PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Melbourne message states that Cr. Stapley has been elected Lord Mayor. The death occurred last Sunday of Mr. R. M. Baird, aged 59. telegraph engineer for the Auckland district. Mr. J. Little, Sentry Hill, has had advice from the Defence Minister that his lion, Lieut. N. Little, M.C., was wounded on October 4.

Mr. H. J. Barnard, of Eltham, lias received an appointment under the Defence Department. He leaves to take up his duties at Wellington early next week.

A London cable states that the Right Hon. Sir Francis John Stephens Hopwood, at one time Under-Secretary for the Colonies, has been created a peer. A Copenhagen message states that, according to the Vossiche Zeitung, the Dowager Empress of Russia is dying at Yalta.

A cable message has been received from Sergeant Pini, the well-known Waimato and Taranaki representative footballer, who has been in an English hospital for some time, suffering from wounds received on the Western front, stating that he expects to be leaving for New Zealand at an early date.

A hospital progress report issued on Wednesday included the following: Not reported as severe cases—Lieut. J.. N. Billiard (Taranaki), A. A. Askew (Taranaki), A. E. E. Barriball (New Plymouth). R. A. T. Hounslow (Taranaki), G. Lepper (Urenui), X. McLean (Waverley), A. E. Rickleben (New Plymouth).

Mr. A. E. flyman, manager of the Lyttelton Times Company, whose health has been unsatisfactory iately, has been ordered a lengthy holiday hy'his doctor, and will leave shortly for Australia. He will spend six months there. During his absence Mr. Robert Bell, proprietor of the Ashhurton Guardian, will act as manager of the Lyttelton Times,

Mr. G. H. Gallaher received word yesterday afternoon that his brother, Lieut. D. Gallalier, who left with the -22 nd Re-' inforcements, had been killed in action on October 4. Lieut. Gallaher w;is known among sportsmen throughout the Dominion, and skippored the first All Black team in their English tour. Dr. Owen Evans, son of Mrs. E. Evans, Stratford, recently arrived with a batch of wounded per hospital ship at Auckland, and is at present on a visit to his mother. Dr. Evans has been right through the war, having volunteered at the outbreak, and has seen the war from the front ranks to the hospital centres in London. Dr. Evans had time during his stay in London to secure the coveted letters F.R.C.S. after his name. For a few days he will remain in Stratford, and then will report for service.

Flight-Lieut W. W. Cook, who is mentioned in last night's cables as having received the Military Cross, is a son of Mr. W. Cook, of Pahnerston North. Lieut. Cook joined the aviation school at Kohiniaroma, Auckland, where- he had a very brilliant career. He left New Zealand with the 21st Reinforcements in January last. A recent letter to his people stated that Cook had been detailed for duty with the Royal Flying Corps on the east coast of Scotland, where, as he expressed it, they were engaged in Zep strafing.—< Press Association.