PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

An Auckland wire records the death of Dr. Peter McNab. ( A Wellington press message received last night states that Lieutenant Jack, assistant commandant at Somes Island, and Dr. Holmes, had died of influenza that day.

Corporal David Lionel Teed, son of Mr. S. Teed, New PJymouUi, who has been doing dispensing workat the Kotorua Sanatorium, is no wat the New Ply. mouth Hospital, assisting in the dispensing work, the dispenser being down with influenza.

Mrs. Gertrude Condon, who, has been staying with Mr. J. IV. Stubbs since her husband went into camp, received the sad news of his death from bronchial pneumonia, which occurred at Featherstoit on Thursday morning (g a y s the Eltliam Argus). The news came as a decided shock to Airs. Condon, as the notification was only received yesterdny that her husband died'on Thursday, anil she had not even been informed that.ihe was in hospital or in ill-health. ' '

The sudden death of Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh (Wellington South), leader of the ! Parliamentary Labor group, came : shock to the House (writes our correspondent). Mr. Hindwarsh took part in the early work of the session, and until last Monday morning it was not known that his attack of influenza had taken a serious turn. About ten.menjr ■hers of the House are down with th,9 epidemic at present, and the staffs are being rapidly depleted in all directions. Hector Gray, the well-known iockey, met with a serious accident in the Fendalton Handicap at Riccarton on Saturday. He was riding Good Day, and as the result of a collision with two other; horses he sustained a fracture of the hip.