PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 14 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, left for Auckland last night.

Captain Leroy Burnham hat been wounded and invalided liome.

The SOU of iho Bishop of Perth, Lieutenant Riley, of the Wiltshire Regiment, is & prisoner, not wcunded, in Germany. Mr W. P. Schreiner, ex-Prcrnier of Oaipe Colony, has been appointed High iCommissioner in London for the South African Union.

Queen Alexandra was rejpresented at the memorial service to Colonel Gordon Wilson at Cnrist Ohurch, Mayfair. Many notables attended the service.

Mrs. J. S. Young, of Hawera, has just received word from her son, who recently left Hawera for London, that he has received a commission in the Field Ambulance Corps of the Lowland Mounted Brigade, and has gono into camp at Cupar, Fife. After some weeks' training he will go to the front with his regiment. The friends and brother-officers in the Canterbury district of Captain A. W. Macarrjlius-Onslow heard the sad news o". his death with unfeigned sorrow. For nearly three years Captain Onslow was attached to the Canterbury bead office •fetff aa mounted brigade major and instructor in mounted duties in the Canterbury district. He was an extremely popular officer with all ranks, and is spoken of as one of the most efficient mounted officers ever on the New Zealand Staff. Captain Macarthus-Onslow left Christehuroh in .Tune last, and after spending some time in Australia he went on to England to join his regiment, the 16bh (Queen's) Lancers. He was sent to Curragli (Ireland), where he spent some time recruiting for his regiment. It was only a few days ago that his Canterbury friends heard that he had gone to the front. Captain Macarthur Onslow saw service in the South African war. From IS9O to 1002 he was, engaged in operations in the Transvaji east of Pretoria, including actions_« Belfast and also operations in Cape Colony and Orange River Colony. He had a Queen's two clasps. The late officer was a member of an old Australian family, the Macarthurs, whose name is written large on the early history of New South Wales. To the first Australian head of the family, Captain John Macarthur, belonged the distinction of ! introducing merino sheep to Australia and thus laying the foundation of what is now a vast snd profitable industry. The deceased was a keen and enthusiastic sportsman; he was a member of the Christchurch Polo Club and took part in the last Saville Cup competition, which was played on Hagley Park last autumn. •