PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from Honolulu reports the death of Queen Lilioukalani.

Corporal L, Teed, who left recently an chief dispenser on r transport, has now received orders to return with his ship. A London cable states that MajorGeneral Birdwood has been promoted to General.

Mr. A. Bramley, of New Plymouth, lias been advised that his brother, Private J. M. Bramley, of the Australian infantry, has been killed in action.

Mr. Gordon Gilbert, Vogeltown, has received advice that his brother, Gunner H. C. Gilbert, of the Australian artillery, wax killed in action on October 25. Gunner. Gilbert was a son of Mr. H. E. Gilbert, who was postmaster at YVaitara for some years, and is stationed at Rotorua, and was for some time a member of the staff of Messrs Govett and Quilliam. Saturday's casualty list contains the names of the following Taranaki men: Killed in action: Private Frederick Chas Gates (Mrs. Gates, Tc Roti); wounded, Private Henry John Stevens (Mrs. K. Bennett, Pate-.i, siater (; Private Albert Edward Lumsdcn (C. Lumsden, Wniongona, father); correction, previously reported wounded, now reported not wounded, Private John Groves Hodder (A. W. Hodder, Whangomomona). Mrs. M. Colclough, Hawera, lias been advised by the Minister for Defence that her husband, Private C. M. Colclough, was wounded and admitted to 'hospital on October 29. Private Coldough, previous to enlisting, was oil the clerical staff of Messrs James and Gillman, and was also librarian of the Male Choir.

Another old Wanganui schoolboy, Corporal Ernest Pope, of the 3rd Reinforcements, has been awarded the Military Medal, gays the Chronicle. Corporal Pope is a son of the late Captain Pope, and a brother of Mrs. A. Whiteford. He has been in action continuously in France, except for six days' leave recently spent in Paris, and was slightly wounded in the recent heavy fighting. In referring to a recent casualty TTst the Dannevirke News says:—"Among those to make the supreme sacrifice was Sergeant Cecil M. Kivell, son of a Stratford resident, and well known in Dannevirke. He was a fine young man, one who was much admired and liked by all with whom he came in touch. The writer remembers the day he enlisted. He said he had looked at the matter from all aspects, had made peace •with man and his God, and bad considered that duty compelled him to go. The professorial board of the Auckland University College has selected Second-Lieutenant N. A. Jory as tho Auckland candidate for the Rhodes scholarship. Lieutenant Jory. who is now in "Featherston camp, attached to the thirty-fourth reinforcements, is 21 years of age, and is the son of the Rev. .T. D. Jory, of Birkenhead. He is an old Grammar School boy, and was one of the team of rifle-shots who won the Natal Shield for the school in 1012. Lieutenant Jory's most notable scholastic achievement was securing fijrst place in the junior scholarship examination for New Zealand. He also secured the Gillies' scholarship at the Auckland University College, besides two New Zealand University senior scholarships —for chemistry and physics respectively.

Mr. J. Brash, one of Taranaki's best known and most popular commercial travellers, who entrains for camp this morning, was entertained last night at an informal gathering in the White Hart Hotel by a number of his colleagues on the road,' business people with whom he has come in contact, and personal friends. After light refreshments had been pa»jtaken of, Mr. J. Kenny spoke in hifh terms of their guest's fine qualities, voicing the regret of all at his departure, expressing every confidence that he would do his duty to the Empire with fie same conscientious thoroughness that he had served his firm, and expressed a hope for his speedy and safe return. He also presented Mr. Brash wi'.h a wristlet watch for himself, and a cafte containing initialled silver fork and spoon for Baby Brash. Messrs J. D. Sole, H. Urquhart, R. Paul, H. Brookman and others who have known the recipient during the six or seven years he has been on the road here, also spoke. Mr. Brash suitably responded. A number of songs were rendered during the evening.