PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Mclsaac, of New Plymouth, tus received a cable from her son, Bejrlniental Q.M.S. Athol Mclsaac, statftfr that he has received a commission. Mr, H. W. Reid, of the Union Bank, New Plymouth, has volunteered for service with the Expeditionary Force*, and has passed the medical examination, A London cable announces the death of Sir John Gorst, aged 80 years. Deceased held various minoi offices in Conservative Ministries, and took a ;groat in. terest in general social questions. The wedding took place at Hawera yesterday of Dr. T. Milroy, of Manaig, to Miss Sidney Tonks, only, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Tonks, Hawora. The Hon, and Rev. Edward Lyttelton, headmaster of Kton College, has resigned. It will b.e remembered that jlr. Lyttelton caused some surprise last year by the views he expressed that Germany should not be humiliated. Mr. John Anstey, M.P. fo,r,, Waitaki, who underwent on operatic* *son»e weeks ago, is now in fairly good lieaith again, and is able to attend to his ordinary duties. A cablegram has been received by Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., that his son, George McLean Wilford, w.ho enlisted on the outbreak of war, has been promoted to, a first lieutenancy. A pretty wedding was-'snlcninised at the Baptist Church, WanganUi, on Thursday, when Mr Henry .hones Phil-' lips, of Ngutuwera, and Awatea (Awa) Lints, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. lints, were united hi matrimony. Major VY. H. Fletcher, of 'New Ply. | mouth, invalided from Gallipoli in December, has been spending moat of his furlough. in Scotland, where foe a fortnight he was the guest of Mr*. Pinvis Russell Montgomery, a well-known New Zealander. At the end of Febru. ary he was at Ilornchureli. expecting *o leave with the next draft for" th,e front. A cablegram has been sent by a number of Wellington lawyers to Flight SubLieutenant Alfred de Bathe Brandon, son of Mr. A. do B. Brandon, congratulating him upon having surmounted and bombed a Zeppelin under circumstances related in recent press messages. LiwuBrandon is a member of the Wellington firm of Brandon, Hislop, and-Brandon, solicitors. - ' Wellington has been dcpiivcd of ycl another of its old citiae'ns*by the death last week of Mr. A.-J. Swanson, of Sydney street. The deceased arrived i" Wellington in 1857 in the ship Cunaivi, and worked for some time at Cruickshank's sawmill, at Upper Hutt, and afterwards .at Castlepoiut. Returning to Wellington, Mr. Swansou was engaged at Bowler's store, in Willis street, which was afterwards taken over by Mr. (now Colonel) Pcarc-e, and later amalgamated witli the firm of Levin and' Co. Mr. Swanson was engage:! for over thirty yenrs with the firm, and during nil that time he resided in Sydney street, which was known in the early days as lloneyinan's Gully. His wife, who was one of the first graduates of St. Thomas' Hospital, then under the' direction of Florence Nightingale, survives him. Another of Auckland's old identities, Mr. John Waymout|i, well known in boat-building and yachting circles, died peacefully at his residence, Howe street, on Saturday last. Deceased came to New Zealand when a boy in the year 1859, in the ship Wililam Watson. He served his, apprenticeship to the boatbuilding, and was very successful both in designing and building. He was awarded first and second prizes for designing the model of the well-known mission sehooner Southern Cross, now the Ysnhel, Jlr. Waymouth also buiU the open boat Mascotte, which won at the Auckland Regatta for several years iu succession. He likewise designed and built many other fast yachts. Deceased served as a volunteer in the No. 1 Co, Naval Volunteers during the Maori War, and saw some stirring times during the early days. He had been an invalid for the past four years, and bad just re« cently passed his seventy-first birthday;