PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Howling, of New Plymouth, received word yesterday that her son, Sergeant R, E, C. Dowling, arrived at Malta on September 8 slightly wounded.

A cable Ims been received from Cairo from Captain C. 11. Weston (of New Plymouth) of the Sixth Reinforcements, stating that lie is fit and well. The Wanganui Chronicle innouuoe. the death at Waitotara of Mr. J. J. Jago. He was the father of (}. E. Jago who left Eltham with the first contingei. of mounteds for the front.

The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Baily will he pleased to Icam that they have received a further cable to the effect that the condition of their son, Private Eon. Baily, is satisfactory. Though he is weak, the indications are hopeful for his recovery, Major C. Guy Powles, of the Headquarters Staff (Mounted Rifles), is among the list of wounded. Major Powles was for some yearn in the timber industry at Te Kiri, and subsequently acted as manager of Messrs Isbister and Co.'s timber yards at Te Horo, and for a considerable time resided, with his wife and family, at Okato. Mrs. W. Bengo, a very old resident of Grc-ytown, died on Monday. The deceased was ninety-live years of age, and arrived in Wellington forty-one years ago. She left three children, Messrs Henry and William Benge, of Greytown, and Mrs, Wayland, of Kalgoorlie, Australia