PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Mr.-Jjj Bernard Shaw will contest the East iai Middlesborough seat. Mr. Fred .Pirani did not return witfbl hw colleagues of tlie press delegatkm.wWqS oamo out in the .Uakura, but remained licfil England a week or two longer in ordor ]|| to prosecute inquiries into odueatjoflal jfl matters. A private wire intimated that 'll Mr. Pirani expects to reach the ]>r«*S minion towards the end of the month, l f having secured his passage on a troop- .« ship. , r j| Amongst recent victims of the ept- 1 demic ve:-Mrs. H. Channings, Wif# of,l the Levin borough engineer; Mr. James Bain, a member of the Port Ahnrlrt (Ka- .1 pier) Fire Brigade; Mr. P. L. McNamara, $ who formerly represented Hawke's Bay, 1 field, and liis sister Kate, $ both at Wellington; Mr. William Bowfe, 1 who was well known' throughout the v ! Wairarapa district; Mr. Arthur W.' V j" Stevenson, assistant executive officer of J the Munitions and Supplies Department, and formerly on tlie Wellington City ■ ' Council staff; Bertha (-29) and Norman i (23) Myers, of Invercargill (brother and "i sistei;), were enthusiastic musicians; Mr. 'l*s R. A. Low, a member of Thfunes Harbor j"> and Hospital Boards; Mr. Thomas G. ,ii Hosting, a solicitor at Messrs James Maloney (a well-known' $ sportsman), Edward H. Hawkden (den- 1 tist), and Samuel "W. Copu (auctioneer) " :r Jf A ™ hft: Sergeant-Major Tlioiww'vl Atkme (D.C.M), Hokitika, vrhp VflU -MljU decoration at GaJUipoli. i *.tr, .. . . ~ ,i