PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable says that Ranjisinhji's eye, which was injuired while he was game shooting, has been removed.

Mr. Richard Twopenny, sen., proprietor of the Australian Pastoralists' Review, is dead.

Sergt.-Major H. Seldon, of New Plymouth, has been wounded at the Dardanelles, and is in hospital at Malta. Mr. Austen Wilson, formerly Trade Commissioner for New Zealand at Hull, has joined Mr. Coghlan's War Trade Committee.—-London-cable.

Mr. Y. Booker, surveyor, who was practising at Kawhia, and is now in London, has joined the 228 th Field Company of Royal Engineers. Mr. John Petrie, jeweller, of Stratford, has been advised that) his son, Private John Petrie, has been wounded a second time. Private Petrie was wounded in the shoulder some time ago.

Tho Gazette of last week contains notification of the appointment of Mr. Arthur • Colin Philpott as registrar of brands for the Patea, Hangitikei and Waimarino branding registration districts as from December 1, 1014. Trooper 0. de W. Vaughan, who has been wounded, is well known in Stratford, where he was employed for some years as teller in the Union Bank. He enlisted from New Plymouth, and sailed with the Second Reinforcements in December last. He was a prominent member of 1 the' Tennis Club in Stratford.

' At Kliama on Wednesday the Bowling Club farcwelled Mr. Geo. Harrop, wlio is leaving for tho front, and preseuted him with a. safety razor, strop, and pairs of socks. Mr. Harrop and Mr. W. Campbell were, in the evening, entertained by their friends and wished a safe return.

Mr. 1). Long, who at one time was teller at the New Plymouth branch of tho- Bank 'of- New, Zealand, lias been appointed secretary to the Auckland Farmers' I'reezing Company, in succession to Mr. H. G. Stringer, who has been appointed manager for the Oroua Freezing Company. Mr. Long has been accountant for the company during the past ten years.

Lieutenant Ferdinand von Tempsky Kettle, who is reported as having been killed in action, is a s6n of Mr. N. Kettle, of Messrs Williams and Kettle, Napier. He was well known in Napier, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for service abroad, being' a member of the Samoan Expeditionary Force. Ho returned from Samoa after a few months, and obtained a commission in tho Wellington Mounted Rifles in one of the reinforcements.

Says the Auckland Herald: —The death in action of Arthur V. Carbines will have caused keen regret amongst! his many Auckland friends. For some years the young soldier resided in this city, and became a popular figure on the conceit platform. He was an accomplished pianist, and made a specialty of musical monologues, largely of the humorous description. His quiet drolleries at the piano made' his contributions favorite items on the programmes on which his name figures, Arthur Car--bines was a frequent performer at the' Savage and Oxybiuut' data, a;

Mr. G.,C. J'. Jordan (Under Secretary; for Justice) has Wen gazetted a member, •df the ijenswnp Bqud.

Mr., jflatice 'lPenlnston, wilio will pret side over the Supreme Court at New Ply■mouth, will arrive here by the ma.il train to-night. Bishop Averill expects to revisit New Plymouth in November for the purpose of. consecrating the transept and side chapel now; being added to St. Mary's Church as a memorial to the late Archdeacon Govett.

Among the latest list of those killed in action at the Dardanelles appears the name of Trooper H. Berryman, wht» was for some time a resident of the Alton 'district. 'Wie deceased was of a particularly winning disposition, and hit many friends will regret his early demise.

A pretty but very quiet wedding was solemnised at St. George's Church, IP* tea, on Monday last, the contracting parties J>?ing Miss Winifred Mary Dickson, second daughter of Mr. and Mif. VI. Dickson, of Fatea, and Mr. Frederick Oscar Aldridge, late of London. . Tto ceremony was performed by the Re*. Neville Barnett, vicar of Patea. Private advice has been received im Pa tea to the effect that Mr. G. A. Rolibie, late headmaster of the Patea District High School, who resigned recently to join the Eighth Reinforcements, has been, appointed Quartermaater-See-gaant to the R' Company, Eighth Reinforcements, at Trentham Camp and by all accounts is enjoying his life immensely, and is in particularly good health. A nephew of Mr. Robbie's, Private A. F. Robbie, was killed at the Dardanelles recently. The headmaster of the Stratford School, Mr. Tyrer, has received word that E, A. Wyllie has just succeeded in passing his final medical examination! and had, gained the degrees M.8., C.B. Mr. Wyllie's career has been a brilliant one. He joined the Stratford School in 1905, won a Board's scholarship in 1900, a Queen's " scholarship in 1907, a senior scholarship in 1009, and a Taranaki University scholarship in 1010. He then left!' Stratford, ani poined the University College at Dunedin, and has completed Ma medical course in a little less than flva years, . p.

Mr. E, E. Wilder, of Hawera, of the late auctioneering firm of Gillies and Nalder, baa volunteered for the front, and is leaving i for Trentham this morning. At a meeting of representative dozens of Hawera and settlers of the district on Saturday, presided over by Mr. J. R. Corrigan, a presentation of a case of pipes w»s made to him. In acknowledging the presentation, Mr. Nalder said he felt it his duty in this time of crisis to enlist, but the hardest part wag that borne, by. the women left behind, who had to bear responsibilities alone: On Saturday' night, the members of the Hawera Club farewelled filr. Nalder, who was presented with a wristlet watch and a safety razor.—Own correspondent. Corporal Wiliam David Kemp, wlio was killed "hi 1 action on August'l3 at the Dardanelles!, was the eldest son. of Mr. and Mrs: David Kemp, of Roto-o-rangi. He wais born at Waihi, Hawera, 23 years ago,' and was one of the first to volunteer with the main expeditionary force. He was with the first New Zealand landing forces at the DarTlahelles, and fought for nearly four months. He was: slightly wounded once, having the rifle shattered in his hand, the bullet passing through his cap and grating 'his head. He was farming with 'his father at Roto-o-rangi up to the date of his departure for Trentham. Writing to the Star, Mr. Kemp says: "We thought it right to let you know of our bojr, who fell at the Dardanelles fighting for tlhe good old flag." Mr. and Mrs. Kemp' were farming near Hawera for some years and afterwards at Wavarley, before removing to the Waikato. Mr,. 6. A, Harchant, Cardiff, ex-chair-man of, the Stratford County Council, writes ,aa follows to Mr. W. Hathaway, the present chairman:—"l shall feel it a privilege to assist in the memorial portrait of the' late Colonel W. G. Malone, Mr. Malone and I'farmed adjoining properties than 30 years,ago, and our families were on terms of friendly intimacy. Wo served on the old Ngaire Road Board district together, and the Stratford County, when it was first formed, and afterwards; and were at different times associated in other directions. I feel, therefore, entitled to testify to his great industry, kindly disposition, marked ability, hifch principles, and views of . the broadest humanity. If an incentive to the younger generation of New Zealand should at any time be needed, jt will surely be foundr in the life and death of the late Oolonel Malone, whoso lofty sense of duty impelled him,' when in possession of all that men hold dear, to lay everything aside that he might fight for our liberties and Anally lay down his life for our country and our Empire, which he loved so well and served so faithfully. Mar it nvrtx be that such a man died in vain."