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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 4

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Colonel the Earl of Feversham, says * London cable, lias been killed in action. He was 37 years of age. Lieut.-Colonel Young, of the Agricultural Department, arrived last night on a short visit to New Plymouth. The Rev. Shields, rector for St. Jamee, Sydney, has beer appointed Bishop of Armidale.—Cable message. At the Hawera Hospital Board'? monthly meeting on Thursday, the resignations of, Nurses M. B. Dive and MeG'ee were accepted. Lieut. W. 11. Humphrey, of Inglewood, leaves by the mail train this morning en route for Wairoa, having been appointed to the charge of that area. Mr. J. B, Boy, who has been in Wellington during the past week, returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night. The Hon, O. Samuel, M.L.C., aceoin panied by Mrs. Samuel, returned by the mail train last night from a visit )o Auckland and Wellington. In yesterday's Roll of Honor list, Rififr. man Andrew J. Robertson, of Waver' . . was among those who were icd i wounded and admitted to hospital. A London cable says that Si. Timothy Coghlan, the former Agent-General, has consented to aet as Agent-General for New South Wales in place of the lata Mr. Wise. Mr. J. H. Qnilliam and Mr. Cec:» Quilliam, who have been on a visit to Wellington and Auckland, were among the passengers by the mail train last night. Mr. A. Drew, of Palmerston North, and formerly of New Plymouth, has received advice that his son, Sergeant Sidney Drew, of the Trench Mortar Battery, N. 55. Field Artillery (9th Contingent), has been recommended for a D.C. medal. Sergeant Drew went away in the infantry of the ftth Reinforcements, and was transferred in France to the trench mortar section, A Timaj'u message states .that Sergt. Robert Simmers, of the Rifle Brigade, who is mentioned as receiving file Military Medal, is » son of Mr. (}. A. Simmers, formerly headmaster of Timaru High School. The sergeant enlisted at Damievirke, when employed in surveying work.

Sii Foster Cunlice, the distinguished military historian, was killed in the recent lighting on the Western front. He was a major in the Rifle Brigade, and had been at the front for several months. Sir Foster, who was the sixth baro;iet, in 1 IKl.'i was appointed lecturer in military history at Oxford. He wrote the official history of the Boer war, and possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of the annals of warfare. During his undergraduate days Sir Foster was a notable cricketer, and was captain of the Oxford University eleven. V Sergeant Ernest Stockcr (Otago v Mounted Rifles) is returning by the Wil- \ lochra, due at the end of this month, . to receive a commission. Sergeant k Stockei went right through tlie Gallipoli [ campaign, with the exception of a brief { fpeil wliqn he was wounded in the t shoulder, lind up to the time of leaving ■ for New Zealand had been fighting i* ■ France. Ho is a brother of Mr. H. Stockcr, of New Plymouth, who also has three other brothers at the front (two ot them lieutenants), whilst yet another brother, who saw service in South Africa, was unable to persuade the authorities to let him away.