PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Sir Wm Weir succeeds Lord Rothermere aa Air Minister. A London cablegram states tUat Mr. John Redmond's estate is valued at £5780. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Mr. John Richard Houlding, author and one of the founders of the New South Wales Alliance. The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, who had to seek re-election in consequence of his appointment as a Cabinet Minister, was returned unopposed. Sergeant Trehey, of the New Ply-< mouth police, who has been on a fortnight's holiday leave, returned to duty on Saturday. Rifleman R. -H. McQueen, formerly on the staff of the Bank of New South Wales, Patea, lias been reported as killed in action on the Western front.

Mr. A. J. Millman (Class D) was the first man in New Plymouth to volunteer for active service in response to the Defence Minister's appeal for men prepared to go into camp almost immediately.

Mr. H. A. Haycock, of Hawera, has received advice that his brother, Rifleman Arthur Haycock, Feilding, was killed in action on April 5. Rifleman Haycock, who was only 24 years of age, enlisted with Lord Liverpool's Own.

One of the Wellington officers whose services have been of appreciable value to the Empire in Palestine is Lieut.Colonel G. G. Powles, son of Mr. C. P. Powles of that city. Lieut.-Colonei Powles, C.M.G., who was on the per* manent staff of the Defence Headquar* ters in Wellington when the war broke out, went away with the Main Body, and, landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula about a month after the commencement of hostilities, he was one of the officers who was with the last force of New Zealanders to leave Gallipoli. Since then he has been Quartermaster-General to the New Zealand mounted forces operating in Egypt and Palestine under Brigadier-General Chaytor. Subsequent to the occupation of Jerusalem he was made a C.M.G.

It is stated (says a writer in the London Daily Sketch) that Mrs. Wm. Leeds has been married to Prince Christopher of Greece. The wedding took place very quietly in Switzerland, where Mrs. Leeds had been staying with her son, who is a very delicate boy. Mrs. Leeds is an enormously wealthy American, well known in Ldhdon society. She recently bought "Kenwood,' 1 the home of the Grand Duke Michael, Prince Christopher is the youngest of King Constantine's brothers and he was-much talked about when'he visited England in May, 1916. He has long been credited with anti-German leanings, for, when the Greek Court began to be divided against itself at the outbreak of the war, he sided with his I brothers against King Constantine, nnd I espoused the cause of the Allies. The [Prince, who was born in 1983, and is, therefore, 30 veers of age,, has seen military service in Salonika.