PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. E. Wilson took Ids seat on the New Plymouth Borough Council last night, and was welcomed bv the Mavor (Mr. C. H. Burgess).

A Press Association telegram states that Private Iliroki Rere Patara, of Port Awanui, died from cerebro spinal meningitis, at Suez. Nurses 11. S. Brown and M. E. Jamieson, victims on the torpedoed transport, were formerly on the staff of the (Palmerston North Hospital. Mr. S. W. Strang, who has been with Mr. G. D. Gow, solicitor, for some, years, lias left Elthain for Waipawa, where he' will take up his residence. Sergeant R. H. Quilliam (of New Plymonth), of the Bth Reinforcements, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and will be attached to the later Reinforcements.

Corporal J. R. Sullivan, formerly of New Plymouth, who returned from the front wounded, has been appointed chaplain at the May Morn Camp. '

Miss M. Oxenham, of the staff of the New Plymouth Telephone Exchange, has been presented with a handsome entree dish and silver cake basket ou her retirement from the service.

A private letter received in Wanganui mentions that Rev, J. A. Luxford was, at the time of writing, September 28th, progressing favorably and was in good spirits. He was about to leave London for Roehampton to get his artificial leg fitted.

Wm. G. 'Berryman, of the First Dragoons, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is, says the Press, wellknown in the Patea and Waverley districts, where he acted as huntsman for the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club after Mr. Gordon's departure from the district.

A survivor from the ill-fated Marquette is Private Charles F. Perrin, a son of Mr. C. W. Perrin, of Messrs J. R. Graham and Co.'s staff, Masterton, and a nephew of Mr. Alfred Perrin, Scarborough Terrace, Wellington. He served an apprenticeship to Mr. Baillie, chemist, Masterton, and when he enlisted was'in the employ of Mr. G. W. Hean, of Wanganui. Mr. C. V. Sproull has sold his farm at Moeroa, after residing there for about sixteen years, having been one ot the first to take up land in the district. The. settlers in the district presented Mr. and JVlrs. Sproull with a handsome dining-room clock and leather handbag, as a token of esteem and good wishes for their future welfare. Mr. K. V Gould has been appointed postmaster at Moer.oa in place of Mr. Sproull.

The late Private Charles Crone, specially mentioned in despatches for his gallantry in action at the Dardanelles, was a son of Mr. J Crone, of New Plymouth, who served with the Royal Horse in the Jowaki war, 1877; Afghanistan war, 187S-10-S0; Egyption, ISifi. Mr. Crone, senior, is a cousin of the celebrated General John Nicholson, who saved the north of India by his handling of the hills tribes during the Mutiny. The late Private Crone was less than 19 years old when he fell. The death occurred at his residence New Plymouth, yesterday morning of Mr. .las. Grant, 8.A., aged 74 years. The deceased was well known and highly respected throughout the district. For many years he was headmaster of Inglcwood School and when he retired some years ago he came to live in New Plymouth. He married Miss Drake, a (laughter of Mr. Thomas Drake, one of the oldest sellers of the Tnglewood district, by whom he is survived, and there is a grown-up family of five—four sons and one daughter.