PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. A.Wllkinaon. M.P. for itgmont. is down with influenza in Wellington, but is recovering. Private Maurice J. Lawn, son of Mr. J. Lawn, of Ngariki Road, Rahotu, died at Featherston Camp on Monday last of bronchopneumonia, following iniflnmiM Tie condition of Mr. Newton Tffag yesterday was nrnth improved. He has had a severe bout of the mwvaiflng illness. Mr. G. H. Redwood. the well-known brewer, of Woodvffle, has died-at Gi»borne, having been a victim of the prevailing epidemic. ' Mr. R. J. Deare. New Plymouth, has received word that Mra. Dean's brother. Private J. Martin, died is camp on Thursday. Mr. Frank Jenkins, late of has been critically ill from influenza in Auckland. His father. Mr. W. N. Jenkiss, is at present in Auckland with him. Mr._ Evan McCormick, a well-known and highly-respected barrister and solicitor of Auckland, died on Friday morning from pneumonia, following influenza, at the age of 36 years. Mr. McCormick was a son of Mr. J. McConnkk. barrister, of tlhat city. News was received in New Plymouth yesterday of the death at Feathergton Military Oamp, from bronchial-pneumo-nia, of Trooper fiiwndtt Stanley Russell, youngest son of the late W. J. Russell. Deceased, -mho was on the New Plymouth staff of Messrs Archibald Clark and Sons, was originally in the CI Camp, from whidh he passed into the A Camp, being attached to the Moonteds. The funeral will take place at Featherston to-day. The many, friends of Corporal J. A. Howden will be glad to see that he has been awarded the Military M«inl Corporal Howden enlisted in New P!y>mouth and left with the 9£h Reinforcements. He is a signaller in the Ist Canterbury Company, in which he was, and doubtless still is, very popular with ail Corporal Howden. besides being a good soldier, is a sport of the first order, and is well-known in Taranaki racing circles. Miss Mabel Whish&w, who died last week in the camp at Featherston, where she had been engaged in nursing work amongst the soldiers, was engaged in nursing before the war in the Dannevirke district, and she immediately volunteered and did much useful work in the camps, being particularly helpful in nursing cases of spinal meningitis, for which sho was thanked by Si? James Allen, Minister for Defence. Whan the influenza epidemic broke out she assisted in fighting the disease, but unfortunately became herself one of the victims. The latest casualty list records tfiie death, from sickness, of Private W. K. Le Fleming, eldest son of Mr. W. H. Le Fleming, of Otakeho. The deceased enlisted over two years ago, but met with an accident owing to a horse falling with him. But he got away with the 41st Reinforcements, after three previous attempts to do so. He was a farmer at Otakelho. a worthy son of a family held in high esteem throughout the district, with whom there mil be genera) sympathy.