PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The name of Lieutenant B. C, Kirlfy, of Paten, figures among the list of tert cent recipients of the Military Cross.

Constable T. Fahy arrived in Keflf Plymouth last evening, under transfe? from Wellington.

A Wellington message reports th<j' Ho had been in ill-health fnr some tixw, death of Dr. Cahill from heart failiwsj

Mr. 12. Solo, Westown, received cabltf advice on Friday that lug eldest son/ Private Fred Sole, .was adinittted to hos* j pital, England, with a gunshot wound, ig the left hand.

Cabled advice lias been received byj Ms parents that Sergeant William Matthews, of Omata, 10th was wounded and sent to a hospital iij France on October 4.

Mr. J. Young, of Young and lias been advised that his brother, PrM vate William Young, has been woundetf in the right thigh and admitted to lio&< pital in France. Mrs. M. Kineton-Parkes, who hag been visiting New Plymouth, leaves'fenj Hawera to-day, where she will giro iij public address. From Hawera she goej on to Feilding. Mr. C. Goodson, of Hawera, has rqi ceived word'that his eldest son, Lewiij has been wounded during the recent at* tack made by the New Zealanders. IBj is understood that the wound is in tlw| shoulder, Mr. J, Hogg has received information from the Defence Department that hirf son, Private Harry Hogg, of the 28tBj, Mounteds, was admitted, on October % to the 27th General Hospital, Albassitfj Egypt, with severe dysentery. Word has been received that Private P W. Barriball (son of Mt. S. H. Barrtn ball, New Plymouth) was admitted tcj hospital in England on October 7 auf< fering from a gunshot wound in the leflj arm and shoulder.

r A 'Montreal cable states that Lors Shaughnessy has resigned the presidency of the Canadian-Pacific Railway Conn pany, and Sir George Bury the vice-pre-i sidency. The new president is .Mr. K< Beatty. Lord Shaughnessy retains tbej chairmanship of directors. . i The deaths are reported of Mrs Mary Bradley, aged 81, of Wellington; Mr< Dennis Flynn, aged SO, of Paekakarikij] Mrs. Charles Waldegrave, an old resi-i dent of Palmerston North; and Mr. HI- ; 6. Price, late Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor' at Blenheim* Members of St. Mary's vestry, Ba* wera, made a presentation of a safety razor to Mr. Noel Caplen, prior to his leaving for the front. The Rev. C. H> Grant Cowen, in a brief speech, referred to Mr. Caplen's church work as a lajj reader, member of the yeStry, and oj the C.E.M.S., and extended to him best wishes of the vestry and the churchy

Members of the original Taranalct Company will regret to learn of thd death in action of Lieutenant J. MaJriAi Lieutenant Makin left New Zealand early in the war, and was one of the lasfj three New Zealanders on Gallipoli. IJq was twice mentioned in despatches? Both his brothers' enlisted in 1914—s Major L- W. Makin, with the Caua* di&ns, and Gunner W. H. Makin, Maini Body, New Zealand Artillery. Mr. J. Heslop's grandson, Huia Mae kin rell (M.M.), has recently received liisi' commission with the NZ.E.F. T K young fellowjeit the Dominion with thj Main Body as a private in the Hawker's Bay Infantry. At Galbpoli he was promoted to corporal, and was alstjt, twice wounded and invalided home t# New Zealand. Recovering from his iiw juries, he left again with the 7th Rein* forcements, going to France. He won' the Military Medal at the Somme, andf was again wounded in January lasSj Shortly after lie was sent to England tij study for his commission, which has no* been awarded him. While at the traiife ing college, Lieutenant Mackrcll won th«t heavy-weight boxing contest. —Argus., f The many New Plymouth friends qB Lieutenant J. C. Brook willl regret tdj learn that he has died of wounds. Tha late Lieutenant Brook was the eldest eon og Mr, J. C. Brook, headmaster o| Birkdale Schoool. Lieutenant who was practising as a solieitftr in thQ North at the outbreak of the war, en 4 listed with the Main Body, and lefti New Zealand with the rank of corporal; in the loth North Auckland Company.He was twice wounded on Gallipoli, thai first time on the day of the landings Returning after recovering from his ss<w ' ond injury, a gunshot wound in the face, he was among the last of the Auckland Battalion to leave the peninsula upon the evaouation of Anzao. After Considerable service in France he was nominated for a commission in ,the New Jsealand Forces, and returned to New Zealand for his appointment. He left with' a reinforcement draft last, year, Mid RMs employed for some time in instructional work in 'England. Lieutenant Brook was educated at'the Birkdihto School and the Auckland Gramnikr School, holding successively' a Rawlins's Scholarship ami a Senior District Scholarship, At the eiid of 190" lie gained a university entrance 'and commenced the study of law, at the* same time ioining tlie staff of Messrs Buddie, Tiutlton, Parr, and Blomfield. At the end of 1910 he gained his B-A'. degree, .r- next year graduate LLB. After qualifying. he was employed'for some time for Messrs Roy an Nicholson. of New Plymouth, and then commenced independent practice in North Auckland. Lieutenant Brook wa« a! member of the T'nivorsity Hockey Qhlß and of the Auckland Hawing Oiub.,