PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rauavoja, ex-Queeni of. Madagascar, lias died iu Algiers. |

A cablegram from New Rork reports tlic death of Les, Darcy, the Australian boxer.

A recent hospital progress report contains the following; Removed from dangerously ill list,' p Rifleman H. H. Curtis (Inglowood); removed from seriously ill list, Rifleman Ii. i: ,G. Flyger (Hawera).

There are now rip'road boards in the Patea County, the last of them being merged'in wjth the council at the, last meeting. The chairman of the council stated it would rilean an additional subsidy of £I2OO to the council.

The latest casualty list includes the following Taranaki men:—Woiin'ii'd: Corporal Spencer 0. Pope (Mrs. I'npe, New 'Plymouth, wife) j Rifleman fiarnct Williams (Edmund Williams, Elthani, father), Rifleman Charles H. Pollard (Chas. Polldrd, Kapuni, father); Gunner Horace E. Robinson (Mrs Robinson, Ultham, mother).

Thus the Eltham Argus: The Military Hoards are, it seems to us, paying v«si-y patient attention to religious objectors, amongst wliomf' it'is plainly evidsi.t, there are a number of hypocritical" frauds. We have one or two of the.-e ■individuals in our, mind's eye, and we know their pedigree. They have lived a miserably selfish life, never gave a sixpence to a cliarity, or a moment of their time .to .their , country's service, pud when something is now demanded of t'icm they decline in the name of Christ. The rotters! . ,«., She was a "war "bride" resident in Southland, says the,'loeal Times. Her hero husband had.'hot been very long away from Maoriland's shores, so the telegram from the, Minister for Defence to the effect that he was returning and was due in Wellington on such and such a .date caAe' as a surprise. For the ton or "twelve intervening nights she could hardly sleep for wondering over his return and its possible, reasons. Then, us the appointed date drew night, she. hied herself off to the capital to meet the boat. After all, it wasn't her fault that there shbiildibe Another of his name, initials and rank, and that their ricords should have got mixed. All the same, her feelings towards the department •."ere not of the most affectionate. Nor were they rendered less bitter vhn >he found awaiting'at her home the tabic from England: "Arrived. safely, /' Mr. Massoy and Sir Joseph Ward, who reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, a few (lays ago, on their way to the Dominion, probably will be back,in Wellington in time to attend the opening of Parliament. 'Ministers who have spoken recently in the Dominion have expressed an intention of making the session as short as possible by confining it to war legislation. It is, however, more than probable- that their expectations of a short session will prove difficult of realisation.. Apart altogether from the contemplated legislation, there is a deter-, mination on the part of some members to force a full discussion of matte™ that have been the subject of complain*, and on which public comment has been restricted by the existing legislation. Tt is recognised at the present time, that Parliament Is the. only place where criticism can be safely entered upon.