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PERSONAL.

Captain W. IT. Hawkins, of tlie Headquarters Staff, is in New Plymouth for ii. few days.

A London cable states that Captain C 0. P- Tanner, of Royal Garrison Artillery, formerly ol Wellington, died aboard a ship.

Second-Lieutenant M. R. Stewart, son of Mr. J. R. Stewart, of Manaia, has been again wounded. A London cable states that it is reported Lord French is resigning the Vice-royalty of Ireland. Mews has been received that Lieutenant 11. Thompson, of Inglewood. who left with the 31st Reinforcements, has been promoted quartermaster-captain.

Word has been received that Private Robert M. Glermy has been wounded whilst fighting in France. Private Glennv has a farm on Manaia Road.

Private W Signal, only son of Mr. Samuel Signal, of Kaponga, has been killed in action. Private Signal left with the 26th Specialists, and was only 21 years of age. A London correspondent, writing on August 13, says that Lieutenant. It. Woodhouse (New Plymouth), of the Machine-gun Corps, is in camp oil Salisbury Plain. At the annual meeting of the Taranalw A and P Society, held on Saturday afternoon, a motion of regret at the death of the late Mr. H J. H. Okey and sympathy with his relatives was carried in the customary manner. Mr. and Mrs. IT. E Lloyd, of Manaia, have received a telegram from the Defence Department stating that a cablegram has been received from PrivateTrevor Lloyd, stating that he had been wounded and is now a prisoner of war in Germany Private Lloyd was previously posted as missing from. August SO last.

Advice received in Hawera reports the death at New York of Mrs. T- G. Russell, wife of the well-known Christcaurcli solicitor, from pneumonia, following upon the Spanish influenza. The late Mrs. Russell was the only daughter oi Major (Dr ) Pearee-Baldwin, formerly of Raratonga, hut now with the New Zealand medical forces. Mr. and Mrs. Russell were on a visit to America.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland announces the death o£ the Rev. George Buv^ess,, Congregational minister. The deceased, who was a. native of England, was for some years minister at the Bcresford Street Cllurchj Auckland, and afterwards minister at the Congregational Church; .Since leo/ving there he had lived in retirement on a farm near Auckland. He was a man of considerable ability, and took o great /interest in the application of Christianity and v .ristian principles. to ! social life. He leaves a widow and two sons and a daughter. One of his sons is Major Burgess, of the New Zealhnd Expeditionary Forces, who lias dcvie gallant service at the front.

Mrs. A. G. Bennett, of Manaia, has received word of the d: j ath from malaria in Palestine, of her .brother, Trooper Leslie Stevens, son of Mr. Robert Stevens, of Damicvirke. Trooper Stevens, who left New Zealand with, the Main Body, was until recently sergeant in charge of a machine-gun section, from which, position '.:e resigned in order to join the mounted men, whom he was with at the time of his death. He went through the Gallipoli campaign and tho long series of engagements- in Palestine, and had been previously wounded. Trooper Stevens was one of; the Frazer; MeTCenzie-Stevens clan, of Rangitikei, who have sent more men to the front' during the war than any other elan ill <he Dominion, and his death from malaria, after fighting for four years, is partieularly sad.—'Witness. The Rev, William Bullock, who lias been appointed organising secretary of the Church of England Men's Society in New Zealand, is expected in the Dominion at the beginning of January. In his early days- he lived on the border of a colliery district, and he became a, mining surveyor's assistant, intending to go through the qualifying tests for a surveyor. In the meantime, ho started studying for Holy Orders, and eventually became a lay worker, also a member of the C.E.M.S. He studied theology for three years at" King's Colllege, London, and during that period he was secretary to the college branch of the Students' Christian Union, and at the end of tho p criod won an Honors A.K.G. He was ordained deacon of All Saints', Chatham, and his first curacy was at the. same church. The parish was n now one of 8000 people,, mostly soldiers, sailors, and dockyard laborers, and hero Mr. Bullock labored foil 15 months, after which he went to Si John's, Bromley. Last year Mr. Bullock volunteered, and was accepted.fo£ hnt, work at the front, and was sent to France by the Church Army- He was soon made manager of' one of the huts in the forward area that, was well under shell-fire. He was also put in charge of troops as an unofficial padre*. During this time lie won tho respect and effection of the men, and great regret was expressed when, through aw accident to his knee at football, he was forced to return to. England

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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1918, Page 4

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PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1918, Page 4

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