PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 1 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Senhor Arriaga, the President of- Portugal, has resigned. A LonSon cable states that Captain C. Nelson, of the 15th Hussars, formerly of the New Zealand Forces, has been wounded in France. A London caMe states that Mr. Gillies, the well-known New Zealand golfer, has been appointed chief surgeon of a Belgian field hospital. A Copenhagen cablegram states that Nerr Ballin, chairman of tho HamburgAmerica Line, has been removed to a nerve clinic at Frankfort-on-Main. His condition Is serious, ■Mr, Eliot King, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Newton King, leaves on Friday for Auckland, en route to England, where it is his intention to qualify for a commission in the army.- He will sail by the Riverina on Tuesday, and at Sydney lie will join the P. and 0. boat Egypt for Home. Mr. Sidney Burgess, manager of Messrs. Burgess, Eraser and Co.'s Hawera branch, was presented ■with a safety razor, a case of pipes and a tobacco pouch, prior to going to the front. Mr. Burgess leaves Hawera on Friday, and proceeds to Trentham next week. Mr. Burgess has a brother with the Australians at the Dardanelles. We understand, says a Wanganui paper, that Master Haydn Beck, who' proceeded to London to continue his studies after the sacking of Belgium by the Germans, is returning to NewZea"land. The trustees of the Haydn Beck Fund deemed is desirable, in consequence of the war, to recall the young musician to Wanganui, with the intention of sending liini back to Belgium to his old master in Brussels after the war. Haydn is believed to have left England by the Remuera on May 1. iA veteran of the Maori war, in the person of Sergeant Patrick Hoy, died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland," on Wednesday last. The deceased, who had reached the age of 88 years, came to the colony as long ago as 1840. He was an old member of the 65th Regiment, and served in numerous engagements during the Maori war. He subsequently took up his residence in the Whitianga district, and finally retired to end his days in the Veterans' Home. The interment took place yesterday with military honors at Waikaraka Cemetery. An old pioneer, Mr. 'George Byford, died at the advanced age of eighty-five at Meanee on Tuesday last. The' late Mr. Byford was born at Foxearth, .Suffolk, England, and came i,o Australia in 1893. He was a member of the mounted police at the time of the Ballarat. rising. Later he came, to New Zealand in 1801 and served in the 40th Foot, in tlie Maori War. He was well-known in the Otago district, as also in llawkc'.s Bay. He left four sons, two resident in Napier, one in Gisbornc and one in Australia, and one daughter (Mrs. Hagen, of Meanee).