PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. X. K. MaoDiarmid, manager ot the Bank of New South Wales, Ne\r Plymouth, is indisposed. Corporal W. Hogg, who was for. many years one of Messrs. Borthwiek'a; stock buyers, is on final leave. Mr. Andrew Smith, of the Criterion. .Motor fiarage, leaves on Saturday to enter the non-commissioned officers'' camp. : Staff-lieutenant L. G. Goss, who !*' engaged in instruction work at the training camps, is at present la-New, Plymouth on sick leave. Second-Lieutenant J). A. Harle, of the 20th reinforcements, is spending some of his final leave in New Plymouth.

At a meeting of the general commit* tee of the Kgmont Racing Club on Tuesday evening, Mr. Vernon Benjamin Stratton, of Hastings, was appointed secretary of the club in succession to the late' Mr. J. A. Turton. Mr. Stratton has been assistant-secretary of the Rawke's Bay Jockey Club for four years; Sergeant-Major G. J. Hawkins, of th« Wellington Infantr-' Battalion, who. is returning to New Zealand for a coinmis* sion, is a well-known Taranaki representative Rugby player. He was ona of the best forwards in the team which won the Eanfurly Shield from Auckland three years ago.

The Hon. Dr. R. McNab, who is Act* Itig-Postmaster-General, will arrivo in, New 'Plymouth by the mail train on Saturday evening. , Mr. H. Okc.y, M.P., lias written to the Minister, asking him to meet a deputation at 5.30 from thfl Chamber of Commerce in connection with the Taliora-Tatu telephone connection. At a meeting of the Taranaki Presbytery, held at Hawora yesterday, the call from the Hawera congregation to the Rev. H. B. Gray, North "Kast Valley, Dunodin, was sustained. Th? call was signed by 212 out of a membership of 245. flic Moderator (Rev Mr. Mclvor), Messrs H. Halliwcll, J. Hopkirk, and !*■ A. Bone, were appointed to appear before the Dunedin Presbytery in support of the call.

The following letter, written by flii matron of Xo. 0 fienera) llospital. Franco, 'h.as been received by Mr J. 1!. 'Hill, of New Plymouth;—"l am writing to tell you that your son is u t thi'? hospital, and that be is B«riously' wounded. His condition is causing us anxiety, but I hope by the time yon receive this he will be out of the wood. Meantime we will do nil we can fo: him, and he will be lovingly and skil fully nursed, and -when fit he will go to Kngfond." Since t'lie above letter wis written Mr. Hill has received a cablegram from his son to the effect that he liad had a leg amputated below the knee, but was progressing rapidly. Mrs. _ Dion Boucicault, whose deatTi has just been reported, was an actress who had long retired from active professional life. She was. born in 1833 and was the daughter of Mr. Thomai Robertson, art publisher, of Edinburgh. She was educated for the musical profession, and made her debut on the stage at the early age of ten years, playing in "The Spoiled Child" at the Theatre Boyal, Aber deen. It Mas while playing in Kean's famous series of Shakespearian revival* that she met Dion Boucicault, whom she subsequently married. It was to see Boucicault and Miss Kobertson playing in the latter pieec that tire late ■Queen Victoria went thrice in a fortnight, and commissioned' the artist, Corhould, to paint their picture as they appeared in the piece. Xows has been received bv '.able of ttis sudden death at sea of Mr. Henry A. Chapman, lately associate to hi» father, Mr. Justice Chapman, and for >omc timo associate to the Chief Justice. Mr. Chapman left for England bj the s.s. Coriiithie in September, his desire being to obtain work in connection with the war. He 'llreadv had the assurance that work was awaiting him. He was accompanied by his sister. For a few wjeks before leaving, Mr. Chapman was indisposed, but not seriously so. He continued to uttend to his duties without interruption up to the date of his departure. In speaking of his death at Wellington on Tuesday, the Chief Justice said he was a young man of a very sunny disposition, for whom he had a great attachment, r. Justice Chapman's second son (the late Dr. Chapman) lost his life while serving the Kmpire in France