PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Right Hon. H. H .Asquith (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday on Tuesday last. • A Sydney cablegram states that among those killed in France is Private R H Todd, a former resident of New Zealand.

Among the names in yesterday morn, ing's casualty list appear tie following: Reported wounded, Trooper Hugh C. McNeill (Hawera); wounded and admitted to hospital, Trooper Richard Rawcliffe, Mongatoki.

Private Stuart Partridge, of Waver, ley, is among the invalided soldiers returning by the Toftia, which is due at Port Chalmers to-day. At the meeting of the New Plymouth' District Rifle Club last night, a motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Lieutenant G. W. Henderson was carried in silence.

Last evening members of tho Referees' Football Association met Private W. Roch, who is departing with the iSth Reinforcements, and presented him with a handsome ca9e of pipes. The Hawera Borpugh Council has arranged with Mr. Sturrock for an extension of tho term of his engagement for three years from the end of his present term, at a salary of £SOO per annum.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Skerman, of Ashwell (England) have twelve sons, every one of whom is serving with the forces, either in the Army or Nav>, eleven being in the Army, and one in the Marines. The father, who is 70 years old, helped in this year's hay hari vest.

Mr. G. A. Holder, who for health reasons went some six months since to Cambridge returned to Hawera a few days ago (say the Star). His many friends will be glad to know that he i» looking well. He is enthusiastic with regard to the management of the sanatorium. Mr. Holder says that the place was full all the time, and others waiting to get. admission. It has been decided to add accommodation for forty extra visitors It is probable that returned soldiers requiring rest cure will all bo accommodated at Cambridge, instead of being sent to. various places.

Aii old Crimean War veteran, Lieutenant John Henry Baldwin, who arrived in New Zealand in 1557, arid died recently at Meanee, Hawke' Bay, in his eighty-seventh year, was the son of the lato Captain Baldwin, Royal Artillery, and stepson of the late Brigadier-Gen-eral Sir B. Tyson, kept to the last a, vivid recollection of the stirring days of the Crimea. He was full of spirit even to the end of his adventurous career, and it wa9 his great vitality that sustained him during many month of Biekness. Just before he died he sanfi the song, "Keep the Old Flag Flying" with such vigor and enthusiasm tlrtit his friends were completely deceived as in the nearness of his end.