PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

T)r. P. Truby King has been granted the honorary rank of major in the New Zealand Medical Corps for the period of the war. Mr. 3. Lynch, who has been appointed foreman under the Parihaka Koad Board was oil Tuesday presented by his f' How workmen on the Borough Council with a travelling rug. At the monthly meting of Mount Egmont lodge, held last night, Bro. Ritchie and Watts, who are shortly leaving for the front, and Bro. Arnold, who lias been transferred to Christchurch, were farewelled. At ,< meeting of the directors of the TTawei"i Dairy Co., held on Tuesday, a vote of condolence with the widow of the late Mr. W. Hooper, of Tokaora, was carried in silence, the members standing. Two Hawera lads were among yesterday's list of those in action. They were Privates Percy E. Bailey and L. M. Taylor. Among the wounded, Private R* W. Hamblyn is a Midhirst hoy. P;!vate .1. M. Goldup belongs to Toko, ard Rifleman Owen D. Kinsella is from New Plymouth. Mr. y B. Fletcher, of the Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile staff at Stratford, while attending to his car yesterday, was seized by a sudden faintness, Hid fell, striking his head on the radiator After being attended to ho was taken, to the hospital, suffering from concussion. His condition is not serious.—Post.

Mr. J. A. Eden, of the Patea railway staff, who is to be transferred to Waitara, was farewelled on Monday last by th': staff, the Rifle Club, and a number of friends. He was presented by the staff with a gold albert and pendant, suitably inscribed, uid received from the Rifle Club a luiiwlsoine dressing case, his services lieiny highly eulogised.

Methodists in New Zealand will learn with 1 egret of the death, at his residence, tipper Hawthorn, Melbourne, on June 0, of the Rev. Henry Bath, who was one of this ablest ministers of the Methodist Church. The reverend gentle-.-••an, who was 77 years of age, entered the ministry in 1559, and was super-anmiatc-d in 100 G.

A Gisborne telegram says that last week it was reported that Driver William Wallace, of the Army Service Corps, had been killed in action on May 31. His wife received messages! of condolence Irom Hie King, Queen, Sir lan Hamilton, the Premier, and others. Now the base records nmiounce that a mistake has been made, the man reported killed being William Wallace, of Thames.

A very old resident of the Stratford district, in the person of Mrs. M. Bonner, passed away at her home, Skinner Road on Monday at the age of 70 years, reports the Post. Mrs. Bonner had been in failing; health for the last six months, and her end was not unexpected. Mrs. Bonner was bora in Westmorland, England, and at the age of 10 years came to New Zealand in the Bhip Bombay. After 10 years' residence in the Bombay settlement, Auckland, she came to Taranaki and took up,farming on the Skinner Road. Mr. Ralph Bonner died. 15 years ago. Mrs. Bonner leaves a family of five girls and three boys.