PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 291, 18 May 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Major ('. A. Srott, of Scotland, wilh hi--, i'. iiV, is on :i visit to New Plymouth. Hi 1 . Nnnnan will not lie .leaving Mamii'. until Octohet Ist. '"'•. 1.. I!. Hamilton has been elected :■• ;■■'. >.f the i-iamont A. and p. As- .'■:". Ceor;<o Armstrong, late of ');iun- .; ■■ and ivc.-nlly «,f ' ; l!ii' Niagara to-day for San Francisco. !.e-i;i. C. \V. Henderson, attached f.c ;!ii- rit'ili Reinforcements at Trenthain. ' ; '! o-iii.o a week's leave in Xcw Ply 'if.- new Vieir of IlaWcia (the li( v. C !!. I'';■,:;.'„ Cow.-n) was on Smidav 'ns-'i'i'.lul I.: the Hishop „l' the diocese, : 'i."i.. lie.. |>r. S r vott. V Si'ne-- ci.hlcjram stales that C'aj)- < ■■:; Mean, the medical ollic. r wounded ■■< Hie i).i!-d:;:el|,. :J , is a brother of the '■■•v.io!.wealth oilieial uiirc.-pondent.

\ e-ib : .-.uTai:i from Athens report Mini I-.in;; ( onsl.antine, who was report ;•! to be snir.'l-ine; from pleurisy, is mak-

-Mr. Justice Kdwards, who will preside cor Ibc- sitting of t-,e Supreme Court, which opens at .Yew Plymouth to-dav. arrived here last night. Privates W. 11. Ilarvev and Harden. of New Plymouth, who are leaving,-for the front shortlv, arrived in New Plymonth last night by the mail train, having obiained a we< k's leave of abseiu-e from eainn at Treiitliuin.

Lieut. Pm-hler and Messrs ,1. T. Thompson and Crcsswcll, of the teaching s;.i|V of the Stratford Distriet High S.-hcol, have volunteered for the front (writes our Stratford correspondent). The Co-.crnor, a.eeonipanied bv bis private left Auckland 'for Wellington by the midday < >:press y< stordav. His ])i'i'iii(l of absence from Auckland is indefinite. The Countess of Liverpool remains in Auckland in the mean-time.--Press Association.

Mr. dames Thomson, of Xg.icre. has sold his farm and intends ju reside at New Plymouth (writes our Stratford correspondent). Mr. Thomson was formerly a well known county councillor, and a meeting is to be called by Mr. liath-uvay, chairman of the Stratford County Council, to arrange a farewell to Mr. Thomson.

Thr cli'fitli of Ciipliiin Anthony Wildiii!'' iii action might wi'll inspire an essay on lli« national value of field sports, for tlic course followed by this famous Now /ca lander is the course that is toeing followed'by every true young sportsman, lie made his name in athletic games, 'but the qualities that won him fame as an athlete, his physical strength, his mental alertness, his keen eye, his indomitable si.irit, he regarded as held in trust only for tin; service of liis country, and when the need arose -lie gave his life cheerfully for his country's cause. Tt is a far cry from the bloodstained hills above the Dardanelles to the level lawns <.f the Mother Country, where his skill and endurance earned the earlier laurels. ViY believe that if some curious ethnologist, plotting out the characteristics of the race of Now Zealanders hail searched for it type lie. could not have found one more truly representative of the best qualities of the young colonial than Anthony Wilding. Captain Wilding was an exceptional athlete, but still a representative one. lie had the .physique, the love of the open air, the passion for healthy, trained body that one looks for in the typical New Zcalander. Mentally he had the resourcefulness of his race. Whatever he did, he faced his task earnestly. His victories ho accepted modestly, his defeats cheerfully. And whether, as the earlier report "said, he died in France or whether he, fell close to his brother New Zealanders on the peninsula of Gallipoli, the manner of his death was the maimer that every true young New Zcalander would desire. —Lyttelton Times.