PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 317, 17 June 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

J Sydney reports the death of Lady Gams, wife of Sir Matthew Harris, ex. Mayor of Sydney. Private H. C. Marfcer, son of the suheditor of the .Sydney; Daily Telegraph* , has been wounded in the Dardanelles' ' Mr S. Williams has boon appointed a monger of the Albert School Committee, vice Mr. W. Orr, who has resigned. V <J: Ijlatl >™, recently landlord of the hltliaw Hotel, has arranged to take over the Dominion Hotel at Kaponga from Mr. ,), w. Carter. At the Stratford Countn Council .meeting yesterday 4V vote of' sympathy was passed with Mr. K Marfeil in the oss of his son, Mauley MarJ.,!l, who wag 'killed at the Dardanelles. At the meeting.of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board vester(lay a resolution was passed sympathising with Mr. A. H. Halcombe, a member of the board, in the loss he had sustained by the death of Jus wife. A London cable states that Sir Stanley Uuckmaster, who was recently raised to the peerage on his appointment as Lord Chancellor, has taken the title cf Huron Buckmiistcr of Ahlgriot. Trooper Alexander James Roxburgh '» numbered amongst the killed. He was for some time in the employ of Mr C A. Wilkinson, of Kltham, arid was well known there, and highly Respected. Mr. David Cunningham, who has been ' manager of Okain's Bay Cheese Factory for a number of years past, is leaving the district in a few weeks' time to take up the position of Government grader at Patea. Private Alf Dickenson was killed during the Dardanelles operations. The deceased was a former resident of Waverley. Prior to leaving for the front he was manager of the Hawera branch of Messrs Gibsons Ltd. , Trooper George deary, whose death !? re P°, rtcd > was n popular resident of the loko district, and took a keen interest 111 everything pertaining to its welfare, being secretary of the Settlers' Association. Mr. F. Reeve, of Masterton, lias been advised that he has been bequeathe* .112,000, together with valuable property at Ipswich, England. Mr. Reevelias been employed as a laborer in Masterton for a number of years. Included in the casualty list from the Dardanelles is the name of Sapper C. A. Scrivener, who is reported as having died of enteric. He was a son of Mr. A. T. Scrivener, a member of the late firm of Taylor, Scrivener, and Co., and was for some time in the empby of the Kltham Dairy Factory. The Education Hoard yesterday passed a vote of sympathy to Mr. E Marfcll * member of the Hoard, on the death of ■us son at the Dardanelles, and also with Mr. and Mrs. LYwhirst on tho death of their son, ■while fighting for the Empire. At St. Mary's Church., New Plymouth, yesterday the Rev. F, A. Crawshaw was married to Miss M. C. Dowling. The bridal couple left in the afternoon en route to Auckland. Thence they will go to Sydney and Norfolk Island, making the latter place their future home. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., left To Kuiti last night, for Ohakune, to open a fete in aid of the hospital ship. Hundreds of telegrams from all parts of New Zealand have >bson received by Mr. Jennings, who hopes to arrive in' New Plymouth to-morrow night by the mail train. 'Mr. D. Charteris, FLtzroy, has received the following wire from the Hon. • J. Allen, Minister of Defence:—"Regret 1 to inform you that cable received today reports that your son, 12-874 Malcolm Maxwell Mclnnes Charteris', missing from April 25 to May 13. ' I sincerely trust that satisfactory news will shortly be received of him." Private Charteris was a member of the 16th Waikato Regiment, which suffered so severely when landing on the morning of April 25. Trooper Rupert Nicholls, one of the family of Nieholls, of Inglcwood, who went to the Dardanelles, was somewhat badly wounded. The last mail brought a letter from him stating that the wound was a compound fracture of the thigh, occasioned by two bullets, one being explosive and the other an ordinary bullet. It was not expected that he would be able to leave the hospital at Cairo, where he now lies, until at least threo months, when he expects to be shipped home under crutches. Among the earliest lists of injured New Zcalanders in the Dardanelles campaign was the name of Sergeant John Clark, of the accountant's branch of Joseph Nathan, and Co., Wellington, and brother to Mr. D. G. Clark, the Commissioner of Taxes. Seargeant Clark was unfortunate anough to have both his legs badly shattered by shrapnel fire, ' since when it has been found necessary to amputate ono of his legs, whilst the other is still very badly injured. Mr. (■lark was a very fine specimen of manhood, and a devotee of physical culture. I Several deaths of old residents are reported from Wellington. Mr. P.. P. Collins, of Brougham Street, died on Saturday after a residence of 70 years in the city, where ho arrived with bis parents as an infant in 1542. He was a shipwright by trade, and leaves a widow and three daughters, Miss Collins, Mrs. James Walker, of Plimmerton, and Mrs. Casey, wife of Mr, M. J. Casey, of the . . City Engineer's Staff.—Mrs. 11. V(. Curtis, who died last week, was SI years of age. She was a native of Inniskilhn, in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and came out to Sydney in 1833, and arrived ins Wellington four years later.—The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital on Friday of Mr. Harry Fielder, very well known ns the proprietor for many years of a large furniture warehouse. Mr. Fielder, who was 53 years of ngo, was born in London, and came to Lyttelton with his parents by the ship Glentanner, in September, 1857. He went to Wellington in the year 1808.