PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Melbourne cablegram reports the death of Colonel Wallace, the State Commandant. Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P. for Auckland Weat, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. The Tiniaru Presbytery has nominated Rev. J. M. Comrie as Moderator of Ihe General Assembly. A cable from Washington announces the engagement of President Wilson to Mrs. Norman Gait. The wedding will probably take idacc if. DccemlK'!'. Mr. 11. L. Simpson, of New Plymouth, who leaves with the reinforcements on Monday, was famvellod by Mr. Newton King's staff yesterday, and was presented with a wristlet watch.

Professor 11. Clement Xotciitt, of the University of Good Hope, South Africa, is at present in Auckland. It is his inteention to make an extended tour of the Dominion.

Mr. Stuart Seddou, who went with the expeditionary force to Samoa, loft yesterday by the Dorset for England, where he intends to enlist in the Imperial Armv,

At the ipiarterly meeting of* tin Petoue Methodist Church, it was unanimously decided to invite the Rev. Angus Mcßoan, of Ekclaluina, to take up the work of the circuit next vear.

Mr. W. T. ./ommigs, M.P., received a telegram from the Secretary of War. London, on Thursday, stating that h ; s son, Lieut. Harold .lonnings, of the Imperial Royal Field Artillery, was wounded on September •>!) last. The Rev. C. Houchen, vicar of To Kuiti, has boon appointed chaplain of Lord Liverpool's Own Ist and Un.l llntlulion*. Mr. Houchcn's commission dales from 1008, and during the past veuv lm« been attached to the Kith \Vaikatu IJegiment.

Mr. Xorman Wallace, of the lilcrarv staff of the Hawke's Pay Herald, who loaves for Trentlinni on Tuo'day, n< on Wednesday evening the recipieiii of a money-belt and a set of safotv raz-rs from the Old Boys of the Nspiei' T.ohnicnl College.

Sergeant Gaffney, of the WrHinj-lon Police Voire, has been ndvis.-d lliiii lii-i brother Thomas, who was reported a< having been capiure.l by the Turks, liu 1 his anil shattered in action, and that since he bus been a prisoner it bail been necessary' for him to have one of his hands amputated.

It is stated (bat Mrs. C. Oobson, of Kaimata, who was brought to Mis? Baker's private hospital in Xew Plymouth last week, underwent a serious operation on Friday, which was entirely successful, and that Mrs. Dobson il "getting on splendidly." Mr. \V. 11. Armstrong, of Xew (Plymouth, solicitor, has taken up his residence in Inglcwood, having been appointed manager of Messrs Weston, Weston and Billing's office in that town, in pl»c» of Mr. 1. P. Grant, who left about ft month ago in order to join the Expeditionary Force.

Trooper I). A. Luek, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, who was reported "sick discharged from hospital, now convalescent at Alexandria'' in Thur davs progress report, is an old boy of the Xew Plymouth Boys' High S.Lol. He was a teacher at the Central £c»«ui fttf <xjme tiwq,