PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 21 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cam-gram states that Dr John Mitchell MeimlTy, formerly of Invercarsrill ha* joinei the expeditionary force, with the rank of Surgeon-Captain. An old andhighly respited resident of the West End of the town passed away on Thursday, in the person of Mr. Isaac 'Morrison,, who at the time of his retirement from the railway service -was cue of the oldest and most careful engine, drivers on the line. He was for seme yoars an active and usefuPmcniber of the West End school committee, and earned the respect of all who Itnew him. His health for some time, past has been indifferent, and it is with regret that his many friends will learn of his demise.

.Pomp interesting particulars concerning Brigadier-Ccmral Davies, the New Zealand officer, who lias boon serving at the front, are contained in a letter vritten by his darter to an Auckland resident. Miss Davies. writing; on September "24, says: "'We have just been to I *ee one of fa tiler's •wounded officers, who gave us a very graphic account of the war as far as he had scon it. He told us of the wonderful way father captured a column. The fact that there were so few casualties in the Oth Brigade, especially during that dreadful retreat, is put down especially to father. They say ho is quite well, but the sjrain of that retreat told on him terribly. At the beginning our troops were, just about exhausted, and had not had their boots off for ten. days." Under date ficptemtber 30 Miss Davis says: "Father is back here in Aldershot. His lung has never healed properly since he had pneumonia at the beginning of the year, and his health for some time has been causing Sir Douglas Haig and other authorities a gfiat deal of anxiety. They said he was much too valuable to them to have him (lying out there, so sent hi nihome Up to the time he left his brigade bad been fighting uncea-s----'inglv for sixteen days, father himself gcttins on an average, of two hours' sleep in (hroe nights. Often he did not sleep for several nights, and was in wet clothes for (lavs without changing. He, is ordered to Cornwall for a month, and can see no one, not even the King, who came down for the week end. and wanted to see him on Sunday. He is 'very low. and fretting dreadfully because fiie is not with his brigade."