PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

I Lieutenant L. W, Mculi, son of Mr •laeol Mculi, of Manaia, is reported killed in action. Captain J. Boon, of the Trentliam trailing stall. ha» been on a visit to New Plymouth and returns this morning. Among the passengers, for Wellington by this morning's mail train will be Lieut. Colonel Young and Captain J. W. Boon.

Sapper James Rcid, of Stratford, who was previously reported wounded in action, is now reported to have been wounded accidentally.

Mr. R, J. AA'rigbion, manager pf the Aew Zealand Picture Supplies, has been spending the week-end visiting various parts of Taranaki. '

W. Scott, son of R, Scott, Birch Hill Estate, Waitara, who left New Zealand with the Main Body and was invalided aoine from Ciallipoli has been promoted to,sergeant in the 17th, Reinforcements. Messrs. Stanley Smith, F. J. Hill, ana W. Short leave by the mail train for Wellington this morning They go on Borough Council busine», and will bo away for several dnya. In yesterdays casualty 'list, among the names of those roported wounded is that of Captain Hardman Alhvood Qo«d (Medical Corps), of North Auckland. Dr. Good formerly practised in Manaia, The .larne of Lance-Corporal Arthur 0. Langlands (New Zealand Siße Brigade), of Rania Road, Auroa, is amongst those who appeared in Sunday's list of wounded.

The Rev. a. S. Bryan-Brown, of Christ's College, Christohurch, has Volunteered for service as chaplain with the New Zealand Forces He has 'been on the .staff of the college for over two years. ,', ■

Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., has been advised by cablegram that his son, Lieut. Cioorge McLean Wilford, has been wounded, and is now in the New Zealand Central Hospital, No. 1, at Broekenhurst.

Private T. 0. Jenkins (next-of-kin, W. I'. Jenkins, Waitara), who enlisted wit* the Australian Forces, ia reported iui»sing. Privates J. Jee-scr and Hugh Elliott, both of Hawera, who also went to the front with the Australian troops, have been wounded in the recent fighting.

A largo number of applications were received for the first assistants-hip .Qf the Wanganui Technical College, and Mr. James Metson, assistant at, the 'Thames High School, was selected for the position". Sixteen of tho applicants had an M.A. degree and eleven B.A.

A Wellington message announces t!i» death yesterday, after a long illness, ot Mr. A. Stuart Monteath.' barrister arid solicitor, and president of the Moderate League. He was at one time manager of the National Bank in Reefton and afterward* was member of Pai'Hameiit fcr lnangahua and Wellington. The late Mr. Montcath \vas 05 years of age.

A telegram received in Hawera late on Sunday night states that Private Herbert Hall, second son of Mr. Chas. Hall, of Hawera, has been wounded and admitted to hospital. He was at one time in tho employ of, Mr. Richards, of ElHum. fti'd left New Zealand with the 10th Reinforcement's-.'

Captain Guthrie, of Fejlding, is an. oilier New Zealand medicnl practitioner who has been killed at the front. He was killed by a shell which struck the shelter that lie was in. He was not with the. Field Ambulance,'but had gone to take the place of a Captain Keid, who was with one of the rifle battalions as regimental surgeon, but Was suffe.*ing from scarlet fevcr'at the time.

A very old resident of Now Zealanfl, who landed in this country in 1«45, passed away at Hereklno lately, in the person of Mr. Christopher IP. Gardiner, a native cf Connecticut, UjS.A. The hto Mr. Gardiner had many exciting experiences in the north in the olden day* when the Maoris were on the warpath. ■He was for some time manager of the sawmill at the Newmarket workshops, and was engaged in the milling trade most of his life.

Sergeant-Instructor J. Farrell, Kew Zealand Temporary Staff, sub-area ser-geant-major No, 21) Area, New Plymouth, is tranferral to Tamnaruniii, aa from August 28, lftlfl, as sub-area sergeantmajor No. 32 Area. Sergeant-Major N. G. Oman, late New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is appointed sergeant-in-slructoi on the New Zealand Temporary Staff, ris from August 18, 1918, and is. posted to Group No. S, as sub-area Ear-geant-major, No. 2!) Area, vica SergeantInstructor J. Farrell.

Captain Alastair Sinclair Thomson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who has fallen in action, was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sinclair* Thomson, of Geraldine, and a nephew of Sty St. Claii Thomson, MjD. He was educated at the famous Scottish Public School at Loretto, and when the war broke out was sheep-farming in New Zealand. He was 24 years of age. His eldest brother of the Indian Cavalry, was killed in actfbn in Mesopotamia in March, 1915. Ri» second brother is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Lieut. T. C. Higginson, reported killed in France, waf the youngest* son of tho late Mr. 11. P. Higginson, C.K., chicl engineer to the Wellington-Manawatu Rail" way Company during the construction of the Wellington-Longburn line. Lieutenant Higginson went to England last year to offer his services, and was immediately given a second lieutenancy in the 4th Battalion of tha Grenadier Guards and after a period of training in Kngland was sent to the front, and some mouths latei was promoted to a first) lieutenancy. For some time he lived at Makahu and Strathmore. Lieutenant Higginson was first cousin to Lieutenant A. de B. Brandon, of Wellington, who sicceeded ir bringing down tfle first Ger« man Zeppelin in British territory.

The late Mr. W. J. Russell, who passed away at his residence, South Koad, on Sunday, was born at Otahuhu in 1854. He was the second son of Sergeant Russell, who was killed in the fight at Te-Ngutu-o-te-Manu in 1807. Early in life lie and his brother, tho iatc J. J. Russell, was a prime mover in the formation of the St. Aubyn town district, and was a member of the first Town Board. In 1877 he married Miss K. Wills; of Tupaka, and his widow survives him, together with the following enildren: Mrs. W. Bickers (Marlon), Mr*. W. Mclndoo (Palnierstcn North), Mrs. F Tozer (New Plymouth), Mrs. Ji. Love-ridge (Midhirst), Misses Keitlia and Doris (New Plymouth), Messrs C.V.R., W.L., Herbert H. and Claude T. (New Plymouth), and Thomas, who left \Wth the Main Body. There are also eigbt grandchildren. - " - -■■''