PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London, cable states that Lieut. H. Kaillieu, of the Garrison Artillery, o Melbourne man, has been a warded the Military Cms. , The announced of Mr. William .Conway, of who arrived there iu i 1862, and was engaged in, the carriage of ammunition during the Maori war! He was eighty-four years of age.

Word has been received in Palmcreton that Lieut. Warburtort., of the Flying Corps, previously reported mis/jing, is now a prisoner in Germany. He accompanied flight Commander Robinson, V.C to France, and it is' presumed he wap captured .with him at Karlsruhe. •'

Mr. J. Bartlett, of Hawera, received word that his nephew, Private Harry Bartlett, who was serving with the South-African Scottish regiment, had been killed in action in France. Private Bartlett was the third son of Major E. Bartlett,i D.5.0., who was at one time a resident of Hawera.

A recent: casualty list contains the following: Sapper W. D. Roebuck, New Plymouth (C..<2. Roobuck, New Plymouth brother), Private J?. M. Gat-ton- (Mrs V. 8. Gntton, Stratford, mother). A hospital progress report contains the following.-. Pronounced out-of danger, Private Tu Maaka (Hawera), Private F. H. Peapell (Waverley), Private P. A. Rook (New Plymouth). "

Last month Mr. A. Hftndcock, of Myrrhee,- enlisted! at Wangratta (says the Melbourne Age). . Ho is the eighth son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Handcock to be accepted for service. Five sons arc serv-ing-in France, the sixth returned tb' Australia recently, and tho seventh gave his life on Gafllipoli. One son t . 18 years, remains at home.

Corporal A. \V. Brown, who went away with the main >.dy, and fought'through the Galljgoli campaign, and is njaw in France, has heen awarded the D.C.M. "for conspicuous gallantry in action. He established and maintained communications, and frequently repaired wires under heavy fire.'' Corporal Brown was, prior to enlisting, on the Wanganui telegraph office staff, and was very prominent in athletic circles, especially as a footballer. '

Archdeacon Grace, of Nelson, has re. ceived a cable message announcing that his eldest son, Captain Humphrey Grac-. 1 , who is serving with the Indian Army i:i Mesopotamia, has been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Grace, who w an old Nelson College boy, wag' granted a commission in the British Armv from Nelson College in 1904, and in 1905. ho.' qualified for the Indian Stan" Corps. In 1008 he saw active service with the Indian Army against the Zakka rebeb. Captain Grace's regiment was the first to outer Bagdad when it was taken by our forces recently. Mr. William Hollis, one of the early' settlers in the Upper Thames, is dead. Born in Auckland in 1832, he settled in the Oiiinomuri district in IS7S, nnd was for a great many years a prominent figure in mining circles.. He wa* one of the original owners,of a part of Waihi mine, and he worked several mining properties at Waitekauri on the tribute' system. While working a portion of the Waitekauri mine on tribute), he and his brother discovered Butler's reef, containing' ni rich patch of gold, some of which yielded over 12oz to the ton, and the company took Goz per ton out of the tailings by the berdan treatment, In one period of three -weeks the tributers mode as much, as £763 per man after all expenses had been paid. Sir. Hollis afterwards took the Waitekauri mine and battery on tribute, and worked it with success! for two years and a half. He was also manager of several mines in the Upper Thames district. Relinquishing a mining career, he engaged in farming at Puke."

A Dunetlin message announces the death of Mr. Andrew Lee Smith, at the age of SO years. Tho deceased gentleman was born in Yorkshire, and was educated privately in. the Old Country. He camo to New Zealand in 1808, arid landed at Wellington. He unsuccessfully contested the Dunedin City and Bruce seats, and was called, to the Legislative Council by the Seddon Government. In 1899 he represented NawlZealawl at the Imperial Conference held at bttawa. The late Mr. Smith was a Nationalist, and when tlio first Irish delegation, In the persons of Mr. John Dillon and Sir Thomas Esmoude, visited New Zealand, they \ve» his guests at Green Island during their stay in Dunedin. He waß previously intimately connected with large manufacturing, and 'cPmmerclai businesses), and was chairman of directors of Donaghy's Rope and Twine Company, of Dunedin. Mr. T. Clare, of New Plymouth, who knew the late Mr. T. Wills for over forty years, sends the following interesting note tp tile Hawera Star: "Mr. Wills and his wife arrived in Now'. Plymouth as «hildr«i with their parents iby the ship Timailra, on February 2i 1&2. My parent*' also came by the same ship. I think it was the Government of that timjo who placed 1b ndnibei:. of -pioneers on the Block, about nine miles from New In about three 'yeans' timoY-ftp'ivßveiF, the natives decided;to eject tfioettlerst. aiiaV'aH'had to leave except the Wills family, all of whom became great favorites with the Maoris; in fact, the whole of iho family j became Maori linguists, and remained on ( their farm till .1880,' -when hostilities■ ' brpke* out between the natives and the ■Government. The family then had to leave their land, as "well as others who hiiuVliy degrees settled! in the district. The lite Mr. T. Wills, wufe then appointed a. natjvß-interpreter, ranked as captain of a imllitary oontingent, and received a grant of land in the tlrehui district" for Jus. services. He was one of the few veterans who, having done their'share of daring and enduring in the fateful lighting days,' lived, on until these still' more "fateful andi'trouWed times.'*