PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. E. T. Spray, of Tariki, returned yesterday morning, after a holiday trip to Auckland and the Thames. Mr. J. Montgomery, of New Plvmouth, who lias volunteered for the front, will leave for Trentliam by the mail train to-morrow morning. ' The many friends of Mr. W. J. Chancy (who recently underwent a serious operation in the New Plymouth Hospital) will be pleased to know that he lias sufficiently recovered to be about again. Mr. Robert 8011, of Ashburton, one of the delegates of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association to the International Press Congress at San Francisco, sailed by the Niagara yesterday. Mr. li. W. Fisher, of Pukckohe, late assistant engineer to the Franklyn County, and who succeeds Mr. Brand) as inspector on the staff of the Taranaki County Council, will arrive in New Plymouth on Friday.

Mr. 0. Wilkinson, who contested the Bay of Islands seat in Kill and )!>M, states that lie will not be a candidate at tin? coming by-election, says a Press Association telegram from Auckland.

Miss ili. E. llaughan, the writer o "The Finest Walk in the World," am otherwise well known as an authoress is returning from a ten months' sojonri in America, chiefly in the State of Cali forma. 'She is expected to reach Xe\\ Zealand in a few davs' time.

Xurse I!. Rynolds, of the Jlawera lloapital, anil Nurse Bessie Young, dau"htor of Mrs. J. S. Young, of'Hawera, have been accepted by the Defence Department for service 'at the front, and received notice yesterday to lcavo|Wellmgtou to-morrow. "\urse Rynolds was yesterday presented with a travelling bag by her friends in llawera. '

Mr. !!. ,L. M. Kitto, manager at Napier for the Xew Zealand Loan and ■Mercantile Agency Company, has received notice of his promotion to the position of manager of the Christchurch branch, rendered vacant bv the death of Mr. D. A. Baxter.

At the Supreme Court yesterday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Edwards in chambers, Mr. Samuel Strang, of *EI- - was admitted a solicitor, on the motion of Mr. ,T. E. Wilson; also Mr. A. Coleman, of Stratford, on the motion ot llr. R: Spence, and Mr. Armstrong, ot New ■Plymouth, on the motion of Mr. Jiilling.

Captain Alexander MeXeill, one of th« few remaining British ollicers wlio took .prn-t in tin- Indian Mutinj',' died nt Wanganui on .Monday, lie was in the House of Representatives for several years as member for Wallace (Southland). For the past thirty years he had resided in Wnnganui. lie'was a brother of General Sir John MeXeill, V.C., so well known in \ o w Zealand during the Maori war. Captain MeXeill married in Calcutta. Miss Leighton, daughter of Captain Henry For ton Leitfiton, and nnieo of Oneral Sir Archibald Wilson. Coininander-in-Chief at Delhi. Tie left a family of five sons and five daugh-