PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of Lord Edward Cecil Dr. H. A. Cooper -fc- recuperating at t'renui beach after his rpcent strenuous time fighting the influenza, epidemic. A Christofiurch press mesiage notifies the death, of Jtr,-A 4 iH. Bourn, auctioneer x>f the New Zeajajid Farmers' Co-op. Association. • ■ w . „ Colonel J. J. E*<ibn, 0.M.0., has hden appointed Acting-A'ssistant - Public Service Commissioner,'and will take Up his duties on January 1. Messrs. C. J. Parr, M.P. for Eden, and E P, Lee, M.P. for Oamaru, were the gu'estp of Mr. G. V. Pea'ce. M.P, o\\-r this last week-end. On Sunday last- they motored'to Mount Egmonti am'. sihW'-Joih; >. in reaching the summit, unttar mobt f tfix* 1 feet'conditions. ■ ' ' ..■sfjiai'n

11l accordance with' the decisum tif IM*" 5 " Eltham County Council tfi'at he uiFftsfrH 80 "* to Mcpnsidey his resignation from, 'hf* Council, Cr. A. C. Pease »'a'a l ftppt l oarfK*d jri '" yesterday, but lie, did not so? hjß'wajr alter/fyis decision. M>.. Tancred, of Westowji-, lis received., -, a letter from his son, Sergeant Selbv, ' Tfinered, stating that he .was Sling Camp for Prance. Sergeant "fan- ' cred enlisted with the 11th Reinforcements as a private. He ivas wounded two years ago at Flers, and since his recovery has been engaged .on military duty at Sling Camp, and in France.

Rov. J. McArthur, who was for some years in charge of the Opunake Presbyterian Church circuit, died of , bronchial pneumonia at Otaliuliu, last week, aged 70. Deceased, who leaves a WidoW and a grown-up family, labored for many years in North West Canada prior to coming to New Zealand, The presentation of- two Military Crosses was made in Wellington on Friday by his Excellency. the GovernorGeneral. One was received by Mr. W. C. Millar, of Coromaridel Street, Wellington, father of the late Second-Lieutenant. (Temporary Captain) A. C. Millar, and the other by Mr. W. M. Doughty Plymouth, formerly of of the late Lieutenant