PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death occurred at Greytown an Sunday of Mr. George Yule, at the advanced age of seventy yearn. Mr. F. J, Hill, who has been on a visit to Christehurch for the past fortnight, returned to Xew byt'ie mail. train, last night. Dr. Ronald Orbell, who has 'been awarded the Military Cross, was in practice at Oamaru before proceeding to the front. Among the men who returned by the Talnnc on Tuesday from Samoa was Private Harold James Ellerby, of Hawera. Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrington, of Ma. tapn, left Hawera on Tuesday, with their two daughters, for a trip "to the Old Country. Mrs, Hanan, wife of the Hon. J. A. Eanan, Minister of Education, is spending a holiday at Hawera, and is tho guest of Mrs. Strack, of the District High School. Sergeant W. P. Okey has besn appointed the returned soldiers' reprcsenI tative on the New Plymouth Patriotis ~ Committee, in place of Captain F. L. I Ikitnell, who is now in camp. Mr. M. Hawkins, gaoler at Wellington, and late of New Plymouth, relinquishes his duties in that position as from Tuesday, in order to tako the office of Assistant Inspector of Prisons, a capacity in which he has acted for some time. Corporal E. B. Ellerm, a recently returned soldier, is now an inmate of the' Xew Plymouth Hospital, having und*rjgone a serious operation. Corporal Ellerm is progressing as well as can be expected, Mr. Charles Hillman died at the public hosiptal, Gisborne, on Thursday, aged 101 years and six months. Until quite recently Mr. Hilman had enjoyed fairly good health, having been admitted to the hospital only a few days prior to his death. Owing to the illness of Mr. R, Crockett, inspector of stock at Opunake, Mr. J, E. Tomlinson, stock inspector at El- ; thaiu, has been instructed to go to Opunake until a permanent officer ha 3 been appointed. .' Mr. Ernest Myers Mitchell, one of t%* most brilliant members of the New' South Wales Bar, has enlisted. He has! gone into camp as a private. Mr, Mitchell, who was 41. years of age last March, has been lfi years a member of: the Xew South Wales Bar, to which lie was admitted in October, 1900. Mr. E. Morrissey, who for :ome years was associated with Messrs. Nolan and. Tonka, and latterly with the New Zea«: land Loan and Mercantile Agency C 0.,. Hawera, has accepted She position of auctioneer with the well-known Manawatu. firm of Abraham, and Williams, Ltd. \ i Mr. W. B. Grant, of New Plymouth/ 'and formerly of Hawera, has just re-' ceivod advice that his brother, H, 0.; Grant, was killed in action on October 21.. Mr. Grant was for many years farming at the Lakes, near Hawera, He was also prominent in football circles. About ten years ago ha: left for Klondyke. and from there enlisted in the fl7th Canadian Pioneer* He was serving with them in France at the time of his death, Mr. Charles Bolton, who was, eon'* nected with the Public Service in We'> lington for many yete, died on Sunday, at the age of Gi. The deceased, who waa a native of England, joined the Land nui Income-Ta.v Department in 1878, and remained .with it until 1892. Four years later he became a member of the staff of the Government Insurance Department, and with the exception of a year' 3 break (1897-98) he was in the Servic-J until he retired on wrperannuation two rears ago last June, owing to ill-health. He has left a widow and family. Two of his sons went to the front. One is .still there, and the other is a prisoner of war.

A cablegram was received in Stratford on Tuesday stating that Ciptiin F. N. S. Hitchcock, of the N»w Z.wVmd Medical Corps, was killed in action, in France? on 21st October. Captain Hitchcock, who left New Zealand in October, WIS, saw active service at G<iHipoii, where he received special mtntiou i'or bravery at the Field Dressing Station, and was promoted second in command of one of the Base hospitals in Egypt, subsequently going to the front in France. The deceased officer was a young man o! much promise, and especially well-known in the Whangamomomv district as Hied;. cal practitioner, where he endeared him'' self to all by his close attention to hi* patients. Ke also took a keen interest In all social functions connected with the district. Captain Hitchcock, was a native of London, leaving ■-there •to go to Whangamomona. He leaves awidow and two young children to mourn their loss, says the Post.