PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 17 February 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Hugh Fraser, of New Plymdulh,. who has been filling an important journalistic position in India, returned. home by the Barawa yesterday. A message from Paris says t!ut Madame Sarah Bernhardt has had a ( serious operation owing to an injury to her knee while acting. It is retorted that the leg (has been amputated. Mr C. H. D. Oanavon, officer-in-chargo of the Wellington Telephone Exchange, and Mrs Caliavon, are r.c-v'm'.z-ing New Plymouth, and intend spending part of their holiday at the Mountain House. The Hon. S. Thome-George has boa re-elected chairman of director* of tha New Zealand Insurance .Company, and Mr L. J. Bagnall ,deputy-cliainnan. Mr • Charles Khouei was re-elected a director. It is reported that Mrs Oarew-Thomaa» of Mangawe'ka, has-been advised by a. JJcndon firm of solicitors' that she ha* inherited a large sum of money/Ami also that after tho death of her aunt, * very old lady, a still larger sum will fall to her share. —■ The death j s announced of Mr Joseph. Tiuley, of Mangatara, Hawke's Bay, who was an old colonist, and in.the early days wag associated with the late Mr ■-Tiffin in a survey of the province. H» did good service' with the 65th in the Maori Wars. ' The New Zealand Herald $f Monday contains ,the announcement oltho death on Sunday, at Grafton Hood, of Mrs Collis, mother of Mr W. A. Collis, aged 82 years. Mrs Collis was for manyyears a resident of New Plymouth, whore ihe was a prominent worker iu many philanthropic and similar movements. Major Eenty, attached to th c Bawer* Defence Office, has been accepted for st i vice, and will leave for the Trentham camp shortly. Major Henty was appointed second in command of the Wellington mounted division of the maia body, but for private reasons he was at that time unable to accept the appointment ' Mi' Joim McQuade„a resident of Wollington for many years, died in tho Hospital on Sunday night. Deceased was Lorn in Kendal, ; .Lancashire, 7t) years ago, and was brought up to a seafaring life. As a # young man ho -went to America and took part in the Civil War.. About half a centmy ago he arrived in New Zealand, and with manv thousands of othera tried his luck on the West C'oast gold'ields.

A Wellington message states that the lcllowiag appointments have been made to the Expeditionary Force now in Lgypt:—Major Hughes, camp commandant; Major Shawe, 3rd grade General Stair officer; Captain Moore, in conimand of the Otago Infantry Battalion, i s granted the temporary rank <if Lieut.-Colonci, and Captain fiejd las teen granted Dhe temporary rank of Major, Dr C. E. Maguire,' medical sUperintfndent of th 0 Auckland District Hospital, who vraa recently granted one year's leave of absence, 'having volunteered for service at tine front, leaves Auckland for the Trett&am Camp today Dr,. Maguire, having ,been a'ttadhsd! to the troops in Southern Algeria for about five years, where he saw activeservice, felt it to ,be his duty, under the: circumstances, to place his services at the disposal of the Government. Dr. A. McGregor Grant, of the resident niedical staff, will act as medical superii.tendent during Dr. Maguire's absence.

In announcing the death of Prebendary William Selwyn, the Guardian (London) states that he was the lart survivor of the party that sailed from Plymouth m December, 1841, with the first Bishop 0 f New Zealand. Born at Eton on March -27, 1840, he was consequently only a child of 18 months when he started on the long six months' voyage to that then almost unknown land, where he remained till, as a boy of nine, he was sent back to England in H.M.S. Dido. He was sent to Eton, where he gamed, and throughout his life retained, that passionate affection which the famous old school seems, abo->"- au others, to inspire, and *.e formed friendships which last< to his deatfc. From Eton, after „ short visit to his parents in Fc-.y Zealand, he went to St: John's C:'.iege, Cambridge, and 'v": _-x----dain~i deacon at "ppointed to 1 T ; 0 curacy of Chaddcsley Corbet.t. „ear Kidderminster. In ''... sar.-.a year he married H°~'-i.. .uaughterof the Rev ij.tLrose Stewart, and ii 'CCi ne was appointed Vicar of P-vai-field, Salop, where during 41 •.•?&> B he executed the office of r r '..-t of a country parish. x't'Z to 189!) he was secretary "i.u t.'iasurer of the Melanesian T.iission, af which \ his younger bi-'",er Johr. was consecrated Bishop in