PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. T. Quin was on Saturday unanimously re-elected chairman of directors of the Taranaki Farmers' Meat Co. Mrs. Bates, of Bell Block, lias received word that her son, Private E. F. Bates, has been invalided ( home, and will arrive some time this month.

Advice has been received that Private J. E. Daniells, of Rahotu, who left with the 2nd Reinforcements, has been invalided home, and will arrive some time in October.

Mr. Percy Lealand has received advice that his nephew, Private C. 'P. Lealand, has been admitted to the Walton-on-Thames Hospital on September 21, suffering with a contused right hand.

Dr Wade, of New Plymouth, who has been temporarily appointed to the Medical Board, will be absent from Now Plymouth until end of the present week.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Richards have received word that their son, Sergeant Leo. C. Richards, who has been suffering from trench fever, has been transferred to the Hornchurch Convalescent Home.

Mr. R. C. D. Lightbourne, who has been assistant master and -director' of technical education at the Eltham District High School for a number of years, left Eltham for Feilding on Friday. The pupils of the school assembled at the railway Btation to bid him good-bye, and presented him with a case of pipes, suitably inscribed.

Rifleman W. F. Seamark, writing on August 5 from the New Zealand Hospital at Oatland Park, Surrey, to his parents, who reside at Fitzroy, said that he had then been in hospital for six weeks suffering from trench fever and had not improved much. He did not expect to see France again for at least six months. The last time he was in action he was hit three times by pieces of shell and buried once in the same day, but was luckily only bruised.

Mr Douglas Pulsford, of Wellington, has been awarded the Croix do Guerre (War Cross) by the French Government for special services with the British Secret Service, and has also been recommended for the D.C.M., and twice mentioned in despatches. Mr. Pulsford, who left last yepr with the first draft of the New Zealand Motor Boat Patrol, was for some time 011 Messrs James and Gillman's staff, Hawera. He is well known here.

Miss M. Colquhoun, who has been promoted to a position in the secondary department of the Stratford District High School, has been the recipient of many presents from individual pupils of' hei class in the George street school (states the Otago Daily Times). Some of these were a suit case, an oil painting, an ebony manicure set, a handbag, volumes of books, and Irish linen handkerchiefs. She also received many letters of appreciation from the parents of he? pupils. On Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Colquhoun was entertained at afternoon tea by the George street school staff, Mr. C. Bell, the acting headmaster, on behalf of the school staff and the pupils of her class, presented Miss Colquhoun with a valuable gold brooch, and wished her every success in her new position at Stratford.

Private advice has been received in Auckland of the death in action, cm August 20, of Captaain Horace £>, Eccles, R.A.M.C. Captuin Eccles, who was bom in England, and who qualified at Guy'a Hospital, London, arrived in the Dominion in 1900, and started in practice at Mangonui. He held the rank of Captain of the first Mangonui Mounted Rifles, subsequently attaining to the rank of colonel of the North Auckland Regiment Shortly after the outbreak of war he proceeded to England, where ho mlistcd, and was immediately appointed med:c,xi instructor at one of the R.A.M.C camps, and sent to France. On July £3 of this year he waa promoted, mentioned in dispatches, and transferred from the Artists Rifles to the Irish Rifles. Captain Ecclei, who was well known and extremely popular in the Auckland province, served with distinction through the South African War, Bting awarded the Quel's Medal with two clasps. He is survived by Mrs, Eccles, who resides in Auckland.

The death occurred at Wanganui on Tuesday of Mr. William Coleman, at the age of 82 years. Decease,!, who was well known in the Eltham district, where he had been farming for nearly a quarter of a century, arrived at Nelson as a youth and. for some years was engaged in farming in that district and in Canterbury. In the early sixties he took,part in the rush to the Co'lingwioa goldfields, Nelson, where fortune favored him. Having held a coastal captain's certificate he started trading oct'vcei. Nelson and Wanganui, but during a trip with a cargo of lime, the lime got wet and slacked to siieh an extent that the sides of the schooner were buiged out, causing ths craft to founds,-. Captain Coleman succeeded in getting the crew into a boat, and with extreme difficulty all were safely landed, the captain completely collapsing as result of his strenuous exertions. For many years the deceased followed up farming in the Eangitikei district, afterwards taking tip his residence h> Eltham. About 10 years a»r, he retired and removed to' Wanganui. He leaves a widow, four sons, Arthur and Samuel Douglas (Eltham), Jack (Wnitara), and James (Auckland), five daughters, Mrs. Cote and Mrs. Eide (Auckland), Mrs. Edwards (Wanganui), Mrs. Slight (Feilding), and Mrs. John Keen (Hawera).