PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Muck regret will bo felt at tlx* death of lli. 11. 11. Street, which took place yesterday, after a long illness. On Monday evening the members of the I'Jtiiam Hand presented (Mr. Stanley Kobinson with a token, of their esteem' in tin* otTasion of his recent ilie presentation took the form of a' silver teapot. Victor Trumper's death was a shock:, and caused tlie deepest regret in cricketmg circles, flays u London cablegram* Warner, interviewed, siiid Trumper Wfta the most unassuming cricketer in the world and at one time its finest batsman, but tie spoke as if he had never; made a .run in the whole of his life. l'ncmnonia was the cause of the death 1 of Mr, Ceorge Dines, formerly of New I I;,month, which was reported vesterday. lie developed pneumonia a week previously, and, as complications set in a lew days later, there was from that singe little ho;" of his recovery. Deceased was only 28..years of age. 'Dr. Charles Chilton, the wcll-knowa Canterbury College professor, has received word from tile High Commissioner. through the Prime .Minister, that lus only son. Lieutenant 'Frank ( iulton, was reported from Alexandrill on .lime -20 as killed in action. Tha hie Lieutenant CliiHon was born a£ Port Chalmers in ISM. In 189T) he was taken by bis parents to Edinburgh, and remained in England and Europe for about six years, returning to Christchurch at, the beginning of 1901. '► Mr. U L. !'. Brabant, the officer in control nt the postal counter, was on Monday •presented hy the chief postmaster with ii. very handsome set of silver dinII r pieces and n case of pipes to mark (lie warm regard and high esteem in which he.is held by his colleagues, botfh. in the Post and Telegraph Office, and im appropriate to the occasion of Ms approaching marriage. The speeches were marked by the greater enthusiasm, - , ' l' Prabunt has volunteered for ac« <i\e service, lie has for long been associated with military matters, and foli some lime held the position of nontenant in the Post and Telegraph Corps. Much sympathy is felt, states the Ohura Advocate, for the family and relatives of the late Mr. T. Thompson, whose death took place at Waitaangtf on Tuesday morning last. Deceased, who was a line strapping fellow of over -IX feet, anil an experienced hushman, "as, if, will he remembered, assisting a. felhnv-settler some fouß months* ago in sowing grass seed itf .heavy bush land, when he slipped oft a log and fell heavily, his head eoming in contact with another log, causing serious injury to the brain, which' ne

necessitated Ilis holwr carried OUt I>JT :t vl:iv of settlors to TCotare, wher© | a whu-lo was in waiting to convoy | It.n in flic lio-'piinl at Xi'\v Plymouth. ! he w.-is taken to Wajunvi him. Alter tnnnv months under hospital [\q rs-'oVi'ViKl sufiicientlv to J'- ' h onie at ChrUtmas time, and, cx- ' | of. in)* occasional touches of illnees, :t -,u-ai'tsl no{ 1:;n,-erious being '•"Pi -'in )>];> i i"]. Ilowcvi'i*, on Suiubiy morning, while in bed, ho suddenly hecame in an unconscious state, from wYeli jby never v-'covored; passing :\wnv ;\t 6 , - I m!i Tne--day. T he body was bro'U'l.t to jn'-Mv;' },y -jii-. t ),<•■< on Wed-Tr'i-ny, arriving during nnernoon. Part niilv of t.liis jonrnpv of fifteen miles <vnM be made h v \ehicle on iviy.vat of •i i'iio 1 • -option oT M*»e road heinrr a six* | foot track, where ?he body liaf7 b< lie ■ !iy the 'I'M Tin- firesral >oo'" '',ve on TluiV'-dav ft emmm in i ! ~e ?vn'e.»l I>ihli ren>.><i'v\- '.f f'tiva. ]>- • ... V '''o Vi r } w. v:"--!) y, (v!. V. \\Q W '.-.r (l f n'■ 1 1 , and Wf e -Mow and one rhild. and was a native of i'-e V'.nliV* inrr district.