PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs H. Stacker nml James Clarke, of New Plymouth, have boon appoint*! Justices of the PeaceSir T. A. Coghlan retires oil SaturdayHe lias accepted the position of chairman of the War Office Trade Committee. Mr, .James (iraut, of Hawera, and Mr. John lialsillie, of Pulmcrston North, have consented to judge a ploughing match to bo held at .Marton shortly. The Prime Minister has stated'that (lie term of the appointment of the Hon. T. Mackenzie as High Commissioner forl New Zealand in London has been extend-' ed by one year. Mr. W. S. Glenn has decided to go 13 the front. Although he now resides in Wanganui, his relations are here, and Taranaki claims him as one of its sons, and will wish him safety and success. Constable Fit/gibbon, on the occasion of his leaving Jnglewood to take up his duties in New Plymouth, was presented by tho citizens with a gold hunting watch and sovereign case. Private Henry Ernest O'Brien, who has been killed in action at tho Dardanelles, is a son of Mrs. F. O'Brien, of New Plymouth. Private O'Brien spent many years in New Plymouth, and before go. | ing to the war he was manager of a sheep run near Gisborne. , Mr, 11. Holland, Mayor of Chriatehurch, is paying a short visit to Hawcra. He has been much interested in the various municipal activities in progress, and spent part or yesterday with the borough engineer in having a look round the town. According to letters recently received from Egypt, Lady (Jodley is doing great service in tending the wounded- Ne*? Zealanders from the Dardanelles. When the mail left she had already been instrumental in establishing two conva!- ■ escent homes, one at Cairo and the other at Alexandria, and had been active in getting many of her English friends to billet convalescents. Corporal Donald Lane, reported killed in action at the Dardanelles, was the son of Mi'. Wm, Lane, editor of the New Zealand Herald. He was an Auckland Urammar School boy, studied agriculture at Lincoln College, and was gaining surveying experience at Hamilton when the war broke out. He joined tho First Expeditionary Force as a private, buJ was appointed a corporal of tho Waikato Company before.the force left. Major A. E. Belcher, M A,, late headmaster of Christ's College, New Zealand, who arrived in England in January, after travelling through Japan and America studying educational and political matters, was gazetted captain the Oth Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, in January, and promoted major the following month. Ho was in camp at Falmouth when the last mail left England. The list of casualties published yesterday included the name of Lance-Corporal Jack Scales, killed in action, who was the second son of Air. (J. H. Scales of Wellington. Deceased, who was born at ITutt, wa-■ twenty-three years of agfl. He attended the Lower Ilutt school, and a I lei wards the Wellington College. Prior to enlisting he was engaged in farming in (he Wdirarapa. Mr. <(. H. Scales' two other sons are with the New Zcalani forces. The following officers have been appointed to tiie No. '2 New Zealand Stationary Hospital for service abroad; —■' Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry I'arkcs, M.D., F.I! C.S., Edinburgh;' Major Thomas Copeland Savage, F.B.C. S„ England; Major Charles Evans Maguire, MD.C.AL: Captain Fred. Thompson liowerbank. M.D.M.S.; Captain Francis Liddenlale Seott, M.D.AIS; Captain Thomas Fergus. F.8.C.5., Edinburgh; Captain Wilfred Stanley WallU, M.Ii.C.AL; Lieutenant (Quartermaster) ii'eorgc Purely, A very large number of letters :m-i telegrams of condolence and svinpafliy have reached the lion. James Alien. Min. ister for Defence, in conned ion with fiia death of bis son, Lieutenant'J. 11. Alien, who was reported killed in action a I t lie Dardanelles. Among the telegram-.- is one J'rom the Keeper of (lie Privy Purse, expressing. the regret of Their Majesties the King and Queen at the loss the Minister ani". the Army have sustained. Th-3 eoniiytimler .of the New Zaland forces at the front has cabled the Condolence ol 11ims.-If and his command. On behalf of the officers and men in camp at Trentham, the camp commandant sent a telegram of condolence to the Minister, exptessing their deepest sympathy. The Minister replied: "1, am deeply fffatgfjjl* -■