PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

• The death, through wounds, in ■of' John Davidson, of Manaia, is reported.? Mr. P. C. Webb, M.P., who has. recently been ailing considerably, has been> removed from the prison camp to the? hospital at Rotorua.—-Pres3 Association. Mr. D. Scott, of Kapuni, has received a cable stating that his son—Private E. Scott —is wounded again, this time iff; the face. This is the second wound re-« eeived in six weeks.

A Wellington message states that J.s G. Mackenzie, curator of the Oamaro" public gardens, has been appointed by* the City Council director of the paries, and reserves in Wellington.—Press Association.

Dr. M- R. Neligan,, rector of ford*. Northumberland, and formerly Anglican. Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, has taken a chaplain's commission for episcopal outies with the New Zealand-Ex-peditionary 'Fore*. ; Cable advice has been received by Mr, Halliwell, of Hawera, that nephew—Lieutenant Arnold Thomson—• who was reported wounded and danger* ously ill, has succumbed to his wounds.' He had been on active service since the* beginning of the war. Mr. Pen Boyd, who goes into campy next week, was entertained by a man* ber of fellow commercial travellers at* the White Hart Hotel on Thursday night. Mrs. Boyd was presented with a handbag and a purse containing 40 sovereigns. Little Miss Boyd received a crescent brooch set with ovaline, and Mr. Boyd was the recipient of a wristlet watch.

Dr- iFKillop, from the Scadifi* Mental Hospital, has assumed charge of thai Kelson Mental Hospital, Dr. Hassell, who has been in charge for some time, returning to Porirua. Dr. Jeffreys, for' mer medical superintendent at Nelson, is at Seacliff, where he will remain till the return to New Zealand of Dr.; Trilby King. At Stratford on Thursday evening Dr. Paget, who is about to join the military forces, was entertained by the people of the town and district, and presented with a wristlet watch, a pair of field glasses and an autograph album, whilst the ladies presented the doctor with a silver salver. A wristlet watch was also pre* sented to Mrs. Paget, Highly eulogistic references were made to the services ho had rendered the people during the last twenty-five years, and the hope expressed that he would be spared to return to Stratford after the war.

The late Rev. A. R. Gordon, M.A., the news of whose death from wounds was received on Monday, was second minister of the Dundas Street Methodist circuit, Dunedin, prior to enlisting in the 7th Reinforcements as a privata About ,5011? months ago he recced s> lieutenant's commission. He was educated at the Otago Boys' High School, and at ftc Otago Auckland University Colleges. Prior to entering the Methodist Theological College at Auckland, Im was one of the staff of Messrs Adams Bros., solicitor*; Dunedin. After two years of theological training, ho "was received as a minister on probation, and appointed to Dunedin. Hia brother, Sergeant L. G. Gordon, who> has gained the Military Medal, is at present at the Officers' Training College at Oxford. The late Lieutenant Gordon's father resides at Dunedin-

The late Lord Forrest, explorer and statesman, was better known as Sir John Forrest. He was born in West Australia in 1847, and educated at Bishop's School, Perth. In 1865 he entered the Survey Department of West Australia, and in 1869 was selected to command an exploring expedition into the interior in search of the remains of Dr. 'Leichhardt. In IS7O he commanded an exploring expedition from Perth, to Adelaide, and in 1874 was in charge of an expedition from Champion Bay, on the West Coast. In 1576 he was. appointed Deputy Surveyor-General of West Australia, and subsequently held the position of Acting-Commissioner of prown Lands. In 1890 he entered the Legislative Council for Banbury, and became first (Premier and Treasurer for West Australia under responsible Government Ho entered the Federal Parliament in 1001, and he,ld varipus portfolios, including "that of Minister for Defence, MOl-3; Minister for Home Affairs, 1903-4; Treasurer, 1905-7, 1009-10, and lffiS-14. He was the great-' est advocate of the East-West Railway, now completed. Recently he was made a. peer, being the first Australian to receive that title. Lord Forrest was on his way horns to England, where it was his intention to take a seat in the House of Lords. He had been in indifferent health of late.