PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rifleman Cecil Payne, of Hawera, is amongst those slightly wounded in the latest casualty list,

The Vatican has confirmed the report that Mr. Bonar Law's son is a prisoner in Turkey. Lieut. Goss, of the Staff Corps, is in New Plymouth on final leave. Ho will sail with the 27th (Reinforcements as adjutant.

Mr. A. C. Page, of the Dilworth Trust Office, Auckland, has been appointed accountant to New Plymouth Borough Council. Advice has been received that LanceCorporal G. L. tiaylard of New Plymouth, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant in the 28th Reinforcements. Mr. Jas Young, chairman of the Parihaka Hoad Board and Mr. Callaghan, of Oaonui, who have been on a fortnight's vfsit to Auckland and Rotorua, returned to New Plymouth on Wednesaay. A relative of the late Captain A. S. Atkinson has received a message which sliows that the report that he died some time after being wounded was incorrect. Captain Atkinson's sister in London cables that on June 5 he went out to >hc!(p an offijee* who was apparently wounded, and he was then shot and "died gloriously and instantly." Word has been received by Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, that Father MeMenamin has been killed in France. "Father Jim," as he was called, went to Gallipoli with the original force, and performed many acts of bravery that entitled him to a V.C. with several bars, so returned soldiers attest. He was a fine, manly character, and much beloved by "his boys'." Ho later proceeded to France, where he was senior Catholic chaplain to the New Zealand Forces, and wherever his men were, "Father Jim" was not far away. No doubt he was killed whilst succouring or comforting the men in the Messines fighting. Father McMenamin was, Taranaki people will he interested to learn, a protege of the Rev. Father Maples of Stratford, who was then stationed at tho Lower Hutt. The death of Father McMenamin remove?, ohe of the finest characters in the New Zealand Catholic Church, and is nothing short of a national loss. •

Kaponga has lost an old identity in the person of Mr. C. P. Candy, "who passed away at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Kime, on Friday last; The deceased, who was 83 years of age, had been in failing health for some considerable time past, and in consequence his end was not wholly unexpected. The late Mr. Candy was associated with the early history of the cheesemaking industry in New Zealand. When in 1882 the Lincoln Agricultural College was established, the New Zealand Government sought the services of an expert from theOld Country to instruct the students in the manufacture of Cheddar cheese, and Mi-. Candy was selected for the appointment. His services at the College also included .instruction in the buying ano selling of stock. He occupied this posiion for a number of years, and afterwards farmed on his own account at Rprlngston, Canterbury, whence he removed to Taranaki, residing for the past 11! years at Kaponga. ,Mr. Candy was predeceased by his wife some 8 years ago, and leaves four sons and three daughters—Messrs H. 12. Candy, Manaia: iiW. Candy, WhaiiMtrei;,J. Candy, on active service; and S. Candy, Belfast, South Island; and Mrs. W. Hollard, RagIon; Mrs. Kime and Mrs Buckonhani.— Star.