PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Loudon cable announces the death of .t|he Karl of Feversha.ni, aged 85 years. The resignation of Mr Charles Ernest fcj+itliaiu was gazetted last night, Mr Kobcit Triggs is gazetted deputy for My Dtiiald Robertson, the Public Service Commissioner, during the latler's absence from Wellington. At the parade of the 11th Regiment (A Company, Taranaki Rifles) on Wednesday night, Rifleman S. Higgs, of No. 3 Platoon, was presented with a gold medal for being the champion shot in the old A Company l . As the championship belt has been lost and cannot bu recovered a gold medal only was presented.

Writes a London correspondent:— Major A. D. Carbery, X.Z.M.C, has been at the front almost since the beginning of the \var_ wit* illho 9th Field Ambulance, and is now home in Ireland on a week's leave. He is one of many New Zealand doctors who took service wita the R.A.M.C. ' Messrs John Cecil Whitney and William Chi jholm Whitney, sons' of Mr and Mrs C. A|. Whitney, joined the company raised in England a;!, the outbreak of war, and are now with the New Zealand contingent in Egypt. Their mother returned to Auckland by the Niagara. Mr John Ray, a Crimean war veteran, died suddenly in Auckland on Monday evening. llu was an Imperial pensioner, who lived ret OLihuhu, mid o-.i New y l!ar - a D ay ne W(Mlt to Auckland with a yc linger daughter, lo spend a holiday in town. He had been in particularly robust health, coiisiderinsr his age—sevnty-eigHll years, but on Monday afternoon he complained of a p-iin in t3ie side. It grew ttoadilv worse, until at 7 p.m. a doctor was summoned but Mr V.xy died before his arrival.

Owing to inadvertence the professional career of the '•runner up'' fur tile position of electrical tramways engineer of the New Plymouth Bo'i'ough Council was given yesterday as that of the successful applicant, Mr Russell IT. Bartley. Tlie. newly appointed engineer served Vis apprenticeship from 1902 to !!>(!« with Messrs. Crompton and Co. of London. From 190(5 to 100!) he was with tli,- North Metropolitan Elcciric Power Supply and Distribution Companv, London, from 1009 to 1012 with tlie Citv of Coventry Corporation Electricity Department, and from 1013 lias held the position of electrical engineer to the Te Kniti Borough Council.