PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

On Tuesday afternoon the deatli tm Mr. James Boon, tlic well-known Nelso* chemist, occurred suddenly at Stoke.

Mr. T F, Beck lias received Advice tbati! Ida- son, Quarterma«tar-Scrgeant Gordon* Mclean Beck, has been wounded and i» at present an inmate of King Edwartf .Hospital, London. \

At Saturday's meeting of the commit' toe ot' the Taranaki Metropolitan Agri* cultural Society, the chairman (Mr. J. S. Connott) referred to the death of two members of tlie society—Messre J. Dq|i ami Jolm Skinner—aud a vote of con* clolence with the relatives of deceased' was passed in the customary manner., Mrs. .Surgenor, Manaia, hat (says tht Witness) received a cable from the Baae Records Office, statin™ that lier hugbamtj Private T. G. Surgenor, who was recently badly injured in action in France, ia *tiii seriously ill, but has made some impress* inent.

Mr. 0. Johnson, of Pahiatua, has belli advised that a brother, Henry Cbaffci Johnson, was seriously wounded on-4Mf November. He wap with the L«*4# Machine-gun Section. Another broth**, who was with the Rifle Brigade, and»,w*» ! severely wounded last year, has niw*r»turned to France. Both of thesetsikriein* are well-kwown in the Stratford atftf IHawera districts.

The death is announced of Mrs. W. Black, wifo of Mr. W. A. Black, aolieitiap, of Auckland. The deceased died as'"tbs result of an operation. The deepcetMyfev pathy will be felt for Mr, Black, \rifoitt well-known in Taranald, where in the service of the' "(Railway Deptgt' ment prior to taking up the tor aevyt profession. Mr. Black is Jfr. Ales/ Black, a former. proprietor* oiSai Patek Press. . Mr. James Smith, a resident of tiki Maitai Valley, Nelson district; fer oafej hajf a century, died on New Year's-BH( at the greht age of 94. Mr. Smitiai father was a soldier, andthe mmpifß at the Soldiers' Sons' School, wljen Queen Victoria was crowned. caine out to Nelson in 1856,. and realm in the district up to the time af¥Sjs death. A London cable states it ia affieWM notified that a barony has-been i iniWili iifl pn Sir E. P. Morris, JCC.M.O., Premier of Newfoundland, to reeoosttkM of his long and distinguistad aernce*£> t'lie Empire. The new pear waarboaqwi St. Johns in ISSA and caUedr t»4im3E in 1883, entering Parliament tite 1 year, becoming a Miftliter four jgeattl later and Premier in 1809. He «nt knighted in 1«M, and represented iC foundland at Imperial Conferences.

Mr. David Anderson, Jieftd*of»tfie|fl(!i( of Messrs David Anderson and BMb grocers and general merchants, Hillilitf ton, died on Wednesday. The diganS was born eigfaty-two don, Buckinghamshire, caine to Wellington with his MMttMirt the Pilgrim in 1840. Be leaves. sons—Messrs David Wflfiam and nest Anderson, who are carrying oa4fta business, and Dr. A. L. Anderson, of"® R.A.M.C., who is at present In TiViiiMt tumia—and one daughter, Mrs. HaSfe' Shaw, of Auckland.

Tta following delegates have' ÜBti elected to attend the trfemiiaJtacnieaßfi of the Amalgamated' Society of SbAMh Servants in Wellington in Fttcug*! North Island, traffic department, ♦e*H Glasgow and M. Lee; locomdtwe?; SB Whisker and R. Hasted; maintenaaoeyff? 0. Carr and J..L. Churchouse; wta&akog, J. Elliott and R. Moore. South IsbtuH Traffic, P. Gainea and*!. A. Daviess loo* motive, D, Wilson and P. Roche*, stab* tenance, J. W. Elliot -and P. workshops, J. W. Tooiney ancHWi-Sl van. ,

In a r*cent casualty list tie ' oftlio following Killed in action: Private G. !L. Qfain jfi. Clough, Waiongona, father). iBl ing, believed wounded: Imix-CbrpdSS N. C. Lord (C. P. Xfcrd, Norradfe, father). Wounded: Private T. sTcffi jMrs. E. H. Cox,Opunalfe>,\BiJfc*, \tikaufa ed, admitted to hTrcpitftf • T^|Mrtd | {toS3 1 "B. Weller (A. fwilar, hospital report contains fSenSmaftd > Private W. Joumeatix, TTlimn i **3 dangerously jl>), Private A. p. JcmJSSB sargea»t J. Spenoe, Oie«r Pfwauuth MB seriously ill), and Privaie A. 1i ' Inglewood (removed tfom -esrisd^fiq Mr. John Sullivan, of Metitveiv'Mj sustained another gtest km ™ l "i3 the death of his fjiurth w BMMn Corpora] F. J. Sullivsa, who was UflM in action on Noromber 36. T.tmrn poral Sullivan teft He* feafcurt i3w the Fourth Rainfouaßeata, and am' much figfcthigirt Chtopiir ed'once. He daring the evacuation, being irftachar ta , the Engineers. He titan fa Prance, and participatwWin itt'ttofi&t. >ng with Ids unit. Bdtor* enltatine Unce-Corpowl Srißivaa wm C J* 16 of <*« Thornton noMhjri». tion. Two other sons of Mr. aSEun left with the 9AHn Bbdy. one. S. Sullivan, being kitted in se&gDm • July 26, Wis. The other, Troensr E< bullivan, was blown up wA a m&m.l plosion, and is now in. New Zaaismfnermanently disabled. The hwtoeon-oSS. itary age, Private T. SuUtatn, ia~wm m camp.