PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of Mr. C. E. Green, the cricketer. Lieutenant W. P. Aldridge, of Wungar nui, was a passenger to Auckland by the Rarawa last evening A London cable states that the King invested Admiral Sir John Jellieoe villi the Order of Merit.

Mr. J. Clarke, of New Plymouth, left by the Rarawa last evening for Auckland. He will us absent about ten days. Word has just been received by tho Hawera Presbyterian Church by telegram that the call to the Rev. H. B. Gray, of North East Valley, Dunedin, hag been sustained. The matter was before the Dunedin Presbytery yesterday. It is expected that Mr. Gray will take up his work about the beginning of February. Mr. C. H. Drew, late of '.Cew Plymouth, has secured his flying certificate at Home, and been given a commission in the Royal Flying Corps . He is now at the Denhnm Officers' Training Camp, undergoing infantry training, and will then proceed to Oxford to study the mechanism of aeroplanes. He expects to go to France with his corps in Februarv or March.

Mrs. Stewart, wife of Mr. A. Stewart, of Eltham, received word on Monday that her brother, Lieutenant Roy Fitzgerald, had won the Military Cross in connection with the Somrne offensive in France. Lieutenant Fitzgerald enlisted as a private in an English regiment. Mrs. Stewart has four brothers at the front, and by a strange coincidence Mr. Stewart has also four brothers at the war. Miss Fitzgerald, a sister of Mrs. Stewart, is also going on act ; ve service as a nurse.—Argus.

A recipient of the Military Medai is Corporal Douglas Harper Strachan, tho son of Mr. A. Strachan, of Waverley. Corporal Strachan is a member ot the Wellington Mounted Kifles. He went away with the Main Body, and h now serving in Egypt. The honor was conferred on him for distinguished conduct in the battle of Romam. Corporal Strachan was mentioner 1 in dispatches foi gallantry on the Gallipoli Peninsula, as also was his brother, Trooper Laurie Strachan. Of the three other sons in the family, one has volunteered for service, and a fourth has been drawn in the first ballot.

Advice has been received that Riflaman A. \V. Morey, youngest sor of Mrs. W. Morey, New 'Plymouth, has been wounded, and admitted to the Second London General Hospital, suffering from a severe gunshot wound in the left thigh. Another Eric, who left with the 3rd Battalion, 'Bine Brigade, has written to say that he :» suffering from quincy and enteric, and is in a French hospital ac Bailleau. Both lie and his brother went safely through the first three weeks of the Somme push, beginning on September 15, ir.d taey were then given three days' .'es.t A third son, AVnltei, <vho left as a sergeant in the 17-th .Reinforcements, has cabled from Sling Camp to say hj? has arrived safely, and is well.