PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 312, 11 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. F. E. 'Smith, Solicitor-General, has been knighted, says a London cable.

A Sydney cable announces the death of Mr'. Alexander ITuie, father' of Mr. E. Iluic, editor of the Christehurch Sun.

Mr. Broughton, Unionist, has been elected unopposed for Preston, vice Mr. A. A. Tobin, K. 0., who has been appointed to a county judgeship.

■Private Vivian Iforrocks, of Eltham, who left with the last batch of recruits for Trciitham, has been appointed a lance-corporal on probation in the Expeditionary .Force.

Tiie Defence 'Minister has sent a telegram to Mr. IT. J. Barnard, of Eltham, intimating that his son, James, lias been wounded. " Jim " Barnard nas ninny friends in Eltham who will hope for his speedy recovery, and who will sympathise with Mr. and Mrs. Barnard. A private cable was received' in New Plymouth yesterday from Surgeon-Major G. Home (of New Plymouth), announcing his arrival at Alexandria from the Dardanelles, where he went with the New Zealanders. Surgeon-Major Home added that he was well.

The death of Mrs. S. A. Breach, of TTawera, is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Breach settled in Taranaki many years ago—as far back as IS7U they were farming at Gpunake—and except for occasional yisits away have remained Taranakians ever since.

Feeling that it is not desirable, in the interest of Imperial unity, to continue at the present time the agitation for the Bible in schools, Canon Garland lias, at the request of the Archbishop of Brisbane, accepted the position of resident chaplain in the. training camp for the. Queensland Expeditionary Force.

Hi'. Ti. 11. QiiilUam.has volunteered for active service. - He has for some time been qualifying for a commission, Imt none 'being immediately available lie lias registered as an ordinary private. Mr. Quilliam, who is the son of Mr. .1. 11. Quilliani, is one of Taranaki's rising solicitors, and his example in patriotism should not be lost on many able-bodied young men without ties or responsibilities. His. brother is a member ol the reinforcements about to sail. Mr. Edward Pattrieks Joyce, one -.if Gisborne's oldest and best-known citizens, died several days ago after a long illness. lie settled in Gisbonic in IST.'). For nearly twenty years he was a member of the Borough Council, and also a hospital trustee and a member of the Charitable Aid Board, while he was for Rome lime chairman of the Whataupoke 'Road Board. He was also one of the first members of the <.!isborne Harbor Board. For many years he carried on a commission agency in Gisborne, and he. was a well-known hotel proprietor, lie was proprietor of the Poverty Bay Independent, a forerunner of the, Gisborne Times, for three year?. He took a. keen interest in polities, and at the general election in ISO!) he was a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives, but withdrew* before the election. He was president of the Gisborne Liberal Association and a Past Master of the Masonic Order.

Lieutenant /. 0. TI. Jollie, of the 2nd East Surrey Regiment, reported killed in action in the North of France, was born at Patea, Tnranaki, February 11, Will, and educated at Cheltenham' Collose, England. From there he went to Hie Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted lieutenant in the East .Surrey Regiment in 1010, and served with the Second Battalion in Bnrimih. He was promoted lieutenant on February 1-1. 11)12. The regiment was in Tndia when the war broke out, and proceeded lo Europe early in the campaign. Lieutenant .lollie had been employed as regimental transport officer, and was killed on April 27 in the operations in the North-east of France. Lieutenant Jolliiwas the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis .lollie, of the Indian Army, and was a era-nlson of the late Edward .lollie, of Reachcroft, Sonthbridge, t'ovmerlv seenlary of the Provincial Council (Canterbury), and MP. for Cheviot,