PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The state of health of Mrs. W. T. Jennings is causing her friends great anxiety.

The hostesses for Friday's afternoon tea, given bv the liabotu Ladies' Guild, will be Mesdumcs M. Hill, Quinn, J. Ward and Willoughby. In the evening Trooper I. Morrow will be farewelled. At the meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday a vote of condolence with the relatives Mr .Jas. Davidson, of Ifawera, was passed, the members standing.

The names of Misses Gertrude Burgess (Stratford) and Norah Bergen (Wanganui) were added to the probationers list of the New Plymouth hospital. Mr. Thomas V. Crotty, recently a member of Mr. W. Fraser's .stall' here, was successful in passing the final section of the Pharmacy Board's examination held in Wellington last month. Mr. Crotty passed first in order of merit, and goes into camp on Monday next, Private cable messages received from Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., Second Brigade Canterbury Battalion, and Lieut. Stuart Seddon, R.11.A., state that both are well. The messages have come since the German attack 011 the New Zealand trenches, and the great offensive. The Seddon brothers met in France. Lieut. Stuart Seddon had just three months in the deadly trench mortar work in the front trenches, and bad come through safely, despite having experienced considerable "strafing." Word has also been received from Mrs. Wood (nee Mi9s Ru'bi Seddon) that her husband, FleetSurgeon Wood, who is well-known to many New Zealamlera, was 011 board a vessel which took part in the Jutland battle.

Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., received from the High Commissioner, by the last English mail, a handsome sword which was presented by the residents of Buenos Aires to his son, Lieutenant H. W. Jennings, of the Royal Field Artillery, who died in February last from wounds received in September last, in the fighting at Loos. The sword, which was manufactured from the best Damascus steel, has two jewels in the handle. The late Lieutenant Jennings had been in the service of the British Bank of South America, at Buenos Aires, for three years prior to the outbreak of war. Mr. Jennings has received a letter from the head office of the bank, London, conveying a copy of a resolution in which the board of directors recorded their deep regret at the death of Lieutenant Jennings, and expressed their sympathy with his parents and relatives. Amongst the effects of his hi to son. which have been received by Mr. Jennings, are a German helmet and an iron cross, .which the deceased found in a Gorman trench at Loos just before he was wounded.