PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Nurse Sandford, who has been a visitor to New Plymouth for several weeks, returns to Christchurch. by the mail this morning.

Lieutenant Thomas Cecil Higginson, of the Grenadier Guards, a Ne>w Zealnnder, has beer killed in action.—London cable.

In Saturday's roll of honor list ap* pears: "Missing, believed to be wounded, Lieut. J. K. Cuthill." This is "Jock" Cuthill, the famous Otago 'Varsity threequarter back, and one of the finest Rugby players New Zealand has produced. He, left with the Thirds.

Mr. B. Martin (Tahora) arrived in Xeiv Plymouth on Saturday on a visit to his relatives, before going into camp with tiie reinforcements for the Tunnelling Corps.

Mr. W. Kerr, S.M. at Wanganui, is under instructions from the Justice Deportment to take charge of the Wairarapa district during the absence of 'Mr. Reid, S.M., and will take up his residence at Master-ton. Mr. Kerr leave? Wanganui in about a fortnight's time. The death occurred yesterday at his residence, Outfield Road, of Mr. William ilolm Bu-ssell, a well-known resident or Xcw Plymouth. Deceased, who had been ailing for several years, was born in Auckland, and was engaged in a carrier's business here. His father was killed in the fight at Te-Xgutu-o-te.-. Mann.

Mrs. Henderson, of Inglewood, hag received the sad news that her son, Private Sclwyn Henderson, has been killed in action in France. This is the second one of the Henderson family who has laid down his life for the cause. Widespread sympathy is felt for Mrs. 'Henderson, whose sorrow may nevertheless be relieved by pride in the achievements of her family.

References to the death in action ot Captain Alan Maedougall, the Xew Zealand Rhodes scholar of 1!*)9, are made in a letter just received from England by Mrs. Mackenzie, wife ot Professor Mackenzie, of Victoria College. They show that he was killed instantly by a bomb from a trench morUr on the night of August 3. His body was recovered and ouried with full military honors in the Delville Wood. The death has occurred of Mr. John MeEhvaii), n nonagenarian, who hod resided in the Auckland district for-3-1 years. Mr. McElwain passed away suddenly it liis residence, in Mount Eden, at the age of 05 years. After his arrival in New Zealand from Ireland, Mr. MeKhvtin took up farming, and was a successful potato-grower. He subsequently settled at Waitakere, where lie and his sons took up sheep-farming. As a member of the Waitakcre Road Hoard, tho deceased did useful work. Until recently Mr. McElwain lived at Waitakcre.

Friend; in New Zealand have 'leard with regret of the deatli of Mr. William Montgomery, son of the late Captain Henry Montgomery, of Wanganui, which took place in Victoria, British Columbia, in July of this year. An Australian by birth, Mr. Wiiliam Montgomery spent the best years of his life in New Zealand. In his youth he was fond of athletics, being a boating man and captain of the Waugamii football team. He was a personal friend of the late John Bai« lance and Richard Scddon.

In Saturday's casualty list appears the name of Captain L S. Jennings, killed in action, lie had many friends in Tavannki, where he will be best remembered as a fine tennis player. Captain Jennings was en tile staff of the: Waitaki High School when he joined the Main Expeditionary Force, and was a most popular teacher. He .vas married shortly before In: went away to the front to Miss Cross, who was a teacher at the Xew Plymouth High School, and her bereavement is all the more acute owing to the fact that she has recently lost her mother, and her father is at present seriously ill. Captain Jennings is the second of the Waitaki High School tcashers to fall in the great cause.