PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. ,T. Cullen, Commissioner of Polic#, will retire on superannuation in Septenn ber next.

Messrs F. Pirani and E. F. Hemingwayhave been returned as representatives of the Central and West wards'respectively on the Wanganui. Education Board.

The health of Lieut-Colonel J. (7. Hughes, who recently returned from England, continues to improve steadily. He leaves for Rotorua shortly to undergo a course of treatment, which he hopes will i-estore him to complete health.

In a tribute to Lord Kitchener,. the Ocan of Rnrimm (Dr. Hensley Henson) compared him witii Wellington, and said both were characteristically English heroes, men of severe and reticent habits, devoted to duty, and indifferent to the popular arts which demagogues employ. ed.

Captain C. W. B. Littlejohn, Victorian Pinnies scholar for lfiCO, who holds degrees in art, 'cienee, medicine, and surgery, and a diploma in anthropology of the Oxford diversity, has passed the final examination for,the Vcllownliin of the Royal College nf fiurgeons. He has been on active service for two years .with the. li.A.M.C, and ban I>;l'U wounded twice.

.Mr. Walter F. Frear, ex-Governor of .Hawaii, who is making a holiday trip to Australia, arrive.l a! Sydney last week. Hi. will vinit Victoria, South Australia, ami Tasmania, and will take in New Zealand 0:1 his return voyage. Mr. Frc.ir. who is accompanied by his wife mid daughter, is nrcsfde-nt of the "Hands Around tht' L'aclfie" movcniciK. The Hon. J. T. Pan. was re-elected chairman, av.d Mr. 1.. 0 H. Trip]) vicechairman, at a ncetiiu of the Advisory Board of the Federated Mew Zealand War Relief Societies he'd a 1: Wellington on Thursday. Mr. H. W; Kirkwood has hecn apnointcd delegate foi Taranaki in place of Mr. J. A. Wilson. All other members of the board were re-elected. The Taranaki friends of Mr Welter Matthews will he glad to know that he ha- been appointed sergeant-major of V, Company llltl* Kc;; intent; J. C. Nicholson has been made a sergeant in B Company; A. din-stall a sergeant in the Specialist Company; and E Armstrong.. W. Rogers (of Stratford 1 tad, 'Huge Fraser sergeants in H. Company. Taranaki is therefore .veil represented, in the ll!tli Kcinforcem;nti.

A. cable from London records the death in Mesopotamia of Sit Victor Alexander Ikulcu Horsier, the eminent surgeon. He was horn in 18.">7, and had bee'n suri goon to the National Hospital for Paralysis and F.piiepsy since 188(1, and Emeritus professor of clinical surgery and consulting surgeon at the University Collens Hospital since 1900. As early as liW-l he made important discoveries, for which lie received the Cameron and tba Fothcrgil gold medals.

Mr. Herbert B. Bridge, of Wellington, who was iif fears of age on Monday last, is probably one of the oldest living residents of New Zealand who was born at Waiapn (Hay of Islands). He is the son of the late' Colonel Cyprian Bridge, of the .iStli Regiment, who was at that time Resident Magistrate in the Bay of Islands, and who fought through the Heke war. That gallant officer took part in nine engagements, and led one of the forlorn hopes against the well fortified Pliaie\sai pa, being three times mentioned in despatches. The family of Mr. H. B. Bridge is (says the Dominion) admirably sustaining' its military traditions. Two of his sons arc at present fighting in France, another is in camp ,\t Feathcrston, and still another is employed in the Base Records Office at Trentham. These are in addition to, another son, who was so seriously injured in the light at Rhododendron Hill in Gallipoli that he died when en routo to Egypt

News has been received of the death at the front of Bomb. 0. (.!. W. Priest, * Iciest, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Priest, of Palmerston North. The deceased soldier, who was twenty years of ige, was born in Akaroa Canterbury, and coming to the North Island with his parents in his early boyhood, received his education at the Inglevood school, and later at Stratford High School, and in his scholastic career gave indications of a promising future. On his parents moving to Palmerston, Bomb. Priest joined the staff of Messrs. Abraham and Williams. He joined the artillery of the. Main Body as a gunner, and went through the preliminary training course at Awapuni. He served with his battery, in the Gallipoli campaign where he was wounded but recovered and went to France when the Anzacs were transferred there some months ago. The last letter received by his parents stated that he, was well, and had just received his leave, and was going across to England for a short holiday, so that Bomb. Priest must have just returned.to duty when he received his death wound.