PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. Levinge, of Christohurcli, >vho his been spending a few days at the Mouutain House, is now in New Plynw-Üb. Mr. R. McC'allum, M.P., lias arranged a passage to Egypt by the P. and 0. steamer Khybor, leaving Sydney on February 5. Mr. C. A'Court Gpie, formerly engineer to the Egmont County Council, has been appointed secretary, engineer, and overseer to the Pelorus Road Board. Amongst the King Country visitors to New Plymouth this Christmas were Councillor J. Kearns, liawhia County Council; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rothery, who motored via Mokau from Te Kuiti; and Mr. and Mrs. John Austin, who drove from Ohura to Wkangamomona. A military wedding of interest to many on the Plains took place on Christmas Day at the residence of the bride's parents, Oliakune, when Trooper William Leslie, eldest son of the late John William and the late Annie Briggs, formerly of Manaia and Opunake, was married to Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan, Miro Street, Ohakune. Miss Gertrude Dodgshun, of New Plymouth, was married in London on Christinas Day to Mr. Eric Atkev, of Bournemouth, England. Mr. At key was a member of the Fourth New Zealand Reinforcements, and on being invalided Home from Gallipoli received an appointment at headquarters. Miss Do.lgshun sailed for England in November with her cousin, Misq Doris Chilman, uf Wellington, whoso wedding al.-o. toV; place on Christmas Day. 'Die bridegroom was Lieutenant Leonard Tosswill, of t'hristchurcli, who was n sergeant in the Fourth New Zealand contingent and received a commission lu, the Warviekshires when he was invalided to England.

While ill". John Oolvillc Lane, teller of the National Bank of New Zealand at ChrUtchurch, was coming into tin; city on Monday. );e suddenly collapsed and died. Defended was tlie fourth son of Mr .John Lane, part-owner of the Asiiluu'ton Woollen Mills, and was years old. lie had been in the scrvica of the National Bank about 15 years, first in Tiimmi, then in Cromwell, later in Stratford, and then, for the p»st seven years, in Christclmrcli, He »v»t highly respected and trusted by bank, He leaves a widow and one child Mr. Lane had been suffering from he:H't trouble caused by overstrain in swiu.« ming.

Mr. Andrew owner c< Cocoa Island, dropped dead from Ue.°.l(, disease at his residence I'icton, on Christmas morning. The late Mr. Rosa was 58 years of ape. He had reeenti; gone to reside at Picton, until the conclusion of ; the war. A son, Captun Clunies-fioss, is in command of the Union Company's s.s. lvaritane, now on her way from Sydney to the west coast of Tasmania. The Coeos Islands are situated in the Indian Ocean, about 700 miles south-west of Sumatra. Thwy export large quantities of cocou.tU bKd oil; but they will ever be remembef«d as the scene of the last of the Gonmu raider Rmden, which was destroyed by; H.M.A.S. Sydney on November 9, 1914,