PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Trooper Sydney Jeffries, reported o| having 'been wounded on July 10, is $ Mil of l>r. Kdward Jeffries, W'aitara, ; Mr. Clayton, the new engineer to the ■' 1 Nt-ii' PlyiiiuutU Borough Council, will arrive in New Plymouth this morning. -Mr. Kdgar George Tate Clooch, who served as a midshipman in the -Black Sea I'leet during the Crimean (Wur, & died at Kaikouia hst week, aged 78 years. lie arrived in LvUclton in 18ST. Dr. .Stanley Audi-,011 lu\s resigned the •- -v position of resident house surgeon at the; Auckland Hospital, in order to proceed to the front with the New Zealand Medical Coi'ps. 'i'he Defence Minister lias 'been ad- 1 vised by telegram that Surgeon-General Henderson, who is to assume control of < the New Zealand Array Medical Ser- ■ vices, sailed from Marseilles on his my • to New Zealand on August 1. Ho should therefore icaeii ihe dominion cam' next month. An Auckland suues iJiafc report; received by cablegram yesterday trom Sydney, in reference to Bishop Clcary'a condition, are somewhat more reassuring. The doctors state that, &V----thouglT tlic nerve shocks are not diminished in frequency or intensity, they have not so far aflVtoil the heart. r-

Private Jack Fowler, who, in yesterday'a 'casualty list, was reported as havidied of enteric, was a member <rf the Salnoan Expeditionary Force. On returning from Samba, he joined the ranta of the 4th Reinforcements,j together with a mmUier of other returned " Samoans." Before enlisting. Private Fowler was employed l>y Sri-, j] 'Downs, tobacconist, Wellington. He wate a. con i,f Mrs. C. W. IVtyler, of InglewooJ. ——^ Mr. J. B. -Hill yesterday tendered his ro.>:gnr„tion an a member of the Tarfcr.nki County Council, 011 which he (has served for about .fifteen vears. Mr. Hill has sold liis property a t IlrlMwough, mid b no longer living in the county. The chairman (LMv. J. Brown) said it .was with great regret that lie movoi '•hat the resignation of -Mr. Hill should .Y. bo Mr. Hill lad. forked very hard for the district he represented, ibd, >•.. there was 110 doubt but that lie deserved a well-earned re.-t. Other mcmlbcrg of the council testified to the good work Mr. Hill had done, and err/rested regret that he was leaving the council. The resigiution was iiceepted.

At the meeting of the Stratford Borough Council last night, a presentation, in the form of aji illuminated addres3, was nir.de to Mr. X. J, King by the Mayor, on JKv.aif of the citizens, in appreciation of service* rendered to the borough. Tiie text of the address, which ha 1 been most artistically executed by Mr. X McAllister, was as follow: "Dear Sir,--We, tlic representatives of the people of Stratford, desire to express to '< you our appreciation of your public per* vice?. For many years you have fjbljr and hoaorrJbly filled various public offices in our to'.vi;—nn Mayor for four year?,, as councillor almost continuously sines ■' the inception of the borough, as a mem* her of the DospHal and Charitable Aid Board, and in innumerable other ways you have proved vntir worth as a pnlhP.eminded citizen. Your outspoken advocacy of what you have considered right ' has gained you the respert of all chmses. lii conclusion, wc cordially extend to Mrs. King, your family and ronrsetf our best wishe* for your future health, top- ■ pine-is and pro-verity.—Wi lire, dear sir, yours sincerely." (Signed by the Mayor, 1 - chairman of the Chamber of Conrmerce, . chairtnan of the Board, council, lors and the Town Clerk,)