PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

, It is stated that a syndicate is endeuvoring to a concert tour of Australia anil New Zealand for Miss Kosina Uuckman. Rev. T. If. Roseveare was in New Plymouth yesterday, ami lie returns to Cambridge this morning, accompanied by Mrs. Roseveare. Advice has been received that Private Warry Rogers, son of Mrs. S. Rogers, of Tarurutangi, lias been wounded for the second time. Miss J. Knapp, of the staff of the Girls' College, Wanganui, has been appointed lady principal of the Gisborne High School. A Sydney cablegram state.? that Captain Heritage, who has been killed in action, was the Sydney traffic inspector for the Union Company. A cable announces that E, Rj Leary, York and Lancaster Regiment, a New Zealander, was killed in France on August .23. Mr. Rumbold Barnet succeeds Mr. E. Grant Huff as Minister Plenipotentiary for Switzerland.—Cable mesauge. The death of two well-known Wellington resident? is reported—Mr. Charles Palliser, prominont in the build-' ; n« trade, and Mr. William Tonks, one of the fathers of the Empire City. Tiie Taranaki Education Board yesterday granted Miss Giddy, Bird road school, one month's leave of absence on account of sickness, and also accepted the resignation of Mr. H. L. Hotuan, Hur'vorth. ■ In the list of invalided soldiers returning by the Ara.wa., due at Auckland on September 2, is the name of Arthur E. Giles, -whose next-of-kin is W. Giles, Havera. Private W. L. Pellew, who left here with the Sth Reinforcements has recovered from his illness, and has now been appointed a member of the New Xeilnml Hospital staff, at present -in England. A singular coincidence is reported in the death of Mrs. Messenger at New Plymouth and Mr. Dugald M'Kellar at Wellington on Friday last. Both Mrs. Messenger, who was formerly a Miss Mace, and Mr. M'Kellar were fellow passenger? in the barque St. Michael, which arrived at New Plymouth from Madeira on December 2, 185'2.

The casualty list issued qn contains the names of the following Taranaki men: Private Thomas M, Sullivan (wounded), next-of-kin Mr. T. D. Sullivan, Stratford; Private Alexander Wright (wounded), next-of-kin Mr, T. Wright, Lepperton; Sergeant Francis J. 'Partridge (dangerously ill from wounds), next-of-kin Mr. T. Partridge, Stratford. XcWf, lias been received in Christchureh of the death, in England, of a prominent old Canterbury resident,, Mr. H. W. Moore, who returned about four years ago. Mr. Moore was twice married, his lirst wife being Miss Hester Lysaght, daughter of Sir Francis Lysaght, Hawera, by whom lie had one son, Mr. Frank Moore (New Plymouth), who recently went into camp with the Expeditionary Forces. Word was received by Mrs. F. Simpson, Cover Street, on Tuesday afternoon that ■her son, Corporal Neville Wynn Simpson, \v)1o was serving with the Australian Forces in France, had died of wounds on duly 20. Corporal Simpson- entered the Bank of New South Wales after leaving the Napier High School, being j stationed at Napier, Dannevirke, New Plymouth, and was then transferred to Australia. He enlisted in Sydney early in 1815,, and was several months on Gallipoli before being- invalided to England, sick, lie had been in France since March 'last, and met his twin brother, "Ben" (Xew Zealand Ritle Brigade, since wounded), during a rest from the trenches at tile end of June. While in New Plymouth, Corporal Simpson was a member of the United Service Cricket Club and New Plymouth Golf Club.