PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

' A Pelrcgrad cablegram reports the death of M, Stunner, ex-Premier.. At a meeting ol" the Taranaki Grocers* Assistants' 'Union on Tuesday night, Mr. V. J. Lyons was elected secretary, Mr. J. Moveriey having resigned. Mr. P. N.: Jefireya, manager oE the New Iplymouth ollieo of the Union S.S. Company, >vill shortly be absent for a month on holiday leave. During this time Mr. D. Morrison will be in charge. Sergeant D'Arey Penwarden, who was wouniled on the Somme, was amongst the wounded in the last hospital ship, and is now an inmate of the Victoria Hospital, • Ellington. He is progressing slowly, and it will be some time yet before he will be able to get about. Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. H. Jeffrey, of Bell Block, of the death of their 'son. Sorgt. IT. J. Jeffrey, of the 13th Reinforcements, who killed in action, in France on 20th June, 'i'iie pandits have already received the personal effects including a pair of powerful field glasses captured from a Gorman. Mr. J. C. Cooper, managing director of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, 'who has been addressing meetings of farmers in North Taranaki during the la .t few days in connection with the shortage of shipping question, left Inglewood on his return to Masterton yesterday. The following names of Taranaki men appear in the hospital report issued in Wellington on Tuesday night:—'Still (iangeroubiy ill: D. Langlcy (New Plymouth). Severe case: T. I>. Connell (Waitara), J. P.. Woodmore (New Plymouth). Not severe cases: F. J. Flynn (Te Wera), It. L. Joll (New Plymouth). Messrs. Armstrong (district traffic manager) and Koch (district engineer), of the Railway Department, were in New Plymouth yesterday, to confer with the sub-inspector of police regarding the control of the wharf when overseas vessels are here, and the facilities that will be a [forded for railway traflie during the time the wharf is barricaded ami under police control. They left for Hawera by the afternoon train. Sergeant Joseph Swinburne Kelly, a former member of the police force, died at the Auckland Hospital on Sunday, at the age of fitf. Sergeant Kelly, who was born at Remuera, was the fifth son of Captain Robert Kelly, of the 83ru Regiment. After being for some yearn in charge of the Devonport district, Sergeant Kelly was stationed at Opunake. Since his retirement some years ago he lies been living at St. Helliers Bay. He is survived by' Mrs. Kelly, but leaves no family. Two sons of Mr. P. M. Byrne, of Matmia, have received commissions at the front. One of them, Gunner J. RBvrnc, is now a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery. Prior to leaving New Zealand he was on the reporting staff of the Evening Post. He went away with the First Contingent, served in Egypt, and was at the first landing on Gallipoli, rroing back to Egypt and France after the evacuation. The other son, Arthur K. Byrne, is now a second lieutenant attached to an Infantry Regiment. He was for some years on the literary staff of the Otago Daily Times, and also worked for Australian papers. A third son, Corporal V. J. Byrne, is also in France. An old colonist passed to her rest on Friday morning, in the person of Mrs. 0. Rows, of Hawera, at the great ago of just over ninety-one years. She was born in Fifes-hire, Scotland, and arrived at Port Chalmers in the early days of Nov,- Zealand by the sailing ship Strathalien. Forty-three years ago she, with her 'husband and two children, went to livo on the Knapdale station, the property of the late Dr. McNab's father, where they resided for some seven years. After the death of her husband she lived at Gore until eleven years ago, when she came to live with her daughter, Mrs. Fryer, at Hawera. For the last nine years she has been bedridden. She leaves two daughters, eighteen grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.— Star.