PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London oalblegram reports that Sir George Alexander, the actor, left a fortune of £90,672. At Ingle wood on .Riday,. Mr- J. M. dimming, vAo is taking tip a position a, Mangere, near Auckland, was presented with a purse of sovereigns. Mr. Lopdell, the Stratford county engineer, was one of the men rejected ot the sitting of the Military Medioal Board at Bawera last week. The name of Sergeant A- S burne (Inglewood) appears among the not severe oases in the latest hospital report. Dr. W. M. Thomson left Hawera yesterday morning to report in camp for duty subsequently with, a hospital ship A large number of friends aaqenifbled it the station to wish the doctor "Good luok." ; / Lance-Corporal Tom JYaser, formerly with the Riverdale and Joll dairy factory companies, was reported missing, fwir one of the entrenching battalions captured some time ago Word hag now been received that he is a prisoner of war, and is reiported 'doing well." The Right Rev James Edward Cowoll Weldon, Dean of Manchester formerly headmaster of (Harrow and Metropolitan of India, has been appointed Dean of Durham, in succession to the Very Rev. Dr Henslcy Henson. The stipend of iho Dean of Manchester is £ISOO, that of the Dean of Durham £3OOO A London message states that Lieutenants J. S. Denton and W. H. Denton, the well-known Northamptonshire twin, cricketers; are reported missing A third brother was wounded in I#l7, and liad his leg amputated. Mr J. Roberts, Gill Street, has received advice that his son, (Private FS- Roberts, is now definitely reported a prisoner oi war in Jennany The locality is not stated, but it is reported fihat Private Roberts is unwounded. Before leaving the Hygienic Bakery, where she has been employed for a number of years, Miss Roberts was presented by her fellow-employees with a beautiful afternoon tea stand, and (by Mr. and Mrs Pindlay with a dainty silver chain purse-bag, in appreciation of her long ami valued service. Captain Charles Orr Walker, military representative with the First Wellington Military Service Board, is still suffering from the effects of a slight attack of pleurisy, and the Auckland Medioal Board has granted hjni an extra mosth's leave.' At last nights meeting of the Now Plymouth Borough Council, reference was made by Or. Collis to the brave action of the'late Mr. A. H. Amibury, in hie attemp o save tho life of Mr. W. E. Gourlay, in connection with tho accident which occurred at Mount Egmont on June 3. Ct. CqlHs said ho thought the matter of having his action fittingly recognised came witliin tho province of the council. He said that those wJio saw Mr Amlbury's action understood fully that, in attempting to save the life of Mr Gourlay, he had taken a risk in which he, as an experiojieed mountaineer, mmsi hftvo known ho had but a small ohanee of succeeding Nevertholess, he had deliberately taken tha,t, risk, and the fact that he had failed did not in any sense lessen the merit of his action. He moved that steps ho jaken. by the Mayor to (bring the matter under the notice of the Royal Humane Soolety (Now Zealand branch), with a view to having the notion fittingly recognisedThe motion wtts seconded by Cr. Dear* and earned unanJn»u«ly.