PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from Pari6 reports the death' of M. Hilaire Degas, the celebrated painter, at the age of S3. A cable from London states tliat A«he, i Sinn Feiner, died at Mount Joy prison i in Dublin.

Private W. N. Stephenson, Tariki, who has just returned from the front, is at present in New 'Plymouth. The award of the Military Medal to Private Edmund Athelstone Tuke, an old New Plymouth boy, ; is confirmed in orders recently issued. ;

Mrs. Golding, i "Rahui," has received a letter from her son Ivan, who is serving in the - Artillery, in- which In mentions he has gained a stripe. Mr. J. C. Cooper, managing director of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, and an advisory director of ths local company, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth.

The names of the nine Now Zealanders killed in the railway accident jji HRgland, are published in this morning's cable messages. The list includes S. West, nephew of Mrs. F.'H. Sampson, of Sentry Hill, to whom, as well as to tha other relatives of the. deceased soldier, sincere condolences will be tendered.

The following names of Taranaki men are included in the hospital progress report, issued in Wellington on Thursday: Seriously ill: A. J. Mack (New Ply. mouth). Severe cases: H. W. Pitt (Urenui), T. Gerard (Hawera), J. G. Jarvis (Taranaki), J. E, Stiewry (Taranaki)

A private cable message received yesterday states that Captain Eric Corkill, li.A.M.C., second son of Mr. T.' E. Corkill, of Wellington, has been awarded the Military Cross, and has also been creau ctl Chevalier de l'Ordre. dc Leopold by the King of the Belgians/ Or. Corkill completed his medical studies at Edinburyh tiniversity shortly after the war broke out, and. has for the last two years been actively engaged at the front, his name having been mentioned in despatches on several occasions; . The Pntea Press says that word waa received this week from Lieut. 0. Bayly, of Toko, the old Tarnriaki representative football player, to the effect that he was fit and well in 'Palestine. He has been under fii'e several times and makes light of the troubles, with, regard to heat, flies, etc. He mentions the fact that hia brother-in-law, Captain J. B. Hine, M.P., was doing splendidly at the time of writing. He had recently led his brigade into action, tl» Major being in hospital. Among the New Zealand soldiers killed in the railway catastrophe hear (Plymouth (England) was Cjhudleigh Kirton, youngest son of Mr. R„ Kirton, of Fitzroy, and a well-known settler in the Uruti district. He left with the 28ths, and with them had only arrived in England on Monday, and with 8 of his comrades shared an awful fate, before even being afforded an opportunity of upholding the cause to which they had manfully pledged >their young lives. As a boy, Chudleigh Kirton was extremely popular among his schoolmates, bright tand kindly in disposition, and full of promise for a successful future. The greatest sympathy is felt for his bereaved par« ents and kin. - .

A list of commissioned and non-com* missioned officers promoted while on active service was issued in Wellington oil Thursday. The promotions date back to January last, the delay in publication being due to unforeseen circumstances. Among the names are those of the following Taranaki men:— Seconded) ?) for-' duty to New Zealand: Second-Lieutenant'' E. L. Okey. To he second, in command of battalion: Major 0. H. We3ton. Transferred to units set opposite their names: Lieut. (?. F. Bertram!, Wellington; Lieut. J. N. Billiard, Wellington. In the JNew Zealand Medical Corps, Major A. R. L. D. Carbery, F.R.C.S., relinquishes rank of D.0.D., M.S.. New Zealand Division, o«, being posted to command a section of No. 4 N.Z. Field Ambulance.