PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Tho Rev. Father Keogh, S.M., formcniy Hector of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, is at present dangerously ill at Crecnmcadows Seminary, Meeaneo. • Mr T. B. Close, Hawera, has received advice that his son, 'Private J. Close, is -■.eriously ill at Cairo. Ho weiit away last December with the Mounted Rifles. The death is reported of Mr. William John liylth, a well-known Wellington man, at Tauranga on Thursday. He wa? born in Wanganui in 1859, and was employed at the Bank of Now Zealand. Cable advice states that Lance-Corpl. L. St. V. Mcrcier, soil of Mrs W. (ireeti, of Hawera, reported wounded last month, is improving. He is now at Codford Convalescent Hospital. Mr 0. Ilurrell, Hawera, has received a telegram from Sir J, Allen reporting that his son, 10/2650 A. Hurrell, was admitted to Walton-on-Thames Hospital, on July 19th, with a fracture of the first metacarpal (linger}, accidental; Ex-Alderman ft. H. Sparkcs, who fought with the 18th Royal irith Regiment in the Maori wars between 180,'1 and 1800, died at Sydney last week, aged 74 years.

Mr. L. C. Jennins, who holds a commission in the mieninc-gun section of the Second Mounted Rifles, has volunteered and been accepted for active service with the Expeditionary Forces.

At St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, yesterday, the marriage took place of Miss Hilary Lepper, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Lepper, of Lepperton, and Lieutenant Stanley Bongard, of Auckland, who recently returned wounded from the Western front. The Rev. F. G. Ilarvie, vicar, was the officiating minister. Mr. Max Lepper attended the bridegroom as best man. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a green costume and green hat with yellow mount. Tho names of the following Taranaki men are included in yesterday's hospi' tal reports:—Dangerously ill: J. T. Close Hawera. Removed from dangerously ill list: E. .P. Hally, Awakino. Severe cases: O. T. Chapman, Waitara; J. W. Davidson, Taranaki; R. Fraser, Taranaki; P. Crooby, Taranaki- E. D. J. Lepir.e, New Plymouth; T. L. Williams, Ha\fsra; G. Zinsli, Hawera. Not severe cases: P.. F. Cottier, Ingiewood; J. !D. Fraser, Mokau; A. Ilurrell, Hawera; A. E. Nathan, New Plymouth; J. Reid,-Taranaki; Corporal P. J. Watts, New Plrmouth.

The Right Rev. Monsignor McKenna, of Mafiterton, told an Age representative that details had been received of the circumstances under which ChaplainCaptain McMenamin had fallen at the front. The Padre was engaged in conducting a burial service at a soldier's •grave, round which six soldiers were standing, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon A shell fell in -their midst, and the Padre was killed outright, while the remainder were wounded. The body of ChaplainCaptain McMenamin was interred in a grave adjoining that of the soldier at 0 o'clock on the same evening.

Dr. Harold Williams, son of the Rev. W. J. Williams, of Sumner, and formerly of Wellington South, according to latest reports is at present in Petrograd. He was acting in Russia as special correspondent to the London "Daily Chronicle" and "Daily Telegraph." He has made a special study of the characteristics of - the Russian people. His new book "Russian Realities and Problems," deals fully with the reform movement of the Finns, Letts, Lutherans and other people within the great .Russian Empire. Major Owen Williams another son, at one time a master at Wellington College, is at present with the New Zealand forces. A third son, Captain H. Williams, is in the employ of the Union Company, and had charge of a New Zealand transport,