PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. John Gibson, of Patea, lies criti- ,lcally ill. ■ ■ ■ 'i ,;; Mr Harper M: ■ -Lepper, of Taranaki, - lias joined- G Company at the Military College at Sandhurst.

Tlie name of Colonel K. Williams, ■'s. M.P., father of Mrs Wallis, wife of ■ "it Bishop Wallis, late of Wellington, ap- . 3 pears in the New Year Honors List. \><e. He has had a baronetcy conferred upon i him. ; <-"£..s As a slight token of their kpprecia-*' "4 tion of the'good time thev received oa .•'•'-$ iheir recent visit to New Plymouth ti.e '*?§ Ohura'settlors presented , the president . !*j of the Chamber of Commcrea (Mr. J, !'I Paton) with a gold signet ring on whicii ■ M is engraved the word "Ohura." '■%!

Major J .0. Hughes, military secre-, , tary to General Godley, commanding tha -.t New Zealand expeditionary force, bos '•; been rather seriously ill since the force •" '< ' left New Zealand, and had to undergo ''- an operation in Egypt. Hfc is now mak- . ■ ing fair progress.

A Press Association message from " M Blenheim reports the death of Mr. Caleb 3 Davies, aged eighty-aeven years, a- 3j pioneer of the Marlborough building 3? trade, and a very old identity. M*..,. '$ Davie's had 'been a resident of Blenheim. ' -, 'ik since 1858. He built most of the «ir- t'l licr residences in the town. '""*! Mr. Leo M. Myers, late of Auckland. ij and now residing in London, has, enlists "■ Ji od as a private in th,,. Sportsman Bat- , % ttthon, winch is attached to the Royal K- 1 J'usiliers. The battalion, which takes reemits from 1!) to 45 years of age. is nn- ■% der the command of Colonel Paget, and ' l S is now encamped and undergoing drill - "j prior to departure for the front. * •.$ ■ ■ ■ ''& Mr W. T. Jenniiiffs. M.P. for Taumarunui. was in Stratford vestcr'dar i on business connected with his elector- VJ! ate. Mr. .Tennings will stay in town un- '** ■til to-morrow. Yesterday morning he ' ,& spent ft considerable time in consults- J tioi, with the District Roads Engineer -!' with regard to the Pomorangi Boad , (South Kawhia). the Mairangi Road, and certain bridges in country below' ' Kolraratflhi, and also with regard to .' settlers' road requirements in the Rere- -V kino district.—Post. a