PERSONAL.
IT. Holland vacates the editorship •if the M.-iorilnnd Worker at tlio end of the present, month. A very old and respected resident of Inglevood, in the person of Urn. Duftill, purged away on Tuesday morning after a ioj.g and painful illness. Mr. .T. C. Walking, late of tlie Union Steamship Co., New Plymouth. has been transferred to one of the Inter-Colonial bosiK His. .I, 1!. lline. Toko, lias received cable adviee from her husband, Captain [line, M.P., tliat lu lias arrived in Australia, and will be leaving for New Zealand by the Sydney boat.—Post. | The death is announced of Air. Joseph j Handel, of Hie tin,, of Mandel and Carr, and president of tin; Jewish Synagogue', ill Wellington, Jie ;..aves a family" of two sons and three daughters, liis eldest son being Dr. Leo Handel, of the staff of the Royal Naval Hospital at Edinburgh. An old Wangarmi resident, in the person of Mrs. W. Coleman, died on Tuesday, a. the :.ge ol sixty-seven years. The deceased, who wan formerly Mrs. George Evans, had resided in Wanganui for thirty years, and was esteemed by a large cirele of friends. Two more so'diers who returned with the reeently lauded drafts arrived in Kltli'im on Wednesday evening. vi;i.. Private Ptndie, who is well known in K' t'lam, and Private Wilkie, of Ngaere. Private Jones, who arrived home some Weeks sinee, also detrained at Kllham, Where he is slaying for a few days.— Argus. Tin-, members of the No. 1 Wellington Military Service Board (Messrs I) Ci. A Cooper, S.M., chairman, W. G. Williams and, J) McLaren), accompanied by Capta.n Walker, military representative, Major Cox- officer commanding the Croup, anil Air. Walsh, secretary to the Board, leave for Hawera this morning by tlin mail train. Miss Richards, of Auckland, who is on a visit to friends in Nelson, received word on Saturday that her brother, Dr. Frederick 0. Richards, was among the recipients of the D.S.O. at the New Year, receiving the decoration from his Majesty. Dr. Richards is a distinguished old boy of Wellington College, and some eleven years ago took up the study of medicine ut Guy's Hospital, London. At the commencement of the war he volunteered lor service, and has spent practically the whole time since in France. At his" own request, he was transferred from the British Army to the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, once hailed as the. saviour of liussia and for a brief time after the first revolution virtually the dictator of the new republic, has disappeared from the ken of the world. He has been reported as having- been seen here and there fince his tiight. and at one time was paid to be dying, Ibut, Mrs. Vladimir Baranovs ky, his sister-in-law, who arrived in San Francisco with her husband early in January, believes that the former Prcir : T is lying low, awaiting the physchoii,j'ieal moment to move ags'nst the Lenin-Trotsky Government with a new blow for the liberty of Russia as he conceives it. Corporal F. G. uielianlson, son of Mr. H. G Richardson, of Unit;, has again distinguished himself in France, this time not by killing Germans but by winnTng a second prize for bayonet fighting, pit> ted against four divisions. lie gives some particulars in a letter to his people. He says:—'T have been away at a school' for the last month for a, course of initru'iion and I. picked up a good bit while I was there. I woi a medal for bayonet fighting, and the colonel of our baUalion has got it at present He is gouig to get it inscribed for me, and A,'hen I get it I will send it home. I won it from competitors from four divisions It is a second prize. An Aldershot sergeant beat me by two points. Anyway, it is something, because there were oilieers in for it, too."
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1918, Page 4
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