PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

•Mr. G. V. Pearce,. M.P., is visiting Rotorua for a fortnight's holiday, previous to the opening of Parliament. A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. James Angus, a railway contractor, aged 81, was run over and killed on the railway. In his younger days he was prominently connected with New Zealand railway development Lance-Corporal Bni.nbridge and Privates Bell and Shirley, who returned by the Maheno, reached New Plymouth by the mail train last night.They were accorded a splendid reception by a large crowd, and Mr.. .1. PI Wilson, in the absence of the Mayor, extended the. men a welcome. The Citizens' Band, of whom Private Shirley had been a member, was present at the function. A Xew York cablegram reports the death of Richard Harding Davis, the novelist and playwright, ftged 52, from heart trouble. Mr. Davis was the Times' war correspondent in the GreekTurkish wars and Spanish-American war, ilso for the Xew York Herald in the SoutU African and the Russo-Jap-anese wars. He was also in Belgium in the early part of the present war. Mr. Davis was a prolific writer in the monthly magazines and published many novels, several plavs, and a number of books dealing with his experiences as war correspondent.