PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Cable word lias been received by if*. G. Bert"and, of Urenui, that his sou (Sergeant Bertram]) is well in Egypt. Mr. K. Griffiths has agreed to accept nomination for the vacant seat on tho New Plymouth Borough Council. Mr. aiul Mrs. W. C. White anil iliss White, of llawcra, who have been on a visit to England, arrived in Mew Zealand by the last Sydney steamer. Sergeant Claude Harrison, late of the Hawera postal staff, has been given ft commission as lieutenant in the Ninth Reinforcements (Signallers' Division). Mrs. Freeth left for Auckland la«f. night, en route to Rotorua for the baths, where she will remain for spme weeks, returning by the Main Trunk lino. The West Coast friends of Lieutenant T. K. Y. Seddon presented him with a revolver, sword and compass. Lieut. .Seddon was appointed adjutant for tli« troopship Mauiigamti Prior to Mr. A. Sncll's ilepartnre from .Patea for camp on Monday, the postmaster, on behalf of the, staff, presented him * with a wristlet watch and wished him a safe return. In the London Gazette of November 4 it is notified that the Kins ha- been pleased to confer the Royal Naval Reserve Officers' Decoration on ( apta'.n W I>. do la Cour Cornwall. Mr. Wyrm Kirltby, eldest son nf Mrs. A. V. Kirkby, of New Plymouth. lias jnn received a commission in the Imperial Navy. Almost since the outbreak of war he has been serving on fine of the monitors which did such good war!; on the. Belgian coast.

In the course of a letter to a friend in Paten, the Rev. H. VI. D.-anc. formerly vicar of iPatea, stated that in continence of the death of their son. Trooper Bernard Deane, at the front, both Miv. Dcane and himself had. abandoned their intention of returning to the Doirtiiiion. Amongst the men who will o 0 into camp next, week will be Mr. Clmrlei Fred, Bassett. fallier of Corporal Cyril Bassett, of Auckland, who gained the Victoria fro** for technical servjetM performed with the utmost skill and daring at fiallipoli. Mr. Bassett is .V) vears of age, .and n printer bv trade, He is joining the -infantry. The, Defence "Minister has been informetl that Colonel K. YV. ('iiuylor has been selected to command the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, which will rem-h its full strength when the Third and Fourth Battalions now completing their training at- fiangiotu proceed to (lufront. Major Gardener will I'l-i-onii-Brigadc-Major Pres- Association. Mr. 11. P. Wyatt. Acting-Superinten-dent of the Post and Telegraph Depart' inent, has been appointed to the position of Superintendent at fhrist.-liure.h, replacing Mr. A. J. Talhoi, who will take charge of the Auckland ollice. Mr. Fred. "Bannaway, at presenj. Kupeiintendent at Auckland, will replace Mr. Wyatt at "Wellington. The' Chronicle announces the death of one of Wanganui's oldest, best known and most highly respected settlers, in the person of Dr. fi. C. Earle, who pas* ed away on Saturday at the age of T-'l years. The deceased, who was a native ot' Totnes, in Devonshire, came to New Zealand In 1800, where he practised his profession until three or four years ago. In the early days, during the fighting on this coa9t. he was appointed surgeon to the Imperial and colonial forces.

A Wellington telegram say* iluit Mr. E. W. Kane, clerk Assistant of the House of Representatives received (l cablegram last night from the. maimger of the P. and 0. Company at Sydney, stating that his brother, Mr. A. K. Katie, i.s among the missing from the lin«r Persia, which was torpedoed in thn Mediterranean Sea on December fldtli. Further information was promised should such be obtainable. Mr. A. H. Kane was senior inspector for the P. and 0. Company, with which he had been connected for many years. He was wellknown in New Zealand, which he l last visited a few years ago. Of the members elected to the IIou« of Representatives for the first time at the general election of September, IRB7, four —Sir ,'Joseph Ward. Sir James Carroll, Sir W. P. Perceval and Sir Thomas Mackenzie—have been selected for titular honors, whilst one, the Hon. \Y. P. Reeves, repeatedly refused a title. It; is also worthy of note that of the men first returned at that election three —Sir W. P. Po>yeva)' W. P. Reeves and Sir Thomas Mackenzie—have occupied the position of representative for the Dominion in London, the first as Agent-Oneral and the two latter as High Commissioner?. (if the members returned in IRS7 only four remain in the active political life of the DominionSir Joseph Wavd, Sir James Carroll, the Hon. James Allen and Dr. Xewman. Tlie first two have been, in the llo'.uo continuously since then,