PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. A. H. Colvile left yesterday en route to Hobart,

A very well-known citizen of Wei lington, Mr. VT.. F. Shortt, died on Sun. day.

Captain Prank Hartncll left for Auckland yesterday, his father being seriously ill there. A London cable reporta the death of Admiral Sir Wm. Kennedy, who was Captain Halsey's guest on his cruise in the New Zealand in 1013. Mrs. A. L, McDiarmid received a caMe on Sunday that Captain McDiarmid (14th Reinforcement*), was leaving for France.

At the meeting of the Central Schom Committee last evening, a motion of sympathy with the relative of the late Lanec-Corporal F. J. Partridge, who was a member of the school ttaff, Was passed, the members standing. The funeral of the late 3lr. John A. Turton took place at Hawera yesterday afternoon, and was" nttended by many hundreds of mourners, including representative* of public bodiea from til parts of Taranaki. There was a large number of floral tributes and the esteem held throughout the district for' the deceased gentleman was most manii fest. '

The death occurred at Talhape on Saturday of Mr. Alfred Barns, brother of Mrs. H. J. C. Coutts and Mr«. W. D. Powdrel, of Hawera, as the result of heart failure following on an attack of influenza and pneumonia. At the time of his death lie was farming in that district, He had been ill only a week. :Mr. Barns was at one time manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Hunterville. After leaving that service he joined Abraham and Williams, Ltd., and was managing for that firm at Tailiape. He was, unmarried.

By the. death of Mr. William MeNiven (says the Wanganui Chronicle) the community loses another of its oldest and most highly esteemed citizens, a veteran and a pioneer in the fullest sense of the term. The deceased gentleman, who had attained the ripe age of 8« years, was a veteran soldier of the Empire. He enlisted at the age of 18 and for over 12 years served with the Imperial Army as a, member of the 37th Foot, 71st Regiment. His record of service is a long and honorable one. For eighteen months he was -with the colors at Corfu, for twenty .months he sustained the hardships and faMcVthe perils of the Crimean campnign, fof sixteen months he wns with his regiment at Malta, followed by a spell of two years and five months in Knst India, and finally a year and seven months in New Zealand.) He was the proud possessor of , the Crimean medal and the New Zealand War,medal. At the conclusion of tho Maori wa<\ Mr. MeNiven Settled in Wanganui, where he had resided ever since. The deceased gentleman leaves n grown-up family of four sorfg and one daughter, viz., Mr. Wm. Mciflvcn (Hawera), Mr. Geo. MeNiven (Western Australia), and Messrs H. G. MeNiven and Martin McXiven, and Mrs. 8. Garner, of Wanganui; also throe itep-sVaa, 20 grandchildren and 11 great-grpdchild,** roii,