PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cabla states that Private R. H. Catlin, who has been -killed at the Dardanelles, was formerly iu. the New Zealand police. Mi\ R. H. Quilliam, of New Plymouth, will leave for Treutluim this morning to join tils reinforcements to the New Zealand expeditionary forc» 5 The death occurred at Petone (Wellington) yesterday of >ir, W. A. List, father of Messrs T. G., C. S., and J, G. List, of New Plymoutbj A list of New Zealand officers serving at the, Dardanelles who have received promotion includes Second-Lieu-tenant Alexander B. McQoll, 11th Regiment (Titranaki Rifles). !Th# election of Mr. Eugene Casey to succoed Mr. R. M. Isaac as first division representative on the Railways j Superannuation Fund Board is gazetted. The poll was as follows:—Mr. Eugene Casey 450 votes, Mr. Charles P. Ryan 443, Mr. Henry P, Gtanaway 120, Mr. Frederick: Q, G. Husq 113.—Press Association,

iMr. A. E. Q, Rhodes, of Ghristchureh, has roceired a cablegram from liis son, Lieutenant A. T. G. Rhodes, aide-de-camp to General Sir Alexander Godley, stating that lie had been invalided and had spent a week iii hospital at Alexandria. lie is now well again and is returning to the Dardanelles. Mr. Walter Leslie, for many years a member of the Hansard staff, and well-known as an artist and pressman, died at "Wellington last night. lie was eixty years of ag« and had been in failing health for some time. In the early months of the war Mr. Leslie took a great interest in the National Reserve movement, and was general secretary in Wellington.—Pinsg Association, Mr. R. G. Murdock, R.iistant town clerk at Deronport, who in leaving shortly for Trentham, was granted six months' lcava of absence by the Borough Council at its last meeting. The Mayor (Mr. A. M. Pickford) stated unfortunately the Council was not legally aMe to grant Mr. Murdock halfpay for that period, but it liad power to vote him an equivalent lump sum as a bonus in recognition of his services during the past six and a half years. Tliu Council adopted this suggestion, and decided to keep Mr. Murdock's position open for him. The death of an old Auckland identity, Mrs. Charles Pratt Baker, took place nt Vied, Hampshire, England, last April. Mrs. Baker, who was DO years of age at the time of her death, arrived in New Zealand from Oxford in the sixties. Shu taught, in Maori schools in the Bay of I»la.nds until the war ibrokc out, when she had to fly for her life with her baby, t:u> Maoris having set fire to her home. She eventually came to Auckland and resided in I'arnell. About IS years ago Mrs. Baker and her daughter —now Mrs. Lankostcr—went to Sydney, where they remained until two years ago, when they wont to England. Airs. J. W. Warren, of Hamilton, is a niece of Mrs. Baker, and Mr. Cattley, of New Plymouth, is a nephew. Archbishop John O'Reilly, whoso death at Adalaids is reported, hail been Arclibisiiup uf Adelaide since January, 1895, and formerly Bishop of Port Augusta. Jie was born in the city of Kilkenny, Ireland, on November 19th, 1840, and educated at St. Kiernan's College and All Hallows, Dublin. Ordained in 1860, he had a successful career in West Australia until 1888, when he was appointed to the new (See of Port Augusta. He was noted for his administrative ability and his achievement in reducing the debt of the. Archdiocese. Through his instrumentality the l'a.ssioniwt Fathers settled in Glen Osmond and Dominican Friars first went to South Australia. The Archbishop also introduced the Marist Brothers, a teaching community for boy's, and the 'Good Samaritans and the Loretto listers, a teaching community for girls, as well as tho Nursing Sisters in charge of the (North Adelaide Hospital,