PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir. J. 11. Quilliam left for Peildlng yesterday morning, whar« be will .btt staying for a week or two.

At midnight, (Dr. Walker reported: from the Hospital that the condition of Mr. George Young (Mayor of Inglewood) was somewhat tetter.

The Veit. Archdeacon Evaius received word on Wednesday that his daughter, who is nursing in the Hamilton Hospital, had contracted the disease and was seriously ill.

Drs. Fookes and McCleland were both about yesterday, liaving recovered sufii-. niently to enable them to render much ; needed assistance to their medical confreres in fighting the epidemic. Wo bav.e been askad to .lorivei & r O . port tl at Mr. riiomud Kuowler*, ViMusue of the Breakwater Hotnl, had been taken to the Hospita;, sufferimj from influenza. As a matter, of fact, although he lias a slight cold, lie is 'n good health.

The Rev. Father Kincaid, S.M., of Taihape, has succumbed to the influenza epidemic, and his assistant, the Eev Father Burgin, S.M., is .suffering from the same complaint. Toe Rev,. Father Mclu, of Otaki, the Eev. Father Guinane, of Ohakune, and the Rev, Father Kimbeli and'M. Devoy, of Wellington, are also on the sick register.

Mr. A- £. Smith, local secretary of the Y.M.C.A., who had been ailing lor some days, died on Wednesday. Be leaves a widow and two children. He was appointed secretary to the'T.M.CA. about three years ago, in succession to Mr. A. Vai-ney, who leffto engage in war work, Tiio manager of Messrs Pike and Walters' mineral water factory at Inglewood (Mr Bert Brown I, succumbed" to the apidemic yesterday. Ho was one of the straightesc and h.*ss of ?nsn, employers speak in tSS" highest terms of his integrity and business ability. There -died at the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday from pneumonia:—Mrs. Grace Francis, of New Plymouth, aged 37 years; Mrs. Moorcook, of New Plymouth, aged 22 years.: James Wylie, "of New Plymouth, 1? years; B. Brown, Inglewood, 35 years; Mrs. E. Mcßeth, Egmont Village, aped 32; A, Coldwell, Inglewood, aged 36; Atua Skipper, a Maori girl, Mangorei Road, aged 13. The deaths are reported of Mrs. Baldwin, of Okaiawa; Mrs. W- Lister, of Sutherland Road, Manaia, '27 years of age, whose husband is in camp; Mr, Harold II Whitehead, storekeeper, Kapuni, aged 33 yeara (formerly of IJpw Plymouth rtnrl Inglewood), leaving a wife and threa children; and Morefiu Pera, at the Okaiawa Pah. An old Auckland resident, Mr Richard Dignan, died oiV Monday, aged Ci years. Mr. Dignan, who liad been ill for six months, was the fifth son of the latu Hon. Patrick Dignan. Deceased was educated by the'late Mr. Kidd At Auckland College, and tfaa also a Grammar School too/. Ho entered tho Colonial Secretary's office, and was ActingCollector of Customs at Oamaru and Wellington, also Chief Clerk at Auckland. He had been 34 years in the Customs Department, and retired over 20 years ago, having lived privately ever since. 'Deceased is survived by his wife.

Sergeant H, J Laurent. winner of fie coveted V.C., whoso decoration was reported, the other day, ia a son of Mr J. Laurent, of I-lawera, and grandson of Mr R. M. D. St. Laurent, of Auckland, who ia still alive at the great age of 03 years. Whtn Übo old gentleman's grandson enlisted he said to him, "I am going to live to seo mv country free." He liaß not only dor.e that, but has the honor to be the grandfather of a winner of the Y.C. The name "Laurens" Ilea been Anglicised to "Laurent" by the second and third generation. Sergerjit I.ailrent left with the oth Reinforcements. There are (says the Auck-" land Star) five grandsons of Mr Laurentat t'aa front.—Messrs L, Laurent, who went witlii tha Main Body; H. J. Laurent, V.C.; Corporal B, H. Laurent, Lewis Gun instructor, Sling Camp; and Mr E. A. Laurent, of KltUam, who is at present boino on leave.

The death of Dr, Mary Dowling at Hawera yesterday came as a great How to tho whole of Taranaki, jU was known that she critically ill, bu; hope was entertained riftht up to thn last that she would bs preserved to carry on her life of asofulnusii. It was, however, not to bo. Deceased contracted tho disease whilst ministering to taa tick, ai)d "carried on" when she ought herself to have been in bed. Hera was a promising life. A daughter of Mrs. Fowling, mistress for many years of the West End School, alio' early In lifo showed great ability, fijhe won a Taranaki scholarship and proceeded, to Victoria College, where, after graduation, slw took up the medical course at tha Dunedhi University. She wao very successful in all hej examinations, winning scholaraaip after scholarship, taking amongst thein a New Zealand research scholarship that entitled her to a three years' course at Home. She was waiting the end of the war to take advantage of the scholarship; and some time ago decided to commence practice in H&wera, where her work gained for her golden opinions. She was only .years of age- Her mother is a victim of influenza, anil was unable to sse her' before, tho end came. TT<>r brother, who is practising as a chemist in Hawera, is al3o down with tho disease. T* tho "sorrowing is other and family the sincere sympathy of many friends wall be extended in their great losb,

Jfe. J. H. Air.slro died at the Hospital on Tharsday night of. pnemrioiiiu.. lie was a very old resident of New Plymouth, liavipg been a compositor on the local.papers. For a, fojf,-years he was in Inaia, where lie was employed on a paper upon whose staff was ttndyard Kiplmgi In his ' younger days ho was an amateur aetor of considerable ability and when the loon technical School was established, he, for a short'.{fine, conducted a class of instruction in elocution. 'He was a member of the original Star Minstrels, in which he was | '•Bonos. - ' with the. late Mr. Walter j Morey in the other corner as "Tambo," ahd the late Mr, .Tames Paul was "Massa Johnson." When some weeks ago a new Star Minstrel troupe was organised and gave a concert for the Tied Cross, MrAinslie undertook the direction. He has been in indifferent health for a very long time, and when the influenza attacked him it was Teared he would not be able to fight it off. Mrs, Ainslie, who was formerly Mrs, 'Tierridge, is also in the Hospital seriously ill.