PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL .

A Washington message reports I.lmt Senator Stone had a. paralytic stroke in the street anil hi-s condition is serious.

A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Harold Beatichamp has been reappointed chairman of the Bank of New Zealand-

Advice has boon received by Mrs. M. Oninn, of (.lover Street, that her son, Private. I l '. .1. It. (.'rami, has been admitted to hospital in France, suil'eriiig severely with jaundice. The Rev. John Smith, a former Methodist minister of the town, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth. He is now on the list of supernumerary ministers.

Rr. A. Harvey, of Patea and Waverley, has gone into camp again. He served during the Sornme campaign and was invalided home.

Sergeant Trolley, of the New Plymouth police, left for the south yesterday morning on a fortnight's holiday leave. Constable Wroblenski, who has been on leave for several weeks, has returned to duty. News has been received that Private G. K. O'Carroll, who was severely wounded in December last, has been transferred to the discharge department. He will probably return home by the first available transport. Mr Jas. Shaldrick, of the Onelranga branch of the Northern Steamship Co., arrived in New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday, and will supervise the local office during the next fortnight, while Mr. Penman is on holiday leave. Mr. J. J. Dwyer, of the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court staff, has received word that his brother, Corporal Tom Dwyer, who a day or two ago was reported seriously wounded, has died of wounds.

Mrs. H. Shirley, of Oaonui, has received word that her son, Private Norman Shirley, has sustained a severe gunshot wound in the right knee arid that he was admitted to a hospital in England on April 1. Mr. Norman T. Sinclair, son of the. Rev. W A. Sinclair, leaves for camp with the next reinforcements on May 1. Mr. Sinclair gained junior and senior Board of Education scholarships, and after one year at the Auckland Grammar School and four years at the Christchurch Boys' iHigh School gained a junior university scholarship. He secured the first section of his B.A. at eighteen, and is now a student at the Auckland University College. The latest hospital report contains the following Taranaki names: —Dangerously ill, E. L. Hamerton (Patea> and W. B. Williams (Hawera) Seriously ill, Temporary Sergeant J. Adlani (Waitara). Removed from seriously ill list, S. Tarrant (Hawera). Not severe cases: H. P. Keightley (Midhirst), (i. McL. McLeod (Eltharn), A. H. Pollock (New Plymouth), and E. M. Southcombe (Hawera). ,