PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. ?. Wheatley, accountant in tha Borough Council'- offices, is at present on a fortnight's sick leave. A cable from Bucharest ronrh the death of M. Filipcseu, one of Ronmania's leading statesmen, and formerly Minister of War. A G'azette notice announces that Wil. liam Jesse Reeve has been appointed Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Mairiages for the Stratford district, as froa October 9. Dr. A. Dillon Carbery, writing iron the Headquarters of the New Zcalard British Expeditionary Force, Franc*. says that he is in e.vcellent health, and wishes to be remembered to Stratford friends.—Post. Mr. W. IT. Collins, one of Avhburton's oldest residents and hus'iicM men, died at his residence on Saturday afternoi.n, after a very brief illness. Mr. Collins had been in business in Ashburton for over :l.j years, and had li>d the offiea of borough councillor and mayor. Mr. J. H. Lyon, of Matiere, former',? chairman of the Ohura County Council, who has been in camp for some time, ha* been medically rejected on account.of deafness, caused by a recent attack of measles,' and is now undergoing treat' ment at the Hamilton hospital. At the meeting of the TaransSl Jockey Club's District Committer latt A evening, reference was made to that sport had sustained by the «HPP of the late Mr. 1. A. Turton, andV motion of sympathy with his relative* was carried by all members standing. Mrs. Jas. Paul received al etter from Archdeacon Evans yesterday, statin;; that Lieut. Sidney Paul went from France to England in the hospital s'i'p Muhono, and is now enjoying a muchneeded rest at Broekenhurst Hospital. While in France, Lieut. Paul was suffering from an abscess on the face, and it had to be lanced.