PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Ai London cable message states that Captain Edward Lycett Lyon, of the ISth Hussars, one of Lord Liverpool's A.'sD.C., has been wounded. The death occurred at a private hospital in Now Plymouth yesterday of -Mrs. ITalcomhe, wife of .Mr. A. H. Halcombe, of Urenui, Mrs. llaleombe had been seriously ill for some time 'previously. Much sympathy will be felt for Mr. llaleombe in his loss. No less than thra sons ol Sir ec.hu and Lady Findlay hold iomini«.-ii.iis in the Imperial Anuy Mr •.Vilfre.l J :r,dlay is a second .ieutoasvit in the King's Ttoyal Rifle Corps. Mr. Lloyd Findlay is a second lieucena'it in the 7t.li Hast Surreys,' and expects to leave for the front very shprtly, and Mr. Tan Findlay is a second lieutenant in the King's liattalion of the Special llr-ii've of the Yorks and Lanes l';er<ii:icnr.. Lieutenant 11. B. Clunics Ross, who, prior to the outbreak of war was on the literary staff of the Sydney Mornin" Herald, is shortly leaving Sydney for the front with the Light Horse. 'Lieutenant Ttoss is a member of the wellknown family owning Cocos-Keeling Island, visited by the Eniden, and' ha* brothers in New Zealand. He is also a nephew of Mr. Martin Donohoe, tile wellknown war correspondent now at the front, who was himself a Sydney journalist at one period of bis career.