PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Charles Avery, an old and highlyesteemed settler in the Pahiatua district, died on Monday, aged 00.

Ptivate John Franklin, of Manaia, who ieft with tho 18th Reinforcements, has been very seriously wounded in France. In the latest casualty list Private G. N. Deighton, formerly of Mr. Newton King's New Plymouth office, is reported to be seriously ill. A London cable says that Lieutenant H. Speight, of the New 'Zealand Field Artillery, has been awarded the Military Cross.

AVord has been received by cable thai Arnold (Eric) Grant, who was removed from hospital in France suffering from pneumonia, is now at the Hornchurch convalescent depot. Mr. Cecil Quilliain, son of Mr. J. H. Quilliam, loaves New Plymouth on Saturday to join the 34th Reinforcements as a second lieutenant.

Word was received on Monday night taht Corporal Alan Matthews, Taranald Infantry (son of Mr. and Mrs. R. j! Matthews, Fit'roy), had been wounded in the chest on June 5, slight, and that he '\vas in hospital in France.

Advice was received yesterday that Private Sid. Armstrong, well known down the coast, had been severely wounded on June 10, in one of his knees, and was in hospital at Brockenhurst. Sergeant R. J. Eyre, of the 28th Reinforcements, arrived by train last night to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Eyre, of Brougham Street.

Advice was received by Sirs. C. J. Balsom, of Tarurutangi, yesterday that her husband, who went with the lflth Reinforcements, had received a severe gunshot wound in the chest and was-an inmate of Brockenhurst hospital. Mr. E. D. Hoben, one time of the Palmerston Times, and later of the Chriatchureh News, has received an appointment on the editorial staff of the Melbourne Herald, the only evening paper in theTictorian capital.

In Tuesday's and hospital lists the names of the following Toranaki men appear:—Wounded, admitted to hospital—A. E. Atkinson (Mrs. S. A. Atkinson, Normanby); C. Edwards (Mrs E. E. Edwards, Hawera). Seriously ill— J. M. Franklin, Hawera, Not severe case—H. R. Greig, Ngaere. Mr. Samuel Dawson, one of Wellington's oldest settlers, died suddenly at his residence at Island Bay on Saturday. The deceased, who was in his 70th year, was an engineer by trade, and some years ago left Wellington to enter upon a farming life at Newman. The Dunedin correspondent of a Christ•church paper states that Mrs. J. M. Ritchie, of Dunedin, has honored the memory of her son, Lieutenant Ritchie, who lost his life iii Mesopotamia in the service of his country, by discharging the debt (£1300) upon St. Mary's Orphanage, Mornington, in which he had shown so deep an interest in his life.