PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain Bark, of the Rnrawa, J* HM» on holiday, and the Rarnwa is in charM of Captain Pierrotti, of the Cfcelnwfew. Dr. R. Brewster, of New Plymouth, has received a commission as captain in: the ' IA.M.C. and goes into camp at Awapuni at the end of the week. Mr. J. E. Wilson resumed the chairgiansliip of the Patriotic Committee bst night and was welcomed back bv the members. Trooper Oswald ,T. Howarlli of the. 11th (Taranaki) Regiment, now with »li« New Zealand Expeditionary Force, )rn been appointed Seeniid-Liciitenaiii,' vie* Second-Lieutenant Urquliart. Captain W. Martin, late chief offlctr of the Manuka, is bringing tli« Wnlport across from Newcastle to New Plymouth and Lyttelton,. and on arrival will join the R.M.S. Makura as chief officer. The death occurred at the" Thßin»s Hospital last week, at the age of AS Years of Mr Thomas Wildman, who had previously lived at Now Plymouth, where he was prominent in musical circleo, Mr. Dalton, who has been appoint*! Imperial Trade Commissioner for Nf : Zealand in succession to Mr. W. (J. Wi. iclmm, transferred to South Africaj \ il arrive in Auckland from Vancouver by the Niagara on 7th February, The Stratford Post says that yesterday morning Mr. Campbell Jackson received the following cable message from Sergeant-Major R. Wood, from Port Said: "Fit and well—Bob Wood." Mr. I). H. Hill, accountant at the Stratford branch of the New Zealand I Loan arid Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., is at present an inmate of 'Dr. Pagel'a Private Hospital (says the Post). Mr. Victor Davios, of Duncan ami Davips, Ltd., and Mr. F. J. Mnrelicad. of the Morshead Nursery Co., left yesterday morning for Wellington to act an Taranaki delegates to the New Zealand Nurserymen's Conference, which is to be opened by the Prime Minister to-day, Mr. Robert Williamson, in advance for the Muriel Starr Co., arrived in N'ew Plymouth last night to make arrangements for tho visit of this celebrate! adrcss and her company on 27th iiiM, "Bought and Paid For," will be the piece staged, and this same record-brca!.':"' drama will be performed at Hjuvera i... Wednesday, 2MUi. In a letter from ber 25, Lance-Corporal R. P. Q.iillim.i, of New Plymouth, mentions that he »:.* the only one of his tenj; at Tri'iillmm who was then still in the firing line. Dawson Webster ami Tom KirUby hrh-. in England, and Sid Paul was ill in 1.,.pital at Lemnns. Captain C. H. V.'.. - ton was thou in charge of the Tanii.,i' men at Anzae. ' Mr. W. L. Ward, mnnngpv n f 11'.- v,. • of Australasia at Hamilton. );:,-. ]-, appointed to the managership oi' ('■ • branch at Wanganui Mr. Ward Ir been in charge 0 f tho'hink at Hamilton since it was opened some ten yeira a»o, and formerly was manager at MuwiV lie was born in New Plvmomh !,;, fa-i thev being the late llev.'john Ward..