PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 246, 26 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

; Sergeant-Major Jones, of IWa, hu jbwn transferred to Napier. !,iii. Lo f n^ n r Cablc e ram sports the eath of Mr J. Wilson, member of Xtarilwment for Mid-Durham *"*

The death is announced of Mr. John M. Clifford, an old resident of Grey, month. He was for many years * »«»- ber of the Grey County Council. Mr. J. E. Purehas, M.A., has been appointed to the new position of deputy headmaster and lecturer at the Normal 1 Training College, Christchurch.

Mr. A. Clark, who for a start time Add a seat on the Borough Council, is on a short visit to New riyjuouth. Jfr. Clark recently returned from a trio* abroad. r

A London cablegram announces that the Royal Geographical Society awarded the Founders' Medal to Sir Douglas Mawson, and the Murchison award to Professor Davis.

Sir James Wilson, K.C.M.G., and Mr. Geo. Hogben, C.M.0., were yesterday morning invested by His Excellency the Governor with the insignia of the honors recently conferred upon them by Hia Majesty.—Press Association.

Mr. F.-Hcaton, principal at the Na-,-pier Boys' High School, who has helcLl the position since the departure of Mr. A. S. M. Poison, for Melbourne, has resigned, but will continue at the college until the end of the present tennj-

The death is reported of Mr. Hector ■ K. Burns, 8.A., one of the Auckland Education Board's inspectors. Deatk'i was due to the effect of heart strain, due, it is stated, to strenuous football; 1 Mr. Burns was formerly master of theBiullic Street School at the Thames.; Mr. F.'E. Sandford, who was the. " first airman to make successful jfltehtss in Auckland, proposes to join the'ltoyali ■■ Hying Corps when in England. S&y Sandford enlisted, at the outbreak: at: the war, and was with the Australian forces at the capture of Rabaulr

Mr A. A. Stewart, o* Messrs Sym«. and Weir's offices, Eltium, is, slmrMy to be admitted into the firm'.] of. Mr.-' Veagh and Morrison, oj th* same tow*-, !lt . practice wijj ty mntinued under the name of MsVwgh, Morrison and Stewart. '

Private cable advice has bseg l racAjv,Q(| in Napier of the death, of Major Hanoi*-. Williams (son of Mr. and Jfts„,lJafc\Jj||, liams), who, as stated in pur. iasue yesterday, was lying seriously" ill: at Boalogne, suffering from pneumonia*. Eeath I took place on Sunday, at thready age j of thirty-seven years. Lieutenant-Colonel DxiacolL whow name will be remembered, by those whii j fought in the South African eatajwigo, i where he wag in cha.rgfl,. off a regiment of men known as " Driscoll's Scouts," is at present raising one thousand men m London for active.-service. On, the. first day of the appenJ one hundred and .ifty names wer&. rejgfitered. Mr. James Wilson, who died at St. Clair, Dunedin, on Saturday, aged 80 years, is said. t.q.. ])«,*« been the first man to open a photographer's shop in, Dunedin; also, tho- ftrst to run a cab 'service there.. He. was bqst known in both islands ft brewer. He managed the Well Park brewery at the Water, of Leith in the early Otago days, and in recent years he was the brewer at' the Egmont. brewery at New Plymouth. Dr Frazor-Hurst (medical superinten,dent o( tho Whangarei Hospital),'lift Whaugarci on Saturday for Trcntharo, en routo for the front. Prior to his departure the doctor was the recipient of a travelling rug from the matron and nursing staff of the hospital. A<[ the railway station, a large number «[f representative business men assembled, and, headed by the .Mayor (Mr D. iW, Jack), accorded Dr FrazerlHurst an enthusiastic send-off.

Cable 'advice was received by Nat. Williams, of Napier, on Saturday, that her son, Major Harold WiUiamA is lying seriously ill at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, suffering from onea,monia. Major Williams participated iij the fighting at Mons, and was wounded in one knee., but he made an cscel}eiifj recovery, and some weeks ago rejoined the troops at the front, having in the meantime been promoted from captain to major,

Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson, D.6.0,, of the Peruvian Army, who has been visiting his parents in Nelson, leave* in few days on his return journey to South America. Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson, who is an old boy of Nelson College, served through the South African war in various capacities, being at one time orderly to Lord Kitchener, lie also saw service in the Zulu war of 1000 as a captain on the Transvaal staff, which he had joined on the termination of the Boer war. iAt the

present time he is engaged on the Border Commission defining the border between Peru and Bolivia. 7 Private Philip Jessop, a member of the Expeditionary Force at Samoa, who has been invalided home, died on -dig way to the Nelson Hospital. He had been staying with his sister, Mrs. B. Stratford, at the Croixolles, for the benefit of his health. A s he did not improve, it was decided to take him to

the Nelson Hospital, where he had previously been under treatment. A nurse

was sent down on Wednesday to accompany him, and he reached Nelson by launch. He was in a critical condition, and died in the ambulance before the hospital was reached, it is thought, from heart failure. The deceased was

a son of Mr. Ebenezer Jessop, of Hope. The friends of Mr Thomas George Brown, of the firm of Messrs Brown and Stewart, -will regret to learn of his death, which occurred on Sunday at his residence, Homo Bay, Auckland, in hiß 49th year. Mr Brown was born at Stonehaven, Scotland, in 18(10, his father beli'fi a solicitor of that town, and ht(d been for 31 years in New Zealand. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs John Walker and Co., of London. On arrival here, lie joined Messrs Collins Bros., by whom he was employed for a period of between 12 and 13 years. He then, seventeen or eighteen years ago, entered into a partnership with Mr R. L. Stewart, thus founding.the firm of Messrs Brown and Stewart, ■syholesale Btationcrs. Mr Brown was one of the best known and most popular travellers "on.the road." The cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage. The deceased gentleman had one sister in New Zealand, Mrs John Knox, wife of the manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Te Aro, and a brother in Auckland, Mr David Stewart Brown. In 1893 he married the eldest daughter of Mr Andrew Stewart, of Auckland, and is "survived by hia widow, two daughters and one son.