PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Waipawa message announces the death, on Saturday, of Mr. Dillon, exmember of 'Parliament for Hawke's Bay, aged 74 years. The Rev. (Father McMenamin, of Petone, who returned from the front recently, where he won imperishable renown for hig bravery in ministering to and succoring the wounded, is ill, and the state of his health is causing anxiety. Lieutenant T. E. Y. Scddon, M.P., left Christchurch on Friday night to return to his military duties at Trentham. He intends to visit his constituents on the West Coast at the end of this month or the beginning of December. He will be accompanied by the Hon. W. D. S. McDonald, Minister for Mines. The appointment of officers to the Eighth Reinforcements is gazetted. These include: Lieut. J. N. Rauch (Post and Telegraph Corps), posted to the infantry; Captain W. G. Bishop (11th Taranagi Regiment), posted to 2nd Reinforcements S.Z. Rifle Brigade; Lieut. E. J. Brammall (unattached list), posted to N.Z. Rifle Brigade. The Primate of New Plymouth has appointed the Rev. J. R. Burgin Anglican chaplain to the Third and Fourth Battalions of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. The Rev. Mr. Burgin has been in charge of St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Ashburton, for the past three years. He will probably resign his charge at the end of the year and will proceed to camp early in January, Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, returned to Auckland from a parochial visit to the Coromandel Peninsula on Thursday. Dr. Avorill intends visitng Waiheke, and will later on go to the King Country. Then he will journey down the Wanganui River, and proceed on to New Plymouth. At the latter place he will consecrate a transept and chapel at St. Mary's Church. Mr. James Sanderson leaves New Plymouth to-morrow for Auckland and proposes to practice his profession in that city. Mr. Sanderson has been in practice as an architect in Smv Plymouth for very many years, and many of the largest buildings in town were designed and erected under his supervision. He was also architect to the Taranaki Education Board, and has acted in a similar capacity to other local bodies.

The Rev. Adam Maddill. of Whakatano, a 'Presbyterian minister, lias resigned his charge and enlisted. He in now at Trentliam, holding the rank of sergeant. Sergeant Maddill intends, if his military career ends without mis•hap, to take a year's post-graduate course in Edinburgh, Scotland, before returning to resume his duties aB a pastor of New Zealand congregations.

Mr. P. Whitcombe received a cable on Saturday stating that his son, Sergeant Geoffrey Whitcombe, was convalescent in hospital at Alexandria, after having ben wounded at the Dardanelles. The latest letters from Sergeant Whitcombe showed that he was still in Egypt a month or two ago and his people received no intimation that he was wounded, or even that he had gone to the front. Writing from Masterton to New Plymouth, Private Henry Sewell, who was in the trench when Lance-Corporal Edgar Jennings was killed by a bomb, states: ''lt was about twelve o'clock at night it happened, when we were awakened in our dug-out by the noise made by the explosion, mid on looking round we saw poor Edgar had been killed, a bomb laying at his head. Poor Ted was one of the whitest men on the battlefield, and his kind actions to his mates will never be forgotten." Private McGonugle, who was also in the dug-out, writes "that though they had seen a number of their comrades killed, they were- all <truck with the peaceful expression on Ted's face —he looked as if he was sleeping after a hard day's work." Private Sewell, who was wounded throe times, returned by the Tofua last week,