PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 264, 17 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. It. Critehley, sub-editor of theNapier llaily Telegraph, Ims purchased the Waipawa SJail.

Mr. J Heslop, of Eltham, came hack to New /.ealand by the Manuka on Tuesday after a trip round tlie world. An old resident of Featherston, Mr. George Henry Houghton, died on Tuesday. He came to „\ew Zealand over 40 years ago.

At the New Plymouth Borough Council meeting last evening, Mr. 8. Hooker was appointed Iborough foreman, vice - Mr. Chapman, resigned.

The-health-of Mr. and Mrs. B. Langman, of Westown, is showing considerable improvement this week, and it i* hoped that these pioneers of early Tara* liaki will soon be about again.

Captain E. A. Belcher, formerly head* master of Christ's College, Christchuroh, who was appointed to the 9th (Service)' Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light' Infantry, in January, has 'been promoted! to the rank of major. The battalion h at present at Falmouth, and forms Dart of the 103 rd brigade.

The funeral of the late Mr. N. Goldina (late sergeant in the Bsth regunetitt)! took place yesterday. The coffin was placed on a gun-carriage which had beej draped with the Union Jack, and the c<gm tege included a number of members lII' the Veterans' Association and comrades of the late sergeant's Maori war. days* members of the New Plymouth Friendly, Society and the Good Templar Oder. ijtfr. W. (J. 0. Gladstone, M.P. for Kil« inarnock Boroughs since 1911, has "bee* killed in action. Mr. Gladstone wag 30years of agetnd unmarried. Mr. Gladstone was a second lieutenant in the Welsh Fusiliers, and reached the front a month ago. He was one of the first civilians to join the army upon the outbreak of war, feeling that an example was necessary. He had a premonition that he would ndt return. The death occurred at Christchurchrather suddenly on Thursday morning of Dr. Charles James Eussell, a very; well-known figure. The .late Dr. Bugsell identified himself with local affairs, and was particularly interested in educational matters. He was' a prominent member of the East Christchurch School' Committee for some years, and was "itleading spirit in the School Committees' Association. He also served as a memher of the Education Board for soiqe time. Dr. Russell studied medicine at Anderson's University, Glasgow, and' took his diploma at the Syracuse University, New York, in 1876. He was a very old resident of Christchurob, and though his career Was a somewhat chequered one be bad many ardenlj friends and" supporters. He was eighty-three years of ago, and leaves a wife and daughter, who arc living in England. It was Dr. Russell's wish to be cremated, and to that end he asked the City Council some time ago for authority to have his remains', burned in the city destructor. Permission, however, could not Tie granted, and the body will be cremated at the Karori crematorium (Wellington). Dr. Russell was not attended bv a medical man in his illness, and it is almost certain that an inqueßt will be necessary in the absence of a certificate of death.