PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram reports that Pit* vatc J. A. McDonald, killed in action, is a New Zcalander. Private advice received in Stratford states that Dr. Dillon Carbery left London on August 28 for the Dardanelles. Lieutenant Leo M. Myers (of Auckland) has been appointed senior captain in B Company of the 18th King's Royal Rifle Corps. The 18th Battalion is popularly known as the Arts and Crafts pattalion. Mi-. Alt". McGarry is about to leave Eltham for Auckland. His health lately has been so precarious that it necessitates liis giving up all thought of business in the meantime. The Rev. ,T. G. Chapman and the Rev. • J. H. White, of the Wellington (Taranaki Street) Methodist Circuit, have accepted unanimous invitations to remain for the sixth and fourth years tively. Captain J. H. Ross, the well-known I rifle shot, who also holds the King's and Queen's medals for active service in the South African war, has offered his services to the Defence Department for the present war. Mrs, "F. Simpson, of New Plymouth, has received advice that her son Arthur, of tho Sixteenth Australian Battalion, has been wounded.' Private Simpson was previously wounded in the landing at Gaba Tepe, and only returned to the froiit early in August.

Major "Tiny" Freyberg, according, to a letter received , a few days ago, has been successfully operated on at the New Zealand base hospital at Port Said, and has returned to the front at Gallipoli. Thd wound was in the abdomen. vThis is the fourth time he lias been wounded. The members of the Hawera Fire Brigade bade farewell on Wednesday to Fireman James Thurston, who Is leaving with the next batch,of the Ninth Reinforcements for the training camp, and presented him with a set of military brushes.

At Dunedin on Saturday, Senior-Ser geant Dart, who was for some time sta-

tioned at New Plymouth, 1 and subsequently was in charge of the Wellington police probationary depot, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Sim, ou the motion of Mr. W. C. McGregor, K.C. Mrs. J. Lepper, of Hurford Road, has received a letter from her Bon, Private John Lepper, who enlisted with the main expeditionary force, afld is now at Galulipoli, stating that he is well. There have, he says, been a couple 6f thunderstorms since he was at Oallipoli. The water came down like coming over a fall instead of from the sky, whilst the lightning was all shapes, similar to what one sees in pictures. Mrs, Lepper has two other sons on their way to the front. I - >

In reference to the recent paragraph stating that Major Fletcher, of New Plymouth, had been left in command at Zeitoun, Mrs. Fletcher writes that later, to his delight, he was ordered to the front with his men. She has since re-

ceived a letter and two postcards showing that he was in the trenches. A cablegram on August 15 reported that he had come safely through the heavy fighting from August 0-13. In his letter he desired to be remembered to all Taranaki friends. Mr. John Swinson, who was seriously . injured in the railway smash at Whangsmarino over eighteen months ago, haa ever since been in the Waikato Hospital at Hamilton. Writing to friends in Wellington, he states that lie is going to Auckland to have his leg pu„ under , X-rays, and he has been given what lie describes as "a month's holiday," three weeks of which he will spend at'hi* home at the Hntt, arriving in Wellington on October 23. Gunner l!oliort Edward Bayliffe, re- * ported died of wounds at tlie Dardanelles, was born in Christehureh on July 24, ISB7. He was the only son of Mr. R. A. Bayliffe, postmaster at Marton. but formerly of Waiau. Nortii Cihterbury. Am a. member of the Civil Service lie was at different times stationed at Hamilton and Wellington, where he was in the Submarine section. He afterwards went to Auckland as a member of the staff in the Chief room in the 0.P.0. Leaving this position he joined the Main Bi?d v Bi (he Third Auckland Mounted Rifles, machinegun section, serving with them till Xueust 2;), when his death was reported.