PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Cecil Gray, 'of New Plymouth, who has been appointed to the Dental Corps of the Expeditionary Force, leavei for Wellington on Monday morning. Mrs. J. Wyllic, of Dunedin, lim the honor of being,the mother of four mar? ried sons who have enlisted. A fifth aon volunteered, but was rejected owinfc to his. eyesight being slightly defective. Mr. W. R. Hasclden, S.M., left for Wellington and Gliristehurch yesterday. He expects t» be back in Hawera on Tuesday night. Owing to the Magistrate's absence there will be no sitting of the Court at Stratford to-day. Writes Sergt. Bassett, V.C., of the "Au'cßlan'd branch of the National Bank, to his people, immediately after he had been decorated by the King in London: "The National Bank of New Zealand directors gave me a pleasant surprise about a month ago. They gave me £IOO worth of bank shares as a token of their appreciation. Mr. James Coatea waa, I think, at the bottom of It. ... I have ju»t had another promotion to sergeant" (Bassett was a private when he won his V.C.) ' The Rev. E. Allanson, 8.D., whose death in Tasmania was announced by cable last week, was .well-known throughout the Dominion. About twenty years ago he successfully conducted a series of missions throughout South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Settling in the Nelson district, he purchased a sheep run, where he resided for a number of years. After leaving there he bought the property known as Omata Park, near New Plymouth. About sir years ago he went to Tasmania, where he bought a large'estate.—Times. Lieutenant Harold Jennings, R.P.A., who died at Athlone, Ireland, on February 20, from wounds received at the great advance at Loos, left New Zealand five years ago. .. At the outbreak of the war he was in the British South American Bank, Buenos Ayres, and left for London, where he joined the London Scottish. He got a commission in the Royal Field Artillery, when his colonel (Butcher) and Ms' fellow lieutenant (Coldwell) were killed at Loos, and his captain was dangerously wounded. Col. Gubbins, Commanding Royal Field Artillery at Athlone, writing to Mr. W. Jennings, M.P, on March Bth, states: "Your son's body was conveyed to the Roman Catholic Church, where a Requiem Mass was held. The hand of the l.«inster Regiment came from Mullingar for the funeral, which was attended by all the officers and men, and wreaths were sent from the Government of New Zealand, 'With deep sympathy and regret.' The officers and non-commissioned officers and men >f his battery sent wreaths. All ranks in barracks liked your son and are deeply sorry over his doath. The officers here would like to put a tombstone over his grave if you will permit it." Mr. Logie, of the rtigh Commissioner's office, writing to Mr. Jennings, states that Father Christie (a cousin of Lord Kitchener), of the Brompton Oratory, and Mr. John Davis and Mr. Coates (uoth of New Zealand), were in daily communication with Lieutenant Jennings during his illness.