PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Blake Mason, one of New Zealand's strongest chess players, has died of influenza at Hastings aged 35. A Press telegram states that the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr. J. J. Clark) was yesterday married' to Miss Joy Mount.

An Invercargill message Btates that among the influenza victims: is MrThomas W. Baxter, president of the South Island Dairy Asaooiation, aged 51. A Paris cablegram reports the death of Edmond Rostand, the dramatist, c)f pneumonia. His best-known play in English-speaking countries is "Ohantecler."

Mr. F. Andrews, Smart Road, has received word that his son Ronald has been released from Germany, where he was a prisoner of war, and arrived in Dover on November 28, The friends of Mr. Stanley Paul, eon of Mrs. J. Paul, of New Plymouth, whelms been down with pneumonia in Wei-' lington, will be pleased to learn that he is about again.

Captain J. B. Rainey, marine superintendent of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, well known in New Plymouth and Waitara, has resumed duty after his recent severe attack of influenza.

■ News was. received in Mastertpn on Saturday of. the death of Mr. Len Riebards, fourth spn of the late Mr. S. X Richards, of Masterton, and brother of Mr. E. Richards. The deceased, ■who was a chemist by profession, was about 4Q years of age. The death occurred at the New Ply? mouth Hospital last evening of Mrs. F. M. Penwarden, wife of Mr. E. H. Penwarden, manager of the Rugby Road cheese factory. Deceased, who was the eldest daughter of Mr. J. T. White, of this town, had been ill for some time. Sympathy will be felt for her husband and relatives in their bereavement. Two sisters of the Order of St. Joseph died in the Auckland province lately through influenza. Sister Mary Teresa, while visiting the homes of the afflicted in Grey Lynn, contracted 'influenza, which was followed by pneumonia, and caused her death. The second victim was Sister Mary Lorenzo, who died at Matat% Bay of Plenty, where she had been laboring for several years past. Four members of the First New Zealand Contingent which fought in South Africa have died from influenza. Their names are: Major W. C. Morrison, N.Z. S.C, General Staff officer, Canterbury Military District; Mr. James Thorpe, Hawke's Bay, employed in the Public Work* Department; Mr. T. Casey, son of the late Mr. Maurice Casey, of Auckland; and Mr. R. S. Young, of Ohau. Mr. Young was rather severely injured as the result of Mb service in South Africa, and never entirely recovered.