PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable message announces the death of Dr. Tyfonso Costa, an ex-Premier of Portugal. 31 r. Joseph MeCluggage left Stratford en route for Queensland yesterday. He intends spending a few weess health recruiting m a more congenial 'winter climate.

Private .T. D. Tait, son of Mr. R. Tail, of llawera, did not go on tin l hospital >yhip, hut was-promoted to Corporal Dispenser, Ji Company, Ist Battalion Traits Rangiotr., of j.onl Kitchener's Own.

The wedding was celebrated at Auckland, on July .7, of Ali.sk Jessie Darling, of that city, to -Mr. Dave I. Thompson, of Patea. 'Mr. and Mrs. Thompson arrived at Patea -by the mail train 011 Tuesday evening. Mr. Joshua Jones, "who claims that he lias an iron slab which marked Napoleon's resting-place at -St. Helena, and is inscribed to that elfect, has oHerat the same to the North Taraiiaki Patriotic Committee to be disposed of in aid of one of the patriotic funds. Mr. Hugh Baily yesterday received a letter from his son. Ronald, who is at the Dardanelles. The letter was dated May 30, and up to that time Private Baily had gone through the campaign without mishap. He has been transferred to the maahine-gun section. Mrs. Paul has received a postcard from her son, Gerald, who is with Stratheona's Horse irt Flanders, dated May 22, saying: "All well," and another, dated 25th ; saying: " I am wounded; being sent to base hospital." Major R. R. Bowie, who died of dysentery at the Dardanelles, was a member of the Canterbury -Battalion, and belonged to Timaru, being the eldest son of -Mr. R. Bowie, a well-known resident of that town. He was a nephew of Mr. Bowie, of the railway staff, New Plymouth. Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. McDonald, who left New Zealand in command of the Otago Infantry Battalion, and was invalided from Egypt to England, and the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Batchelor, N.Z.M.C., who left witTi The ~K\peditiouary Force as X-ray expert, arrived in Auckland by the Niagara. Lieutenant W. W. Averill. eldest son of Dr'. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, will join the 1 reinforcements for the Mounted Rifles 'Brigade. Lieutenant Averill acted as aide de camp to his Excellency the Governor for six months, and during the past six months 'iie has been a resident student at St. John's College, and has attended lectures at the University College. Mr. H. S. Hiirle, who in November, 191.1, resigned from the Labor Department, to accept a position in Chile, left there on the outbreak of hostilities to enlist in England. He joined the Iniversity and Public Sehoois Brigade of the Royal Fusiliers, and was with them until May 21 of this year, when he was gazetted to a second-lieutenancv in the fltli Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, the regiment which earned renown in the Maori wars.

The death occurred 011 Monday afternoon, at Lansdowne, Masterton," of another of the pioneer band of settlers who landed in Wellington in the early days, in the person of Mrs. Henry Welch. In the days of early settlement in Wellington, the Hutt, and later at Masterton,- many of the pioneers were indebted to the late Mrs. Welch 'for her many acts of kindness and self-sacrifice in making their lot lighter. Her willingness to help them in their days of trouble endeared her to the hearts of j those settlers, and the news of her 1 death will be received with feelings of deep regret -throughout the Wairarapa. The late Mrs. Welch was born on August 20, lH3li, at Callington, Cornwall, Knglaiul, being a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas l'oad. With her parents she came to New Zealand in the ship Duke of Roxburgh, after which Roxburgh street, Wellington, is named. The vessel left Plymouth in October. with Mi 7 immigrants on board, and arrived at Wellington on February 7. IS4D, losing her master (Captain Thompson) overboard at Stephen Island two davs previously. The Duke of Roxburgh was the sixth of the New Zealand Company's boats to reach New Zealand. The la*c Mrs. \\ elch was the last but one of the surviving passengers of that immigrant ship. She was married on January l't, JS'ifi. at .St. .lames' Church, f.ower Hu;t. to Mr. Henry Welch, who died on December (i, 18K-I, After residing in the Lower Hutt district for some years, sin* went with her husband to Masterton forty-three years ago, and had lived there ever since. The deceased lady leaves nine of a family. The daughters are Mesdames Duncan MeLaehlan (Opakih William Brak (fiisbornej, Frank Redmond (Wellington), and the sons Messrs Edward, Albert. Henry, William, Alfred (Wellington), and Arthur. Another son, Sir. .lames Welch, died some six years ago.