PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain William Waller, harbormaster 5 at New Plymouth, is at present indisposed through an attack of influenza. A New York cablegram reports thai? Captain Bruee Baimsfather has returns* nd to England owing to ill-health. A Capetown cable states that they South African cricketer Gordon Whit* lias succumbed to wounds in Palestine. '.

A London cable reports the death ofi Miss Agnes Weston, the founder of the? Royal Sailors' Rests at Portsmouth.andi Devon port.

Mrs E. A. O'Donnell has receive&flt3Efijj vice tihat her son, Corporal H. D. O'Don-a nell, M.M., has had his left leg smpn-a tated, and was transferred to hospital' in England on October 18th.

Mr. W. Jenkinson has received JfflHii vice that his son, Private W. TL JenkuKJ son {Bth Reinforcement), las fceerfj wounded in the abdomen, and was mitted to hospital in England on Octo-i ber 16- Private Jenkinson was- jaeitip ously wounded at Messines.

Mrs. 13. A. O'Donnell, New Hymonffijj has now been advised that her son, Co?-*! poral H. D. O'Donnell, lIM., reported wounded, has now had his left leg anft) putated, and has been transferred pital in England. ',

Word has been received that Corporal! 0. P. Lealand, of New Plymouth, hatf been admitted to hospital in from Prance, suffering from pleurisy. Rifleman L. Hamerton and Private ¥j. N. Johnston, of Patea, who had just ie+ turned from Prance, were given a warn?' welcome home on Wednesday evening. • Mr. B. Wells, of Mangorei, has re> oeived information that his son, Norman, was wounded in the right leg oiij/ October 8, and is ndw in hospital 3k France.

The Rev. J. Cocker, associate editdwsf]| the New Zealand Methodist Times, is B*frj !ng invited to talce up the work of thes Masierton Methodist Church early maxjj'i year. {

The Rev. diaries Connor, of NapierJiS ftas been appointed to the charge of thaS Opunake Presbyterian; Church. Mrs. Connor 13 a daughter of the celebrated) Professor Blackie, of Edinburgh. 1 ;

Cabled advice was received by Mr. M. Jones, of New Plymouth, that* Ms third son, Corporal F. P. (Pat) Jones,. was killed in action on October 8. Be-f fore enlisting, Corporal Jones . was in? the insurance department of Mr. New* ton King. He sailed with the 33rd Bjm enforcements. He was a Bright and promising lad, and his early death willvjb# deplored by all who knew him. The late Sergeant Forsyth, V.CV*dI! Wellington, was at the- time of his deatU about 27 years of age. Joining fhef Engineers (Main Body) at he was posted to the Field Troop, under Captain Shearer. He saw service ini Egypt and Gallipoli, and was afterwards invalided to England. He is describedby a fellow-soldier as having been a) quiet, retiring sort of chap, and onei who always did his work His mother resides in Wellington.

The Rev. Mother Mary Camillua die 4 at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, oa Monday morning, at the age of 86. She had been a member of the Order of tha Sisters of Mercy for 63 years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Heysroiij of DuMin. Mother CamiUus, who entered the Order as a novice at CarloWj County Leinster, in 1853, arrived in Auckland in 1857, and took her vows as. b, professed nun on November 2 of th 4 some year. Some time later she estate Hshed a branch of the Order in WeDing* ton, in conjunction with the late Mother Bernard, who had spent two years at the Military Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War. After the work r* Wellington had been, ■firmly estsSXl&afy Mother Bernard and (Mother Caarilhß re* turned to Auckland. Mother Camfllu* had been connected with the work of tag Sisters of Mercy in Auckland ever since.The death is reported of Mr. William Charles Badden, indent agent and importer, of Wellington, who was found, dead in his hed on Thursday. Mr. den, who was a single man, had tot, many years been associated with byterian Church work. Mr. Badden, whet was very quiet and unostentatious in. manner, was a great worker in the causa of Christianity. When a young man and & member of St. John's congregation, ha felt the call so strongly that he volunteered for missionary work in India, and worked in that field of Christian endeavor for Ave or six years, when his ftealth demanded a change, and he returned to New Zealand. Mr. Badden, who was 48 years of age, gained business pxperience in Wellington as a young man with the firm of W. M. Bannatyne and Co., and on his return to New Zealand went into business as an importer of goods,'including some special lines from India- He had always been actively associated with the work of the Y.M C.A. in. Wellington. He was musically inclined, and a* a pianist and oiv ganist his services were always in demand in connection with his Y.M.O.A. and other activities.

Mr. E. S. Rutherford (Stratford) lias received a cable stating that his youngest brother, Captain Wyville Rutherford (M.C.), is seripusly ill with pneumonia in the Eskavin Hospital, Mesopotamia. Captain Rutherford left with the Main Body, and was present at the first landing at Gallipoli, and afterwards served in Egypt and France, gaining the Military Cross at Messines;. . he was one of four officers ap* pointed to take paj't.in a spepial expedition under General, ,rninsteryjilf>, was despatched by ..the Britisij.Goyemment to assist the Armenians at on the Caspian Sea- The expedition had a most adventurous journeyy through Persia and Northern Armenia) and successfully readied Baku, but owing to the dtfection of the Armenians the, town waj afterwards captured by the Turks. Nothing further has since been heard oi the fate of the expedition, although M was generally believed tliat the Russian Fleet bad evacuated the British fnrcis, which Amounted to some 8000 men. The report received by Mr. Rutherford ycs-teHtiv leads one to sup■Kfc that r!nn»rnl nnnsterville's force !in« =uccppdo(l in (fitting its way back to Mesopotamia.—Post.