PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Colonel Robin, Acting Coiumiindaat of the forces, has been promoted to Brigadier-General, and LieiilcnantCdlonel Gibbon, Acting Chief of tho General Staff, to the rank of colonel in the New Zealand defence force.*. A passenger by the Maitai from Am-'riea was Mr. K. J. (ireenstreet, a cousin of Captain {ireenstreet, of tho Uemuera, who is returning to New Zealand from Canada after an absence o( 22 years. Mr. Greenstreet came originally from Christchureh.—Pros* Association.

The resignations of Dr. 1). F. Myers, J. A. Marshall, and S. Haslett, house surgeons, and Dr. W. McCaw, honorary physician, Children's Hospital, and Sister B. Huddlestone (whose services have been accepted by the military authori-" ties) have been regret by the Wellington Hospital and Charitable \ Aid Board. f Lieutenant Alan Rout, son of Mi. Wiu. 1 Rout, of Nelson, was wounded at the / ■; Dardanelles on the fith inst., but "io word has yet been received as to the nature of his injuries, or where he is. Kducatod at Nelson College and Waitaki High School, Lieutenant Rout studied architecture, and is an Associate of tlin j New Zealand Institute of Architects. 1 Some of the wounded troopers, in their letters received by the last muil,. report that Colonel (J, Malone, in command of the infantry at Cuba Tepe, was shot dead. This misapprehension .; * probably arises from the fact that <it the landing the gallant Colonel sustained I a neck wound from a spent bullet or * shrapnel. The wound, happily, was not serious, and, after being attended to by Surgeon-Major Home, lie proceeded lu the firing line, and has been in tho thick of it ever since. , 'A Wellington telegram «(vys: Includ- . od in the passengers' by the Maitfll from America, yesterday js Arc.hbish'"-' c Redwood who is returning to vr ( . land iiHcy- th.ii'tpoa w""" ~e w zo'aCirace,'' iittuu.l"-' ■ _ iUia - abs 'p ncCi y i3 ill **"' .... the Marist Conference . ..tiice afterwards proceeding to c Rome, where he had an audience with n the Pope. Archbishop Redwood also t travelled through Spain, and thence pro- ... ceeded to America. While in Rome he .. met Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, a „ well-known local mm, who has done much in the cause of charity here. The death is recorded of Mr. J. \V, Cliisholm, a well-known resident of W'l' Hngton, in his SRlli year. TTie deceased, who arrived there in the ycar.lßs4, has, f with tho exception of s'even or eig.it j years spent in Waiiganui, resided "in j Wellington ever since, In his younger , days Mr, Cliisholm was actively concerned in volunteering, and was considered to be one of Wellington's crack rifle ' shots. When Wellington was threatened by an invading force of Maoris from th-> Most Coast he was one of the party of settlers who went out to Porinn to jntercept them, but the attack wits nov>r I made. At the ,'..>' of <m ' '& Whiti r'Ving in 1881 he was ft color sergeant in • the Manaia Rifles. For gome years li> lVfts a local preacher attached (o the Tanuiaki Wesleyan Church. Writing to a New Plymouth resident, a Wellington man says' (he Minister i.f Defence has been "hard hit" over llio death of his son, Lieutenant Allen. He was a New Zen lander born, ami was 2.5 years of age. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, and subsequently went to Cambridge University, where he was a brilliant student in law and economies, taking honors. Subsequently he went to Oxford University, where be achieved the high-distinction or being elected president of the Union, tho great debating society of tho University. He took a deep interest in political matters, especially from the Imperial viewpoint, and for a time was associated with Mr. Lionel Curtis in the control of tho ''Round Table," the well-known Imperial review. A little more than a yeaago, Lieutenant Allen returned to'the Dominion, and passed his examination* in New Zealand law. He then went back to England, where he passed hid litial law examinations in an unusually short period, qualifying as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. It is a national misfor tunc to lose such brilliant yonng men and the sympathy of New' Zcahutde.-i will go out, to the Hon J. Allen and his wife and family in their great loss - The death of .lames Way on Saturday evening, in his 7-Mli a ear, severs the last link of the 7<ith Regiment with the Taranaki veterans. The deceased veter an had been in indifferent health for the last twelve months, but it was only on Wednesday last that he took to hi-, bed, and he passed away peacefully in bis sleep in the presence of all of bis family. As a private in the. 70th he was engaged in the Juust India trouble, and afterwards landed in Auckland in 18(53, taking part in the Maori war in tho Waikalo and Taranaki districts. When the 7olh was ordered borne he obtained his discharge and .settled in New Plymouth,' vhe.v he has resided ever since. He was predeceased by his wife 20 years ago, and mar.ied a-rain later. Deceased was one of the oldest Foresters in Tarainki, being a member of Court Taranaki. anil also a member of the Veterans' Association. He Kaves ' a widow and five married sons and daughters to mourn their lo^s—Alfred, t »•, , Henry, William (New Plymouth), Ar- * «*j thur'(-Marlon), Krnest (Keildin-il, Mrs. J. Phelps (..Wihm-ton), and Mrs. R. Evans (New Plymouth 1. The funeral will leave nis late resideii-e. iioion Street East,, at 2.30 o'clock t'-.i; uftcrgpon.