PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. John Duthie, M.L.C., is, says the Eltham Argus, so seriously ill as to cause the greatest anxiety to his relations. Sergeant Bowden, of the New CTymouth Police Force, who has been on leave, returned to New Plymouth last night. On the eve of his departure to join the reinforcements, Mr. C. Webster was presented with a wristlet watch by the committee of the New Plymouth Lawn Tennis Club. Mr, F. Des Forges, of Opunake, has received advice that his son, Private L. H. Des Forges, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, is at present an inmate of the sth Northern General Hospital, Leicester. Mr. W. B. Johns has been appointed hon. recruiting officer for the Waitara district, and will be pleased to enrol recruits at his office, McLean Street, Waitara. His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, who has been visiting America, is now on his way back to New Zealand. He is due in Auckland from Vancouver by the Niagara on October 18. Chaplain-Captain Blamires, formerly superintendent of the Wellington Central Mission ( underwent a slight operation at Alexandria last week. It was quite successful.

The Rev. W, A. Butler, who has been doing relieving work in St. Mary's parish for a few months, leaves New Plymouth on Tuesday for Auckland, lie will later proceed to Wellington iq catch the Arawa for London. Mr. Hunter Macandrew, Otago Railways District Engineer, has been notified of his transfer to Wellington. His successor at Dunedin, is Mr. F. ,1. Jones. Who has recently had charge of the construction works at Auckland, and before that was District Engineer at Wanganui. Private C. S. Kelly, of the Otago Battalion, has been reported wounded. Private Kelly was a member of the literary stall' of the Stratford iPost when he enlisted. He departed with the 3rd Reinforcements, leaving Stratford in December last. Mr. F. W. Okey (of New Plymouth), has reecived a cablegram from' his son. Roy, who has been invalided to England, giving favorable news of his progress. Mr. J. W. Haslam, of the New Plymouth staff of Messrs. J. B. MacEwen and Co., has severed his connection with the firm and leaves at the end of the month for Wellington. The following personal paragraph appears in a letter from Zeitoun, written by a New Plymouth man to friends here: "Unfortunately, we have lost Major Fletcher, who is to be made Lieut-Colonel and in charge of the camp here. Saw Leslie Hill, who is going back to the Dardanelles with the Fifth. Jim Simpson came over to our tent this afternoon. Bob Woodhouse is with an Australian machine-gun section in camp here.'' Mr. E, J. Kendall, who Ims enlisted and leaves Manaia for Trentham next week, had twenty-one months in the South African War. He rose to the rank of Sergeant-Major in the Taranaki volunteers, in the New Plymouth district, yet, ho has succeeded only by sheer persistency in having his claim to go to the front accepted. We sent in his name for enrolment, but was met with an objection on the ground of age limit. Later on he again applied, and was a second time repulsed, but on hia third application was accepted.— Witness.