PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. C, Robinson, organiser of Unity Campaign, will arrive in N«w, Plymouth to-day, and deliver an td» llress to-morrow evening. Mr. Henry Morgan (clerk of the Court at Morton) lias beon appointed clerk of the Hawera Court, vioe Mr. D, \V. Mason, promoted to Dunedln. Messrs I). Hutchen and W. N. Ewing, Whose term of oflice on the High School Board terminated through effluxion of time, were last night recommended by the Board for re-appointment. liev. H. Smith, who has been appoint* t'd home missionary in the Ohura district, was on Sunday evening, at Stratford, presented with a case of pipe( by the vestry of Holy Trinity Church. Mr. W. H. Hawkins, of Okato, has been offered and accepted a captaincy commission in the next reinforcements, and goes into eamp 011 January 11th. Mr. Hawkins is an ex-captain of volunteers. , Mr. F, S. A. I'earson, who was man* ager of the Now Plymouth branch of tlie Union Steamship Company, and who ha s been acting-manager at Westport, lias now received advice of his perm&» nent appointment to the latter branch. Mr. W. H. Hawkins, of Okato, exM.P. for J'ahiatua, who has had considerable experience of volunteering in the Wairarapa has been offered and accepted a commission as captain for «er« vice at the front. A "Wellington message reports the fleath of Mr. Nicholas Reid, member of the firm of W. and (». Tumbull and Co. for many years and a resident of Wei- ' lington since 1850. Mr. Reid was 78 years of age. Mr. F. J. Morgan, M.Sc., who for two years prior to accepting the position of science master at the Teachers Training College was first assistant in the secondary department of the Stratford District High School, died at Wellington last week.

Surgeon-Colonel T. Hope LewU, of Auckland, paid a visit to Xi>\v Plymouth last week for the purpose of examining the returned soldiers in the local hospital. On Saturday Colonel Lewi* motored to the Xorth Kgmont Mountain House. He loft X<nv Plymouth by the 'mail train yesterday. Mrs. J. R; I)on«horty, of Tataratmaka, a former member of the Taraliaki Education Board, who had been nominated for the vaeaney on the Board caused by the retirement of Mr. A. M. Bradbury, has decided to withdraw in favor of Mr. J. Young. "*l.e High School Hoard last night accepted with regret the resignations of Mrs. B. D, Jennings, science mistress, and Miss Livingstone, assistant mistress of the Girls' School: Miss G. f). Shaw, mistress of the preparatory division ot the Girls' School, and Mr. W. H. ftalham, assistant master at the Dors" High School. In a letter from the Dardanelles. Private Reg. Quilliam, 0 f Xew Plymouth, says that of the eight Tarapaki men who were in his tent at Trentham, only two—Private,Sid. Paul and himself—arc still in the firing line. He mention* that Lance-Corporal W. J. Hill, formerly of New Plymouth, who was recently invalided to England, is back in the firingline. Private Quilliam has been promoted to lance-corporal. At a smoke concert held by the TCminotti Improvement Society on Saturday evening presentations consisting nf tobacco pouch and pipe, were made to Messrs. Grant and Nixon by the committee in appreciation of their gratuitous work in connection, with the fcrcction of the ladies' bathing shed. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gilmour, of Manaia, have received a letter from Corporal A.. Gilmour, of the Sixth Reinforcements. Writing from Lemnos, lie says that his health is splendid, and- he is having a good time. The force was resting for a few weeks at Lemnos before going to the fighting line.

Mr. G. H. Saunders, of New Plymouth, has just received word that his brother, Edgar H. Saunders, of the Second Reinforcement?, South Australian Kxpeditiouarv Forces, was seriously wounded on October 27, and is at present In the hospital at Malta. Another brother, 11. E. Saunders, is at present in camp in Adelaide. Both brothers are married men with families, aged 38 and 41 years respectively. It would seem that 'in South Australia, as elsewhere, the mar* ried men are doing their full share in fighting the Empire's battles.

' The death occurred at Rahotu on Sunday of Mr. S. R. Tavlov a very old resident of the Coast, at the age of 87. years. Deceased had been in the DoDominion 51 years. He left Ireland in 18G3, after serving for 12 years in the constabulary, there, and arrived at Melbourne where he enlisted for service in New Zealand, the Maori war then being on. He landed in New Plymouth in 1804, and was appointed a drill-ser-geant. He served three years with the forces in Taranaki, and then joined the inned Constabulary at Auckland as a sergeant. For his services he was awarded 100 acres of land at Whitecliffs, and soon after his return to Taranaki he got married and settled at Lepperton, subsequently removing to Rahotu where he had resided ever since. Deceased, who had been ailing for some time, is survived by his widow and a family of eight—Mesdames A. Phillips (Whangarci), J. Ward (Rahotu), A. Cave, Misses E. and S. Taylor and, Messrs £ll and H. S. Taylor, bf Rahotu. \

The late Mr. Z. W. Wells, of Manporui, came to New Zealand in the Lord William Bentinck, which in those days first called at Auckland. After diacharing her nothern cargo the vessel tame on around the North Cape to New Plymouth. This portion of the voyage occupied five weeks, New Plymouth bqing reached on January G, 1852. In 1835 the deceased took up land at Mtuigorei, and when the Maori war, broke out In 1860 he joined the Bushrangers, Baw Jighting, and received the military medal. At the conclusion of the war Mr. Wells went back to his farm, and also acquired more land ill the Mangorei district, where he had resided ever since except for a few months in Nelson in 1869. He married Miss Handy, who survives him, and he also leaves a family of ten sons as follows: Messrs W. Z. Wells (Queensland), Chas, Well* (Warea), Sidney Wells (Warea), Arnold \\>Us (Punilio, Philip and Herbert Wells (Pukearulie), Arthur and Decimu* Wells (Mangorei), and Edward W«H» (Carrington Road).