PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that !yOrd French's sister, Mrs Harley, matron of u Scottish hospital, has been severely wounded at Monastir. A London cable states ihr.t Lioit. G. W. C'nllcndei (of the Worcestershire Resiirient), son of the general manager of the Bank of New Zetland, has been tailed. A London cable states that the Duchess of Connaught was attached with influenza on February 13, and measles developed, accompanied by pneumonia. Her condition is disquieting. Miss Leslie, a representative of the Church Missionary Society, is visiting New Plymouth. Miss Leslie was employed for many years as a missionary in China, and was engaged yesterday in lecturing to Sunday School children concerning the work. Mr Walter Wright, who has heen during the last five years inspector of dairy produce in Britain for the New Zealand Government, and a member of the stall' of the High Commissioner's office, is shortly returning to New Zealand. While in London Mrs Wright's health has not been good, and this is the chief reason for Mr Wright's request for a transfer. Mr Wright was formerly government grader at Patea. A number or" people gathered at the Elthain railway station on Friday even-' ing on the occasion of the homecoming of Private J. Stevens, win. was seriously wounded while serving in France, and returned to New Zealand by the Manama, His appearance on the platform ivas greeted with three hearty cheers, and among those who pressed forward to welcome him were Messrs C. A. Wilkinson, MJP., T. B. Crump, and L. B. t!rinistoi.e, members of the Patriotic Committee, and the railway staff. Colonel J. E. Hume, officer commanding the Wellington Military District, accompanied by Captain W. E. S. Furby, assistant adjutant-general, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday. They paid an informal visit to the Wahvakaiho camp, where the Xlth (Taranaki) Regiment is in training, yesterday, and will inspect the men to-day. Captain Furby, it will be remembered, was an officer in th'o Xlth Regiment before proceeding to the front with the Wellington Infantry Regiment of the Main Body. Colonel Hume is accompanied by Mrs Hume. Lance-Corporal A. Thompson, of Okato, returned by the Marama, which arrived in Auckland last week. LanceCorporal Thompson is an Anzac, having enlisted in the Main Body and been right through the Gallipoli campaign. He was wounded in the thigh at Fleurs on September 15 last, and since then had been in the Brockenhurst hospital. Though he is at present looking well, ho is still under hospital'treatment for his thigh, and expects to have to undergo an operation in the New (Plymouth hospital shortly. The late William Salmond, Emeritus 'Professor in .Mental and Moral Philosophy, Otago University, was born in Edinburgh in 1535, and was educated at the High School and University. He graduated B.A. in 1553, bcci.me Doctor of Divinity of Glasgow University three ycais later. He. studied theology in Scotland and Germany foi four years, and was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of North Shields, in the ; North of England, where he remained for seventeen years. He arrived at Port Chalmers early in 1876 by the ship Corona. Tor ten years he was professor of theology in the Presbyterian Church, and was appointed to the Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy in TSB6. He has published many theological pamphlets and also contributed largly to periodicals.

On Saturday, Mr F. Basham, who has been 'engineer to the Elthaiu County Council ever since its inception, tendered liis resignation, having been appointed engineer and clerk to the I'atangata County Council. The chairman and councillors, while expressing pleasure at the engineer improving his position, expressed their keen regret at his severing his connectioi. with the council, whose confidence he had always possessed. The council always recognising that he had attended to his duties faithfully, and had always safeguarded their interests, Mr Basham, in reply thanked the councillors for the generous encomiums passed on his work. Ho had had fourteen years' experience in the district, including a period when tho present Eltham County was part of the Hawera County. He would be ever ready to assist them with any advice or other matters regarding the work in the county. His. associations had always been of ;hc best with the Council and employees.