PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 307, 5 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Elliot King, who is going to England to study for a commission in the army, loft Xew Plymouth for Auckland last night. Mr. Percy Watts, late of Auckland, has been appointed manager for the Standard Insurance Company in the Taranaki distriet.

Mr. 11. S. Brookman, late manager, of Messrs. llatriek and Co.'a Waitara branch, was on Wednesday presented with a' suit case by the staff at Waitara.

The young man named W. <T. Douglas, the fireijian who fell off the engine near Moumahaki on Wednesday, belongs to Ifawera. lie is now in the Patea Hospital, and ins condition is reported to be serious.

An an informal meeting of the Stratford Borough Council on Wednesday evening, resolutions of sympathy were passed to .Mr. Marfell and to Mrs. Helen Brown in the losses of their respective koiis at the front.

Lieutenant - Colonel Tracy Inglis, of the Ncnv Zealand Medical Corps, and oH'ieer commanding the Field Ambulance Company in Auckland, has been appointed to an important post on the hospital ship. Messrs. Beverley (plant breeder a.t the Moumahaki Experimental Farm) and Freeman (head gardener) arrived in Xew Plymouth last night. They have charge of the Agricultural Department's exhibit at the Winter Show.

The death is reported from America of .Mr. John liunny, the obese picture a: tor. who perhaps ranked next to Mr. Charles -Chaplin as a laughter promoter on the screen. He is skid to have died from Bright's diease, at the age of 53 years.

At the 'Methodist Church, Stratford, 011 Thursday, Mr. Percy Lindsay Russ, second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Russ, of Opunakc Road, Stratford, was married to Miss Rosina May Hancock, fourth (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hancock, of Stratford. Tiie Clifton County Council yesterday passed a resolution tendering its sincere sympathy to the parents of the late Leslie P. Sole, who has recently laid down his life in defence of the Kmpirc. The resolution was carried in silence, the members standing. Amongst the list of casualties published yesterday was the name of Private 11. .T. Andrews, of Eltham. lfo

was a member of the Eltham Brass Band, and is the second man at the front belonging to that institution who has been wounded.

On receiving the resignation of Mr. 11. Bedford of the post of secretary, tlio Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, at its annual meeting last evening, unanimously placed on record its appreciation of the faithful service he had given the chamber for the past ten years, and extended to him its deep sympathy in his present affliction.

News was received in Masterton on Thursday night that Private Arthur Ward, of Masterton, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, and who was being brought back to New Zealand, died at pea. Deceased was about twenty-one years of age, and a well-known footballer, being a .member of the Red Star Club. His parents reside at Masterton. Before the war broke out, Major E. J. O'Neill, who has been appointed to the D.5.0.. was attached as medical officer to the Otago Field Artillery Brigade, and, held the rank of major in the New Zealand Medical Corps. Major O'Neill served in the South African war, MOl-2. and took part in operations in the Transvaal from March to July, 1001, and October, li) 01, to March, 1002, He took pai't in operations in the Orange River Colony from July, lflfll, to October, 11)01, and operations in Cape Colony from July to August, 1001. He was mentioned in despatches, and received the Queen's Medal, with five clasps.