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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Chrissie Gurry, daughter of Mr. Wm, Curry, of Wanganui, has been admitted at Wellington as a solicitor. A London cable states that the Press Bureau reports a viscountcy having been conferred on Lord Wimborne.

The latest hospital report contains the following Taranaki names:—Seriously ill, Sergeant M. W. Beattie (Pihama) and J. W. McCracken (Stratford). Not severe cases, H. G. Farmer (Eltham) and E. Mcl. Wilson (Hawera). Among the men who returned to Taranaki on Saturday night was Sergeant Koy Corkill, of Pihama, who is the second man from the group to return with the D.C.M.

Mr. W. T. Luxton, eldest son of Mr. T. Luxton, of Waitara, who has been accepted for the Plying Corps, leaves for Auckland to-morrow night to join the flying school at Kohimarama. Mrs. C. V. Ekdahl, of Urenui, has received a cable stating that her son, Private Carl. J. Ekdahl, of the 15th Reinforcements,' was wounded on 7th May and admitted to hospital in England suffering from wounds in the head. Mrs. Armstrong has been advised that her son, Corporal E. Armstrong, has been severely wounded in the leg and arm, and is in the Convalescent Hospital at Hornchurch.

Mr. H. J. Pagni, consular agent foi Italy, arrived by the mail train on Saturday night. Mr. Pagni, who is secretary to the Auckland Licensed Victuallers' Association, is here in connection with the hotel employees' dispute to be heard before the Conciliation Court to-day.

Mr. W. H. Rose, of Dunedin, arrived in New Plymouth by Saturday night's mail train. He'has voluntarily undertaken, on behalf of the General Assembly, at his own expense, a canvass of the (Presbyterian churches in the interests of the fund for the aged and infirm ministers, and widows and orphans of deceased ministers, and Mr. Rose is at present in New Plymouth in connection with the appeal to the local church.

Private Victor Grayson, Canterbury Infantry, the widely-known ex-Social-ist M.'P. of the English Parliament, writ, signalised his visit to New Zealand by joining the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has now received his discharge as medically unfit, Btates the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. Mr Grayson, who is by profession a journalist, has not had an idle pen during his service with the New Zealanders, and a number of his articles descriptive of life with them have appeared at intervals in the Daily Mail.