PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. K. C. Hughe? was a passenger*for Wellington by the mail train this morn-, ing.

Advice was received yesterday by Mr. T. W. Rhodes, M.P., that, his eon, Private E. Rhodes, had been' killed in action.

Mr. J. Henrys, jun., has been appointed handicapper for the Stratford Racing Club.

A cable has been received that Bombardier J. C. Sumner, kte of Oakura, has been wounded in tho knee, but is doing well. A London cable states that Captain Basil Wood, the dramatist, was found dead in'W3 bed.

A cable has been received by Mr. AY. R. Loighton that his son, Gunner Roy Leighton, has had to have his right leg amputated. Ho is in the Walton-on-Thames Hospital. Lieut. .Tames Mills, only son of Mr. James Mills, chairman of the Union Company, who mas reported missing after the Nieuporfc engagement, is now reported a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe.

Mr. J. T. Belcher, of Cardiff, has received a telegram from the Minister of Defence stating that his sou, who left with tho 10th Reinforcements, was wounded on June 27. Private Belcher, before going into camp, was in the Deeds Ofiiee at 'Xew'Plymouth. Mr. J. G. Harkness, secretary of the National Dairy Association, and formerly manager and secretary of the Midliirst Dairy factory, who has been on a short visit to the Midhirst district, returns to Wellington by the mail train this morning.

Tho following names of Taranaki men appear in yesterday's casualty list and Hospital progress report':—Wounded: D. A. Belcher (Mr. J. Belcher, Cardiff, father). Wounded, admitted to hospital: P. Hodges (Mr. P. Hodges, Xgatoro, In'glewood, father). Still dangerously ill: D. Langley Piew Plymouth). " Prince Friedricli' Karl of Prussia, who has died a prisoner in British hands, is the tenth German' prince who has lost his life in tlio war, '' Three Princes of Lippe and two of Meiriingen are amongst them, as well as one each of tho princely houses" of ©esse, Reuse, Waldcck,. and Liechtenstein. Only one Austrian prince —Prince Emanuel of Salm-Salnir-Jias been killed. In addition, the 'Kaiser's brother-in-law, Prince Adolf of Schauin-burg-tippe, and Duke "Udrichof Wur-; fcemburg have been wounded, and the Prince •' of - Hohe-nzollem - Sigmaringen. (who was an officer on tho notorious Emdcn) is prisoner. The Austrian Prince Emanuel of Salm-Salm, who was killed • outside AVarsaw, was holidaymaking in South Africa when the war broke out, and was taken to Gibraltar and interned there. An exchange of prisoners, was, however, arranged, and the prince was allowed his freedom in exchange :for Colonel Gordon, V.C., and returned to Austria, to loae his life shortly afterwards'during the, big Aus> tro-German offensive in Poland.