PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Brisbane cable reports that Mr. I). E. Hoolihan, a New Zealander, will manage the State arsenic mine. i Miss Adela Pankhurst has, says ft Melbourne cablegram, been released from prison, owing to ill-health. T Mrs. J. B. Hine, Toko, had received a telegram stating that Captain Hine hu been discharged from hospital. Adjutant and Mrs. Hultquist left for the north by the Rarawa last night, to take up their new appointment in chaxta of the Salvation Army corps at Hamilton. Mr. A. T. Moore, of New Plymouth, has been appointed judge of the, dog section at the Egmont A. and P. Association's show, to be held on Februair SO and 21. ¥ The death is announced of Mr. W, 3E$ Clark, for many years head teacher of the Lumsden School, Otago, aged fiftyseven years. The deceased was the third son of Mr. John Clark, of Portobello, Dunedin. A special Waverley message to the Wanganui Chronicle states that Mr. B. P. Blake, who had been missing since Thursday last, was found near Waitotara Heads. He was apparently suffer-' ing from sunstroke. Sergeant S. Frickleton, V.C., of the Rifle Brigade, and Sergeant L. W. Andrew, V.C., of the Wellington Regiment, have both (the Otago Daily Times' Lou* don correspondent reports) been' recommended by General Godley for commissions in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. A Londoii cable states that Captain Eric Crofts, late medical student in Dunedin, who was engaged to marry Miss Iris Jardine, daughter of Mr> Ernest Jardipe, M.P., fractured his skull on the eve of his wedding by falling down the staircase in a hotel. He died in the Charing Cross Hospital. He wore the Military Cross, and was twice wounded. The latest casualty list contains the names of the following Taranaki men:— Wounded, admitted to hospital! W. Rosewarne (J. Rosewarne, Whangamomaoa, mother), F. Castle (0. L. Catfle, Manaia, wife). In the hospital and progress report the following names appear.— Severe cases: 13. Harinan (Whangamomonaj, A .Hay (New Plymouth). Not se[verp cases: Lieut. N. G. Sutherland, C. W. Goodwin (Midhirst), and J. P. CSillHvan (Opunake). The Patea Press records thi death of Mr. W. Dickie, which took place at Waverley, at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Mr. Dickie, who has suffered from internal complaints for many years, Was taken seriously ill a few days ago, and'removal to the Patea Hospital was advised. Complications, however, set in before he could be removed, and ended fatally on Saturday morning. Deceased was well known and highly respected, ■ and his demise will be regretted by a 'Vge circle of friends. In partnership with his brother for many years, he car- | ried on business as a miller in Waver» ley, and when the partnership was dissolved he took over the Waverley business.

Rakaia lost one of its oldest resident* recently by the death of Mr. Patrick Coffey, a well-known figure in the township. Mr. Coffey was born in Killarney, Ireland, 86 years ago, and came out to New Zealand in the ship Waitangi in 1S7(1. Ever since that time, 41 he has resided in Rakaia, where he ««• tablished ,tho first bootmaker's business. He was a first cousin of the Bishop ol Kerry. Mr. Coffey was of a retiring disposition, and seldom took part in public affairs, but by his sterling honesty of purpose earned the esteem of all who knew him. His descendants comprise two daughters and five, sons, 27 grandchildren,_and six great, grandchildren. Two of liis sons. Privates Cornelius Coffey and James Peter Coffey are serving with the forces in Prance, N The death is announced at Palmerston North of Thomas Gore Grahftjn, uged .eighty-nine years. Mr. GratittJii arrived in Auckland in September,,lijefc after a four-months' voyage in the ship Hanover. Hn was for some time a teacher in Bishop William's native school in Poverty Bay, subsequently joining the staff of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland. Mr. Graham was afterwards transferred to several brandies of tho bank, including New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Wellington. Resigning from the bank's staff in 180S, he was appointed accountant to Messrs Brodgen Bros., and later occupied a similar position in tiie Wellington branch of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co, He retired from active business life some sixteen years ago, and took up his residence in Palmerston North. He was an elder of Bt. Andrew's Church, Palmerston North. Mr Graham leaves a widow and a family of five.