PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Satii. • "' V Mr. R. C. Kirk, of Wellington, '"hi has been attending tlio goli touijun nient, returns on Wednesday. Mr. Robert Bell, proprietor of thlj Asliburton Guardian, has been spend* •ng a few days at the mountain, lid returns south to-morrow, Mr. W. H. Skinner, foY Crown Lands for Canterbury, ii re\ ititj ing NeW Plymouth, hi* old home. IH will be here till tlio end of IhQ Mrs. Skinner ds also in town., In response to numerous requcsti, ilrJ E. R. Clilmour has decided to be a can I didate at the forthcoming election foj three New Plymouth representatives on the Taranaki Hospital aud Charitab® Aid Board. . Mr. W. Jones, of Kcvrton Kings'?) Inglewood staff, who is leaving to tnka up a position as accountant with m Wellington firm, was, on tlio eve of hi J departure, presented by the manages (Mr R. Cutfield), on behalf of tho staff} with a cheque. " "" ' A very well-known commercial travel? ler—Mr. J. S. Brown, traveller for Enj* lish paper manufacturers and printing machinery—is reported to have died iv prisoner of war in Germany on January! 7 last. He went to the front with ona of the Australian drafts last year. A London cable states that Mr. ami Mrs Massey spent the Easter at East* bourne, and Sir Joseph and Lady Wai4 at Minehead. Sir Joseph Ward visits Glasgow on May fi, and reviews 20,004 of the Boys' Brigade. Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie and Pr „ J, Rossiter, of Auckland, have volunteered for service at the front, in response an appeal for more military doctorA ujl Surgeon-General R. 8. F. Henderson They have applied <to the Hospital Board to be relieved of duty at the ho* pital. Dr. Mackenzie is a son of Siij Thoma* Mackenzie, High Commission* ' er for New Zealand, in England. , On Sunday afternoon a presentation was mado to Mr. J, G. i-ist, who leaves with the 28th Reinforcements by tha teachers of St. Mary's Sunday &hool, with which Mr List has 'been connected for some years. The presentation,; which was made by the Rev Dr. O'Caln laglian, took the form of an artistic all bum of views of the church and its sur* roundings. Mr. Thomas Spain an Indian mutlnyi veteran, lias died at his home in HamiU ton, at the age of 87. Mr. Spain had served in the British Army for 21 years and was present at the relief of Luck* now, and had received two medals, ona for long service, and the other obtain* ed for special service. with honour from tho Army, the shin Queen of the Age brought him to KewJ Zealand in the year 1874. Since thai time Mr. Spain has resided ly in Hamilton, He leaves a widow and j descendants of three generations. \ , .Mr. Thomas Spain, an Indian mutiny veteran, has died at his home in Hamilton, at the age of 87. Mr. Spain h*4 served in the British Armv for 21 years] was present at the relief of Lueknow, and had received two medals, one fd long service and the other obtained fa* special service. Discharged with bono? from the Army, the ship Queen of tha Age brought him to New Zealand in tlift year 1874. Since that time Mr. SpaiiJ has resided continuously in Hamilton He leaves a widow and* descendants n» three generations.

Another of the early Canterbury roK tiers, in the person of Mr. George Wtt, ton died on March 31 at the resit of lus eldest son, Kaimata, Inglev i Born nearly ninety-one years ago Hailsham, Sussex, England, lie arrive! . Canterbury sixty-four years ago wi his wife and one child. Though total' blind lor the last three years, he Wq very active both mentally and physically. He celebrated his diamond wed, ding five years ago, Mr. Weston!* survived by his wife, who is in her ninety-second year, four sons and tbrea daugntcrs, and his grand-children great-grandchildren number eighty, About 10 a.m. yesterday morning JJJohn Handy droppetl down d«id' wY,\» pruning a tree in the garden of his property, occupied by Mr. W. H. Frea, next to his own residence in Eliot street Several neighbors were immediately nn the spot, but life was extinct. Dr. Fqok«* was sent for, and was abb to certify that death was the result of V v. t t\i!, un\ Deceased was a very old «iM,l.,*n» of New Plymouth. He was bom land, but resided in the United for some years before coining to 'U naki over 40 years ago. He carried business for many years as a general storekeeper at the corner of Eliot street) mid Comtenny street, retiring on a compotency about n quarter of a century, ago. He leaves a widow but no ■family. Deceased lias several sisters married well-known settlers, namely, Mrs White bead (Tikovangi), Mrs Z. W. Welti (Mangorei), Mrs J. Hendell (Mahoetahl) and the late Mrs. Jas. Wade (Wcstowiilj Sergeant fieorge Bates, son of Mr. Hates, of Hintoul Street, Wellington, who was serving his apprenticeship on the linotype staff of the New Zealand limes before lie enlisted for active sc?» vice, has been awarded the D.C.M. ai><* mentioned in despatches lor exceptional gallantry in the Held. Sergeant Bateg lias earned bis honours arlY it" life, being but a young man of twenty years of age. A\riting recently froa '■Somewhere in France" to a frhrd i* Wellington, lie says be has keen {through some heavy raids ani k»rs lighting, after which he had been gr»n*i ed four, days leave in Paris. "RecenN 1.v," writes Sergeant Bates, "I bail another 'go' iu a raid, and we succeed ed in capturing 19 prisoners and kill* ing 45 others. It is very cold here, ani we bad snow on the ground for nearly a month. Presently it will thaw, anil spring will come along once again. 1 I hope then to bo very fit for Frita." Sergeant Bates went to Samoa as a prl« vato, and when he returned joinel t|»' New Zealand Rifle Brigade.