PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The ftev, If. B. Ilughes, 8.A., 8.D., }\ ls reported as returning to New -calami shortly from America, lias acChurch U Ctt " t0 th ° lnvm ' ar g i)l baptist r„? ifl ,p llln ," G ® orge Ta " lor . son of Mr. idJ or,loßtomCe ' Rtro y- h " b^

n. S?( |"SX-.r portß the death of Captain David Williams, formerly manager for the Union Company at Newcastle. Ueuteimii. Henry, son of Mr. James Henry, of Matupu, Taranaki, has died of cerebral thrombosis. He was at the front with the Australians.

Sergeant-Major J. X. Bollard, son of Mr. G. H. Bullard, New Plymouth, has been appointed a second lieutenant iu '* Company, l!»h Reinforcements.

formerly on the staff of the In,on Bank, New Plymouth, who jowed the Sixteenth (Reinforcements is Uave reSeHt iB >eW :Plyraoutb ol > Anal

Th« death is announced of Mr. Charles Purviss, who was an early arrival in ,the Marlh»rougli district, where he spent a gicat part of his life; and he <w«s for maay years a prominent and active figure in the business and civic circle* of Blenheim.

The NC.O.'a of the 15th Reinforcements who gained commission's recently, include Sergeant T. Arthur Blvth, of B company, well-known in the Ha'wera district some years ago as a prominent footbailer and a. member of the teaching »?J ? cal Distl ' ict H igh School. Mr. Blyth has been posted to the 20ths Sergeant S. Kenriek, of Hawera, and Sergeant Geo. T. Weston have also received commissions. They are posted to the 19ths. ,

Captain R. X. Morpeth, who has been wounded took part in the landing on tJiu Gallipoli Peninsula last year and was wounded. His name was included in one of the first casualty lists issued m connection with that campaign. He was invalided home, and returned to the front some months igo, having been promoted from the rank of lieutenant to that of captain. Captain Morpeth is a son of Mr. H. D. Morpeth, town clerk of Wailii, and is 24 years of age. ■Prior to his departure on active .service, he was engaged as a teller in the Bank of Xew Zealand, Thames. I-etters of sympathy have reached Mr. F. J. Gane, of Normanby, from leading men in Canada in connection with the death in action of his son, Captain Frank Gane. The Chief Inspector of Schools says that Captnin Gane "was very highly respected by nil who knew him and loved by those who (knew him bast. He lived nobly and died nobly. It will always be our ainvto keep his life before our young people, and set him as an example of a gentleman and a scholar." The chaplain of his regiment in a letter says that "he was a great favorite with the officers, for he had won their respect by the splendid qualities lie had shown in his work, and by his men he was greatly admired and loved. II? died as a true soldier and a gallant officer would like to die." The Kdmondton Morning Bulletin, in its coin urns, refers to his varied and splendid carper and says that •fh all his work he was thorough and systematic, winning the confidence and es teem of all his associates.

Profound regret was i'clt throughout Feilding 011 Saturday when it was learned that Captain T. E. Guthrie, of Feilding, had been killed in France on June 2. Advices from the front atata that Dr. Guthrie had been engaged in specially dangerous work in the front trenches, and presumably it was while attending to the grievously wounded there that he came by his death. He was the only unmarried member of the staff that went away from Awapuni with Surgeon-Major A. A. Martin and arrived in France at the beginning of April. The late Dr. Guthrie was a young man, about thirty years of age, an only son, and a native of Christchurch, wiiere his parents live. He had a brilliant University career at Edinburgh, and was regarded in the profession as a fine surgeon. In the course of a year or two he built up ail extensive practice at Feilding, where he was held in high esteem for his many lino qualities.