PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London message reports the death of the Rev. Spottswood Green, who made the first ascent of Mt. Cook.

Mr J. R. Rcid Hill was yesterday appointed representative of the Taranaki County Council on the National Park Board for a further term of tf «e years. Mr T. C. Blackett, of Te Kowhai, has been appointed chairman of directors of the New Zealand Dairy Association, is succession to Mr H. E. Pacey. Mrs. S. Ackland, of Tarik,\, has received cable advice that her son, Pvte. G. Ackland, is returning to New Zealand on tho Rimutaka, due in Wellington on May 17.

A London cablegram reports that Miss Elizabeth Asquith has been married %o Prince Antoine Bibesco, who is attached to the Roumanian Legation in London. The most prominent politicians attended the ceremony, and Royalty was represented.

Mr. H. B. Gibson (Stratford), son •of Mr. A. B. Gibson, of New Plymouth, has passed in the subject of procedure in the recent law profession examinations, and thus completed the course entitling him to admission as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. At the Christchurch music and elocution competitions, which opened on Thursday last, Miss Constane Leatham won the piano solo (open class) with 151 points. The J;est piece was Chopin's Y sharp "Impromptu" (opus 36). Mr. D. Evans, who has been appointed headmaster of the West End School at New Plymouth, was, prior to leaving Inglewood, where he has proved a most successful master, the guest of a number of prominent citizens, and was presented by the Mayor with a gold-mounted cigarette case, duly inscribed, and Mrs. Evans with a silver entree dish. Messrs, Young, Sutherland, Wagstaff, and Burrows all paid tributes to his sterling work, and expressed their best wishes for his future success.

Among the names of those recently awarded the M.M. is Sgt. E. A. Mulligan, of Manaia, who left with the Fifth Reinforcements, He has seen service in Gallipoli, Egypt, Belgium, and France, and was on leave in Italy when the armistice was signed. He took part in the march into Germany. He is returning to New Zealand by the Northumberland, due about the middle of May.

Lieutenant A. E. Byrne, son of Mr E. M. Byrne, formerly proprietor of the Manaia Witness, who won the Military Cross, is officially referred to as follows in the London Gazette: "On August 25th, 1918, in front of Biervillers, when all the officers of one of the at* tacking companies became casualties, Lieutenant Arthur Emmet Byrne, First Battalion, Otago Regiment, went up to take 'omimuid. Under great difficulties lie reorganised the company, and speedily had them ready to carry on with the advance. On the morning of September 7th, in front of Nieuville, suspecting that the enemy were holding a position very close to his line, he organised and led fighting patrols round the flanks, and secured tiO prisoners, find several machine guns, without a single I casualty to his own men. His courage, initiative, and coolness under fine were most marked." Lieutenant Byrne, who had been engaged in Australian journalism hei>re going to the front, is at present attached to the War History Department, London, engaged in writing the. history of the operations of his regiment during the period covered by the war. Another son,' Lieutenant J. K. Byrne, N.Z.F.A., left with the Main Body as a sergeant on the Headquarters Staff, and whilst on the Peninsula transferred to the artillery, with which unit he served throughout the Western Front campaign. Lieutenant Byrne, who has been employed for some months in England co\piling a history of the «ew Zealand Field Artillery's work during the great war, was formerly on the staff of the Wellington Post, and is returning by the Kia Ora. A third son, Corporal V. J. Byrne, who saw some hard service, was so severely wounded towards the close of the fighting around Armentieres as to necessitate his return to New Zealand and his eventual discharge.