PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Private E. X. Honorc (Maiwia) is re' ported in tlie latest hospital list as removed from the seriously ill list.

A London cablegram otetcs that the King has oommande-J a month's full month's mourning for the ex-Cror.

Lieutenant H. Mackenzie Douglas, ot the firm of Douglas and Dunn, of Waverley, returned to New Zealand a few weeks ago by a hospital ship. Lieutenant Douglas saw a.good deal of figntjn<>, and lias been mentioned in despatches lax "conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty." He was severely wounded in the rig'ht forearm.

The resignation of Archdeacon Gaidar from the charge of All Saints' parish, Ponsonby. has been received by the Anglican Bishop of Archdeacon Calder, who i» in hi* 70th year, i$ resigning on account of health, his resignation taking effect as from October 31. He has been on leave for some ;Unie pa*t, and thc'Rov. Dr. o*Oallaghan; who baa btren relieving him, will remain until a new \\mr is appointed. ... Captain Andrew Donovan, who was a well-known figure in the coastal trade some years ago, died aiMiis residence, Ponsonby, on Monday. Captain Donovan, who was 7<l years of age, arrived in New Zealand in is 64 Ijv the ship Lightning. Shortly afterwards he joined a coasting vessel trading Out of Auckland, and remained in this trade until about 12 years ago, When he retired owing to failing health. Captain Donovan, who was a widower, is survived by three sons and three daughters. '. ~ ; •. Mr.John Bassett died' at his home, South Carterton, recently. For nearly 00 years he had > lived in Wairarapa. Be arrived in Carterton 50 years ago, a young man of 20. When he am} his father ais an <* c ' tlier relatives moved {rom.'Greytowfc .to Carterton, after thereat;flood of 1853, thejwhole region -was. thickjy clothed with forest primeval',' save where, at long intervals, there • W<h',c., what were called "natural clearinga "'such as the Moroa and Taratahi plains. His youngest son has returned wounded (crippled) from the war, and another is There are | three sons alive and: ;tfo daughters, and [there are nine grandchildren.

Theieitli'orCajtVm'Ray James Fitzgeras,',o.£ the Service, is re* po^^," :^P*«in.M# r !*ld Wa 37 years of ag'ej anaV'wa»a ssi,of Mj. W> 0. Pitzger&Jd, oiemi«t, .of 'Vye>iiipgton,'«nd was eji™jite4 si the' Teniae School tm4 Wel> lfngtbn"College. When 'the war broke out,h{i was on the engine-room staff of a steajpejr in African,, and at once went' bo Engknd, where he entered the Imperial Army. Whiie flying on ths Western front, he was taken prisoner, but escaped, after five month*' detention, under exciting circumstances. Re» turning to England, he was urg«d |o un« dertake home service, but, preferring a more exciting life, he ym» gent to,ltaly, where he did more brilliant; work, and gained a bar to, the Military Cross, which he had received for/bravery on the Western front. He fnejn joined ,the British Flying Corps. The, deceased a man of fine physique, and a very popular officer; he was m&tried about, 18 months ago to an English; lady. His brother Maurice is a captain in the Gloucester Regiment, and his stepbrother, Jan, is with th,e Task Corps in France. Mrs. Alexander Stewart, of Elthaw, and Sistter Ivy Ktsgeroldy now «i the staff of a military fcofnital V