PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 10 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL

' . Mr Alexander Macaulay, -whose death is reported from Dunedin, arrived to Otago in I&>S. He was a well-Juiown breeder, of Leicester sheep, and exporter of stud rams to California.

-• Mr' Robert Harrison, on« of the pio'neers of the West Coast, passed away 'at the Kumara Hospital this week. He 'was 83 years of age, 60 of whkth bad 'been spent in New Zealand. Mr T. Harle Giles, Conciliation Com«ussio»er, accompanied by Mrs Giles, 'are at present in New Plymouth. Mr Giles expects to return to Auckland by Friday night's boat. Mr. Les. Mander, of New Plymouth, ii&s passed bis final engineering examination, and returned to New Zealand by the lonic last week. He came on to New Plymouth by the maii train an 'Saturday evening. A very well-known and highly-respect-ed resident of Auckland, Mr Samuel Cochrane Macky, passed,away at the 1 Auckland hospital several days age after an illness extending over a month. The late Mr Macky was the eldest son of the late Rev. John Macky, Presby- . terifui miiuster at Otahuhu, and the first Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, who came to New Zealand tin 1854.

Mr Charles Loughnan, the head of tihe Palmerston No-th legal firm of Lougn'wui and Jacobs, who is a brother of Mr Hawy Loughnan, of Ohristchuxch, wag in England when war broke out, eajoying a motor tour in a new car. His wX was commandeered by the military authorities, and he volunteered, ana was taken as an ambulance car drive", and was accepted for the front. His son, aged twenty, late of' Wanganui College Cadets, who was wiith him, also volunteered for the combatant forces, and was given a commission as a lieutenant. Both are at the front

The Rev. C. E. Tennent, Presbyterian minister at Martiiiborough, was killed while motoring to Hinakura, 17 miles from Martiubo rough, on Saturday afternoon. When driving from Hinakura his cur swerved into a ditch, pinning Mr. Tennent to the ground. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., who was motoring along the same road, saw the accident, •wont to the tcscup, alod relieved Mr. Tennent-. who was seriously injured, and died a few minutes later. Mr. Tennent. who was formerly minister at Port tQhalmerg, is survived by a wife, and! grown-up family.

Friends in Stratford were much re- | lieved to-day (says Saturday's Post) to ihear direct from Dr. A. Dillon Carbery, | who, it will be remembered, vent to tine front with the first field ambulance contingent of the British Expeditionary Force. Dr. Carbery is attached to the 'It.A.M.O. as Major, and writing from a small village in France (the entire population of which appears .to-be women and wounded) intimates that he is practically in charge of the place as chief of the medical staff there. The place was twice attacked by the Genmanp, and the school, churches and other public buildings have, been converted into temporary hospitals. Dr. Carbery speaks in most glowing terms of the British "Tommy"; his wonderful bravery arid his quaint ways. At time of writing, Dr. Carbery was quite well and very much at home amongst the French people.