PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr .A. D. Gray, of Auckland, arrWl in New Plymouth yesterday on a holl* day visit to this district. Mr. J. A. Scott, late of the Agricultural Department (Dairy Division), hu passed for the Master of Laws degree with second-claaa honors. He i» a graduate of Victoria College. The death is reported by a Press Association telegram from Cliristchurch of Mr. Wlliam Guise Brittan, for many years Bursar of Christ's College, aged 71. He came to Canterbury in ont of the first four ships, A Wellington telegram says that it is expected that Mr. J. W. Collins, chief clerk of the Labor Department,' who wa» secretary of the Cost of Living Com», mieion, in 1912, will be appointed «ecr*> tary to the Board of Trade. Mr, McLeod, the newly-appointed bandmaster, will probaMy reach New Plymouth about March 20th. Owing to the emigration restrictions his departure 'rum Australia has been delayed a little. Private advices recently received state that the distinction of removing the lMt New Zealand gun at Anzao fell to lite lot of Captain H. A. Da vies and men of his battery. Captain DavlcS' now commands the 3rd Battery, R.N.F.A. In connection with this exploit it may Jwt mentioned that 300 rounds of ammunition was sacrificed, this quantity being kept to the end, fearing an attack at any moment. However, it wa* very cleverly hidden, and would probably,take the Turks some time to find. It is, says the £rgus, with the very deepest regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Timothy John McCarthy (familiarly known amongst hi» friends as Jack), of Rawhitlroa. He was smitten down by infantile paralysis, and passed away after only two days' illness. A tall, handsome, powerful young farmer, he was well known and admired and deeply respected by all **\'io knew him. At socials and dances he was always a prominent man, and with Jack McCarthy as M.C., his kindly and courteous nature always tended to the happiness and sociability o{ a gathering. He was a single man, but his death will come as a hard blow to his aged father, sisters and brother—the latter being in camp—and to libera we extend our heartfelt sympathy .(feeling sure that that feeling is reciprocated throughout the whole district Deceased was 22 years of age.

Mr. A. E. H&velock Green, who died from the injuries sustained'in the «ollision between a motor-car and a train at the Annesbrook crossing on the Nelson railway line on Friday, was bora near London forty-two years ago. He saw service in the Boer war as a member of an Australian contingent. For some time he was part owner of the Tribune newspaper at Waverley, and subsequently he and a Mr. Wilson took over the Cambridge Independent. For the past two years he was manager of the advertising department of the Christchurch Press Company. He has left a widow and thre» yottqg, children, Mr. H. D. Pine, another of victims of the collision, was for nearly thirty years in the jobbing department of the Christchurch Press Company, and only retired a few weeks ago from the position of factory manager. He was- 69 years of age, and leaves a widow and grown-up family, some of whom are married. He was interested In a,block of fruit land in the North Tasmaj) district, and had been in Nelson on fusiness connected with the property. The Rev. Garnet Erie Shawho recently resigned the charge of St. James' paria, East St. Kilda (Melbourne), to serve bis country as a fighting unit .of tho Australian Imperial Forces, not in the usual capacity of a chaplain, is a man of many parts. He has seen more of life than most clergyman, and his experiences have sunk deep iuto his nature. He does not take tho teaching! of the Cluiroh for granted, a»d if they are opposed to his conscience in any small particular he is not the man to pass over the matter lightly. This man has worked in an office as an ordinary city clevk, he has followed the somewhat uncertain life of a pearler, lie has walked on the floor of the oee#B, hi holds master's and mate's discharges, hj« has wandered through the fruit-growing districts of West Australia, and has worked as an ordinary laborer in the fields. The name of Shaw must bo handed down to posterity, as he was thci first chaplain of the Royal Australiau Navy. Now, after working up a fin# parish, he has resigned to become * soldier. And it is his earnest Wi»h that before long he will be in the llrinf line.