PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Morton, of Timaru, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth.

A New York cable states that Charli( Chaplin has been drafted, and joins tha army in June.

Captain J. B, Hine, MJP„ reports at. Fcatherston Camp for duty on tie 24th. inst ' ' •

Private Fred Hawke, of New Ply< mouth, has sustained a wound in the el< bow, according to a wire received yester* day by his father, Mr. C. 0. Hawke. The Rev. A. T. B. Page lias been ap< pointed vicar of St. Mary's parish, WeH lington, and is understood to be leaving. Manaia towards the end of the present month.—Witness.

A letter just received, from Private John Franklin, an old Manaia boy, whose injuries were of a severe description, including the loss of a leg, says he expects soon to be leaving England for home. The engagement is announced/of Dr. Elizabeth Macdonaid, Medical Inspector of Schools, Auckland, to Dr. Robert Bryson, of Levin. The marriage will take place shortly. The New Plymouth High School Board has appointed Mr. A. Morton to the vacancy on the Board caused by the resignation of Mr. T. G. Hirst, who was recently transferred to Invercargill.

Lieut. H. W. Nixon, who was wounded oil March 30, is a son of the Rev. John Nixon of Rotorua. Lieut. Nixon was at' one time in the employ of the New; Plymouth branch of the Bank of New. South Wales. He subsequently took up the profession of journalism, and was, at the time of his enlistment, occupying the. position of editor of the Christchurch; Star.

The Press records the de&th. of Mr. William Hazlehurst which took place at the Patea Hospital on Sunday night, after a short illness. The deceased was well known in the Waverley district for many years, ( where he was engaged in farming pursuits. He was a man of. sterling character and very highly re* spected -by a large circle of friends. .

The death occurred suddenly on Monday morning of Mr. Jeremiah Sheahan, of Whenuakura, who "had been farming in! the district for close on forty years. De-| cesed, who was 77 years of age, and always enjoyed splendid health, leaves' a family of six sons and three daughters.! His wife predeceased him by 8 years. The members of the family are Messrs J. Sheahan (Stratford), Dan (Te Kuiti), Jack (Ohangai), Tom (with the forces in Egypt), Con (at home), and Mesdamea J. Sullivan (Matapu), S. Gower (Whenuakura), and Johnson (Waverley).—Star.

An old pettier oi Te Roti passed away on Saturday in the parson of Mrs. Stuart, mother of Mr. C. Stuart. Mrsj Stuart was bom in Cornwall ninety-aix years ago, and as a girl went to Canada, where she was married and lived for about forty years. With her husband and family she came to New Zealand in 1877, and 'after a year at Normanby, settled in Te Roti, where she. had lived ever since that time. Her husband pre-de-ccascd her some twenty-three years— Star. A correspondent writes to the Post: —"Wc hear'of many patriotic families in New Zealand that deserve credit, one worth mentioning being the Luks family, of Ohingaiti, Main Trunk line. Six sons, all volunteers, went to the war, The three youngest bright, intelligent youths—have been killed, and the three eldest wounded and back in the firing line. The only daughter's young husband, the father of two children, has also paid the supreme sacrifice. Surely a proud record for an invalid mother, who finds time to write and send comforts to other mothers' boys."

The latest hospital report contains the following Taranaki names: —Dangerously ill: D. R. Newell (New Plymouth). Still dangerously ill: E. P. Blanehard (New Plymouth). Seriously ill: T. Parker (Otakeho). Removed from seriously ill list: C. H. Neilson (Manaia). Severe cases: R. Jennings (Hawera), G. B. Knowles (Tariki), J. Marshall (Patea). Not severe eases: E. J. Allen, W. A. Free and D. J. Taylor (Waitara), E. Bidwell and F. C. Hawke (New Plymouth), S. H. Brown (Hawera), H. L. Coleman (Tnglewood), Corporal R. W. C. Guppy (Midhirst), N. Hunger (Patea), \V. E. Jones, D. McQueen, and W. Seabright (Stratford), L, M. Lepper (Urenui), J. Rooney (Whangamomoua), and J. Westford (Eltham).