PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Melbourne cable states that Sir W. Irvino has been appointed Lieut.Governor of Victoria. In Tuesday's Manawatu Times appears the death notices of three sons of Mr. lid ward Carr, of Waihao Forks, killed on the 30th of March in the fighting in France. Mr. G. L. Asher retired from the Dunedin staff of the New Zealand Shipping Company at the end of March, after 35 years' service in the employ. Mr- IT. L. Hogg, who lias just resigned the position of overseer to the Moa Road Board, has 'been appointed engineer to the Waitomo County Council. The Ven. Archdeacon Evana returned to New Plymouth yesterday. Until an appointment 13 made he wiit take tlie oversight of the Waitara Parish. A London cablegram states that Lieutenant A- E. Esqsiilant, of the 'New Zealand Artillery, has lieen awarded the Military Cross. Captain H. A. Stratford arrived in Inglewood on Monday night, it is expected he will take up his duties as headmaster of the Central New Plymouth School in July. In the latest hospital report published the following Taranaki names appear:—'Still dangerously. ill, R. Jones (ICaimata). Seriously ill, Lieutenant K. S. Ewing (New Plymouth). Severe case, T. A. Smart (Manaia). Mr. R. ODonnell, of Tongaporutu, has just received a cable from the Minister of Defence informing him that Private Cylton was killed in action on April stli. His. relatives reside in Syd'iiey. The 1 Prime Minister has received advice that his son, Major F. G. Massey, lia3 recovered sufficiently to be moved from Prance to a hospital in England. The bullet has been extracted from the wound, so his complete recovery is assured.—Press Association.

The Victor Harris Memoriom gold medal has been awarded by the Associated Board of the R.A.M. to Miss Dorothy Hughes Johnson, of Wanganui. The medal is donated each year by Madame Harris, of Palmerston, and is awarded to the most promising violinist of the Dominion. Miss Johnson, who is a daughter of Mrs. Hughes Johnson, a harpist of well-known ability, and who has appeared several times in Palmerston, is spoken of as a promising and gifted violinist. The present is the eighth award of the Harris medal. Deep regret is felt in the Waitotara district at the reported death on active service of Private E. J. Power. He was engaged in farming pursuits there prior to joining the Expeditionary Force, and was a young man of great promise. A sad coincidence is that he wa.a reported dead from wounds during the past week, to be subsequently reported wounded. On Saturday, however, official news of his death was received from the Minister of Defence.