PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

oeygeant i. Freudergact, of the Auek.and Battalion, has rejewod a wJ , to his Military Medal. If Inspector. C. W, Hendry, of tea ganui Police District, arrived in Jfawitf Plymouth last night T« I S the victims of the pneumfalili scourge at "Masterton was Mk, fotiiifl* j| Williams, who was the second dattj&e)r| M Mrs. Jane Trigger, of New PlyAqtjj&JS Her husband was a member of the rttttf- Js of the Wairarapa Daily Times. 1 •Mrs Jessie William-:, second daugkl&Jj , of Mrs J. Trigger, of New Plymouth?! i diad at Masterton from monia on Tuesday last. Mr J. Wiljt'll liams is a member of the staff of . Wairarapa Daily Times. • , ' Mrs. J. A- Bridgeinan, Weslowa, received advice that her son, Prrote- lifeif Langley, who went away with the Wlfi-S Reinforcemeuts and was wounded ffttt im ■ yeav ago, is returning toNewZealand ih-1 ' Draft No. 201, due to arrive in WeUajJif^ > ton this week. ( .•'•qjl \ Signor Lucien CeEarom, Jite of ; Oapelli Conoert Company, who has Jbe®|| laid up for three weeks at. with a severe attack of influenza, completely recovered hie health, . Hii 'ftyffj f tmi'ih now to settle- plerm'an-jfsliy jjrs| Wellington, and to accept l Engagements.... i Mr. J. X; Ganflin, of:Xe* Flynfoutijj'jl • and, formerly of Kai'pokoniii, jijs. «?■« • ceivgd.the sad news of the deaf? tf Wfe.-a i sqn-m-law, Mr. W. J Franefai, o(t ■ set, Fngland. His .wif-j and two cMdrejt|| ■ are left to mourn their loss, fc|| ; Mr. W. M. Dought/, New Plyriav.ilft'if 1 iind. his son, Mr. Fred Doughty, mesrf 1 pdssungars for Wellington ye.» erda»"| 1 At a semi-privato function at 'Ji>Verife ' ment House this afternoon, his EiceV 3 ' lon3~ the Governor-General will f>»Wen%| Mr. Doughty, sen-, with tho Milttarjpi Cross won lfy his son, the late Lteutea» . ant Ralph Doughty. 1 ... 1 ;<if 1 His resignation of the Blsli'jjr.-te'of;l| Melanosis was recently forwarded W tW<i . Pripiate of New Zealand .liy i>r. C.'i-cU r '. Wood, a Press As3oet»tk>ti mosta^!Auckland states.' In a lettir to. tiifl s Prinvtlo tlie Bishqp taid; "I regret - •end you by resignation c.f th 4 If!ehnpri| of Alolanesia. My staff lias voted want of eoafidei'co m me, so fot, the work's sake I withdraw."' ■ Vj It is reported in Christehuroii th'i. 1v ft jit on Times); that Miv J , Parry, who luis resigned from thj tion of Chief Govcrnktnt Electntal Koi.ffl gineer in New Zealand, been [ pointed to a Council of Engineers, •aV'-J ! up in London, tn report on ft t great development of tngineering opfera->,'< . 'tiona in the, United Kingdom. Some > the. most notaible engineers in tlie fitOi/: ; pirs will be members of file cqunv'l. 1 | 1 Bishop Wallis, formerly of WcllitigtOßjll who, since isn, hag 'Jeen workingSalisbury Dioccne, Cndti it necessary* .nig ■ grounds cf health to resign the demtanry of Sherborne, at; the' en^ of the ysar. Sherborne, which H ; fonrth Archdeaconry in Salisbury ' cosej was formed two years ago' *te|! 1 Dr. Wallia was appointed.- Tlie ' of , Salisbury expresses hjs own legtvk and that of the clergy and % Bishop Wallis' retirement in hii '■ v 'Magazine. ?,a| | A private cable received lftst iight Chr-istchureh from England the death of Mr. 15. Denis of Auckland, and son of the'late ftqpis ; Sir Maurice O'Rorke. - v His talk <im& the result of a fall /row,- a horse,-;>i■■BH ' had been a resident in England for years, and the principal part of lifg work had been the purchase ofvhota* the British Government. His was killed In France, and his eldest'eop'S ' was wounded a second time ta"9»ptwwsH , ' ber last; His Widiw jj a lnember of Well-known Rhodes family, of ' bury—Press Assoc. ' • Mr. Robert Riley, Parliamentary. c6E- : a| i respondent of the Duiiedin Stat, been appointed an additional aeMtafjH to the Ministerial delegation, and it f&'l understood that he will be wtf"u4ted-<il with the task of writing (in official »to^' - $. (from the New Zealand view,point) of >% -the * Versailles Peac"? Congress, MrHsj Riley is one of the ablest pressmen if New Zealand. He is a facile anil "tMn* chant writer, and for years acted tfs th(jf'S| leader writer on the Dunedin Star: Hi -If shonld do justice to his important neif'-rf . assignment.. ' ' ifM ' '-There passed away at Waverley oi Tuesday morning a well-known in the'person of Mr-,Henry libftin^:-'JI The old man, who was abput 77 years o| ftge, had been'® employee of tie landlords of the 1 - Commercial HqteJ' fori|i some 1(5 years, and wan well known /s'| throughout the district. SAfter the Con»Vs'j mercial Hotel was burned (Jjowp o!i®j man took a trip to London, -tft® plMs',o§ffl his birth, to see his brother, wfro since died. Wlien the hotel wm,' built, he returned to his - former pos|*i"*ft2 tion in Waverley, where he until his death. - Among the many victims of dt Hokianga was a prominent Natlv.ril named Herensaia to Wake, wiio hj%& reached the age erf 80 years. In the caVIK-'i daye of settlement in Now Wake and his tribe had a lan4<£>ra\itK with the members of an adjoining trim! and as a result of an affray between parties, one of Te Wake's opponent* yfyir killed. Subsequently T>> Wake was peg.)! suaded to go to Auckland, where he trap! placed in gaol. As he had been 1108$ believe that ho was to receive a pardon for his pari of the Te "Wake considered Ins breach of faith on the pwt of the rltie?. He. therefore, planned in tii£ I cape, and with two other prisoners tnjifjiH aged to scale the gaol wall and Set His companions were both fcaiitawd by. the warders, but Tfl madp good his oswipr. Later the Qftvefel nor, whilst in the district, sent fir 4nd ho gave himself un, rocpivini* ($" pardon in 187*. Ho wielded a -ood ! Jil fluewe amenjr the Vntlves, nnd >n respected % both Native?