PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Clias. Ahicr and Miss Ahicr have returned to New Plymouth from a holiday trip spent in Auckland. Word lias been received by friends that Private Dave Walker, of Manaia, who enlisted from Wanganui with the 17th Reinforcements, has been wounded in the "Great Push" in France.

Mr. W. Harris, of Waihi, was an interested visitor lit the berthing of the .first ocean liner at New Plymouth on Wednesday, he having, as a member of tlie first New Zealand contingent, journeyed to 'South Africa in the same vessel. Tho Czarina of Russia, before her marriage to Czar Nicholas 11., was Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, a grand-duchy of Germany. This accounts for her pro-Germanism, that caused the Russian revolution.

Captain Bone, marine superintended of the New Zealand Shipping Compau* who has been on a visit to New Plymouth during the past two or three days, leaves by the mail train this morning.

Constable Boulton, of Fitzroy, who has recently been promoted to the rank of sergeant, has received notice of transfer to Duiiedin. He will leave to take up his new position in about a week, and will be succeeded at Fitzroy by Constable Hadler, of Normanby. At a meeting at Hawera. on Thursday it was decided to give the Rev. T. 0. Hammond a fitting send-off, at which he is to be presented with a purse of sov-e-eigns and an address. The rev. gentleman has for decades been working amongst t,'he Taranaki Maoris, and is about to leave for North Auckland. Mr. D. H. Butcher, Collector of Customs at Patea, has received notice of transfer to Dunedin. He will leave for his new sphere of work at the end of the present month. After his departure the Customs work at the port, at any rate during the war, will be carried out by an officer from Wanganui, who will visit Patea. on Thursdays and Fridays (says the Press). The death is reported, at Moreweather, Newcastle, N.S.W., of Mr. ■Percy Dix, theatrical manager. For some years past Mr. Dix had conducted a permanent vaudeville show at Mereweather. Mr, Dix was a resident of Wellington for some years, when he held a lease of the defunct Theatre Royal. He inaugurated a circuit in New Zealand, and aictually competed against the firm of John Fuller and Sons, the result being the attainment of a 'high standard of performance. Mr. Dix, who was about fifty years of ago, was a genial and popular man, who had many friends in this country.