be had had a seizure, and death was due lo accidental drowning. The !at e Mr Chaplin was in charge of the Ellerslie parish for about ]-3 months, and left on his return to the Old Country last February. While at Kllerslic "lie was very popular amongst all sections of the people.

The hour record runner, Jean Bouin, was killed in the war. Bouin was one of the finest distance runners the world lias seen. His struggle with Haunes Ivolehmamen (Finland) in the 61)00 metres race at the Olympic Cannes in Stockholm in 11)12, j u w hich he was beaten by a bare va-rd, was a sight <iw;ver to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. "Sireplnon,' of the Athletic News, in commenting on the race, referred to i't "as the grandest struggle between distance runners I have,ever witnessed. . • • . J?or the first 'time for many years I was forced to cheer. I cheered the Finn; I .cheered the heroic Frenchman for his srallant effort. If ever there bo &Jieh another race may I he pre? ent to see it." Bouin held innumerable French records, in addition t'o <two world's records, viz., 10,000 metres (six miles 376 yards), 30min 584-ssee, and 15.000 metres (nine miles tOi yards), in, 47mia