PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. R. Sheppard, whose nans* appears in tha tallot, has volunteered for active service, and goos into camp on July 17. At yesterday's meeting ol the Twanaki Hospital Board the resignations of Nurses Jemison and lapine were accepted with regret. Lieutenant-Colonel Peerless, Oaptaia Widdowson, and Lieutenant Ansell (attesting officer), of the No. 11 Medical Board, left New Plymouth by the mail train yesterday morningDr. M. H. Watt, district health officer, who has been in New 'Plymouth in conference with local bodies in relation to matters affecing the health o! the district, left for Wftnganui yesterday, and subsequently will return to Wellington. The death is announced of Mr Thomas Capper, who has been resident In Nelson for over 60 years. The late Mr Capper was an enthusiast in the volunteer movement, was a fine an d for years represented the Nelson City Rifles at the New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting in various parts of the Domin' ton,. .. i .... 4, The new title of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe—Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa—; links his name with one of the'most wonderful harbours in the world. Scapa Flow lies within the Orkney Islands, and is go large that the biggest guns can earry out long-range firing in it and not hit the land. Scapa Kow has been frequently referred to in the German press as a base of-the British naval fane* It was the place to which Jellicoe brought his squadrons at the end of July, lfli Scapa was the king-pin in the strategical disposition of the Allied forces.

The friends of Mr. George W. Htrt. Nell, builder and estate agent, will ham with regret of his death, which occurred very suddenly at Wangamri on Tuesday. The deceased gentleman (say* the Chronicle) came down to business as usual on Tuesday, and it was while visiting a property at Wanganui East, in company with a client, that he was overtaken by the fatal seizure. A widow and a family of four (one daughter and three sons) are left to mourn their loss. Captain F- Hartnell, who has just returned from the front, left for Wanganui yesterday. An old identity, in the person of Mr. Martin Irwin, died at New Plymouth o n Monday. He came from Australia in the gold-digging days, over SO years ago, and subsequently joined the Armed Constaibulary, servingjn both the Taranaki and Waikato campaigns. He was stationed at the Whitecliffs„blookfcouae ovei 40 years ago, and afterwards took up land at Awatuna, where he lived till a few dayg before his death. His funeral took place yesterday, many old settlers, some of them former comrades, from various parts of the province paying their last respects to his memory. His wife predeceased him by 39 years, his remains being buried alongside hers in the Bell Block Cemetery. He was Si! years of age. News was, received in Masterton at th« end of last week of the death in Sydney of Mr Sid H. Wickcrson, a pioneer resident of that district, from the effects oi pleurisy. The late Mr Wickerson, who recently visited Masterton with his. wif« and son after a visit to America, resided in Greytown nearly 40 years ago. H« took a keen interest in football, and was secretary of the Wairarapa Rugby Onion for a considerable iwiod, JTe'waj the manager of the first Wairarapa representative team to go on tow. He* was engaged in journalistic work in Masterton for a considerable time, and was also in business as a tobacconist and butcher. He took 'a Keen interest in amateur theatricals, and was a prominent member of the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society. He went >to N*w South Wales a good many years ago, and established a newspaper, which he successfully conducted. In recent years he had been in business in Sydney as a storekeeper.

Amongst the New Zealanders who par. ticipated in the recant naval action at Zeebrugge was Mr. Sydney Fojc, son: of Mr. Louis H- Fox, house steward of the Wellington Hospital. Writing to Ms parents, Mr. Fox, who left New Zealand as a member of the first Motor Boat Patrol, gives some particulars of the fight. "We went up into the canal," he writes, 'to reseue the crews of two ship* that we sank there. Well, there' were only four of us on our ship w&o catae out alive, and I was one of then. It was a very desperate job" The writer refers to one of his |jals, Mr. Jack Batey, who was killed in the engagement. Mr. Batey, who formerly Jived in New Mymouth, leaves a widow. At latest advice, Mr. Fox was chief engineer of the vessel on which he was at the time of the Zeebrugge engagement. An old colonist, Mr. Archibald Wallace, died at Cambridge on Wednesday, at the age of 78 ye-->. He was bom in Ayrshire, Scotland, MO, and in 1842 arrived with his j ,ts in Auckland. Practically the wholb of his life has been devoted to farming pursuits. After residing at East TamsJci for a number of years he shifted "to Pukcmiro in 1870. After selling his property he took up his residence in Cambridge. Mr. Wallace was married twice, his first wife being Miss Jessie Thomson, of East Tamaki, and his second wife, Mlbs Alice Chappel, of London.' There were seven children of the first marriage—Mr. W, T. Wallace, of Manawatu; Mr. R. H. Wallace, of Kansas, U.8.A.; and Mr. A. D. Wallace, of Ormondville; the late Miss Wallace; Mrs. John Bryant, of Papatoetoe; Mrs, Qeorgß Runciman, of Tauwhare; and Mrs. Croxford, of Cambridge. To hold the rank of lietttenant-eolonel at twenty-three years of age, and to have. the Distinguished Service Order, and tha Military Cross, as evidence that his promotion was well won, should be, suffi. cient to gratify the ambition, of mv man of our country (says the Sydney Sun). This is the record of lieutenantColonel Douglas G. Marks, one of Mm born soldiers of Australia, who did their T>lt in the direction of making history 5n l*e red days of the landing at Galljpoli. and i n the evacuation, and are doing it now in .France and in Flanders. He left New South Wales as a secod-lieutenant with the original 13th Battalion, an.l was wounded twjee—onoo dangor6u«i<One of tha fighting officers of the A.ll\ he has been mentioned in despatches ?,v Sir Douglas Hajg and Q»ml Birch™*) more tfcaa once. v» w< British decatattoog, fc# Order r.--the White -of Bena lieutenantColonel Maribi is cut .<* *aa briflhujt young officers of w&tV,*!, eoun**- b proud. Ha Is tha em. Euwjr. jiwj. A7r» M. Marks, of em&W. *fo*iaS,&»