PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram >:Utes that Dr Waddy Moss has been elected president of the Wcsleyan Conference.

A Sydney eatde say, that Trooper s. Smitbers, of the Australian Wee- »]„, has been wounded, resided in New Zealand for several vcars.

Lieutenant L. S. Jennings (of L ],e Sixth Reinforcements, and "formerly ■■ master of the Waitaki High School)'anil Mrs. Jennings („ ( , e Miss Cross, of the Girls' High School) arrived in New P!viiKnith on Wednesday.

Mr. E. Moss lias been appointed as tinrepresentative of the New Zealand Mieepowners' and Farmers' on the advisory .board of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, and Messrs H. D. Vavasour and H. .Morrison a* representatives to attend the annual meeting of that body. In his despatch published this mornijw Mr. Malcolm Ross {jives great praise 1o "Major Holme*," who has done splendid work in tending the wounded New '/.■•-,■ landers in Egypt. This is probably a misspelling for Major Home, of New Plymouth, of whom private adivjees haw been received which show lie lias hem in charge of wounded New Zea!ande. s in Egypt for some time past. By the sinking of the Lusitania the lives of five men who were engaged in the journalist profession'were lost: Her. Bert 1a Stone, publisher of the Mct'o'politan Magazine, and son of Melville •* i St ?Clloral n "»»ager of the Associated Press; P. L. Jones, London representatives of the international News Service, and the Hearst newspapers- Albert Hubbard, editor of the Philistine of Aurora. New Vork; Justus Miles Forman, author, dramatic and magazine writer; E. Roecrs, editor of a Toronto publication called Jack Canuck

Wnvcrloy was thrown into a stair of gloom when it became knorn tint an old and mueh-rcspeetcd settler "i the person of Mr. Watson McDonald Ml passed to that bourne whence no tnveller returns (says the Wangmmi Chronicle). The deceased had more thin passed the allotted span of life—three-' score years and ten-tor lie had reached a« age of (ryer 80 years, and always seemed to enjoy good health. On Sunday morning he attended service af <t Andrew's Presbyterian Church, us usual" and was well in advance of time He got up to allow his daughter to enter the pew, and when he eat down again he threw his head violently baek i)e was carried into the vestry, but it was quite apparent that the sands of Tini" for him, had run out. and Waver!-v would the genial, good-hearted <ill gentleman no more. He was a "rent bowling enthusiast, and Wangainri bowlers will learn with regret of his demi*.. Mr. McDonald, before taking up his n<--maiient residence in Wa verify o\.>r thirty years ago, had participated in lbgold rush on the west coast of the Sown, Island. His.wife predeceased him manv years ago, but he leaves three soiih and three daughters to mourn the lov.s of - t good father, and the town,'of a wort he eitii-.un.