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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. G. P. Armstrong, late of Optt. nake, has purchased the Ivanhoe News, Victoria (Australia). , Mr. W. F. Inder, solicitor, of Gore, aged 47, died of pneumonia on Saturday morning, after a shoit illness. Captain Edwin, who has been in command of the s.s. Wahine in the Medlter* ranenn -Sea, is returning to the 'Dominion by the Arawa. A Sydney cable states that Lieut. A. Bell, son of Mr. R. A. Bell, who is well known in New Zealand shipping circles, was killed in France. The Wanganui College Board trustees last night appointed Professor Patrick Marshall, Dtmedin, headmaster of tho College.-—Press Message. Fire-Inspector Hugo arrived in town on Monday evening, and yesterday inspected the Fitzroy and New Plymouth Fire Brigades. The Borough Council last night granted Inspector B. Tippins ono month's leave of absence. Mr. H. Stocker was a passenger by the Earawa last evening en route to Rotorua, where lie will spend ft lew. days' holiday. , A London cable announces the death of the Rev. Canon Edward Moore, the Duntt scholar. The death is reported at Feathereton military camp yesterday, of Trooper Percy Ooad. third son of Mr and Mrs. Charles Coad, of Te Roti. At the musical examination he'd at Inglewood on September 4, by Mr. Myerseough, Miss Eileen Leieh was successful in passing the practical of.the A.T.C.L., and Miss Marguerite Leech tho t higher local Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Glasgow, ot the Royal Sussex Regiment, a member of a well-known Xelson family, who was twice wounded and three times men-' tioneil in dispatches, lias been awarded the D.S.O. Lieutenant-Colonel Glasgow is an old boy of Nelson College.' At Otakeho last week the residents assembled there to bid farewell to Miss J. Maekay, who has been postmistress for IS months, and also Privates Parker and Dixon, up on final leave. Miss Mackay received a lady's companion, and the departing soldiers a safety razor and wristlet watch each Miss Matthews succeeds Miss Maekay Captain 0. :P. Johnson, who was killed in action recently, was the son oi Mr. J. C. .Tohnsmi, who contested the Bay c; Islands seat oil one occasion. The deceased held the rank of lieutenant win- 1 he left Xew Zealand for th<; front. o-. was engaged at Gallipoli, >v'nen- * « wounded. A brother. Ser; ■>«-.*» Johnson, was also wound'-i " k ■. i.