PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cablegram from Paris reports the death of M. Tovolsky, the Russiun exMinister.

Mr. Newton King left by motor last evening for Wellington, en route for the South Island.

Mr. Walter Young, of New Plymouth, who has been seriously ill in an Auckland hospital, is now out of danger. Brigadier-General W. Meldrum, C.M.G., D.5.0.-, arrived by the Rarawa yesterday morning, and is 'staying for a "few days with Mrs. Carthew, Watson Street. . Mr. C A. Wilkinson, M.P., left for Wellington yesterday in connection with the Industries Committee, of which he is chairman.

Mr. H. W. Reid, formerly of (ha Now Plymouth branch of the Union Bank of Australia, who returned from active service by the transport Matatua last week, is spending a few days in New Plymouth. Mr. J. W. Hardy, 8.A., late headmaster of Caversham School, Dunedin, has been appointed to the position of additional inspector of schools for the Auckland district.

Captain P: Q. Henderson, M.0., haß been appointed chief instructor to the musketry and machine-gun school at Trentham..

A novel scene was witnessed in Patea on Saturday morning when a motor lorry passed through the town with, a large caj,j on it. In the cage was a very fine coy, which was being conveyed south by this mean,s owing to the'railway not being available.

"The New Zealand horses are out on their own," writes Major W. K. Foley, of the N.Z.M.R.8., from Cairo, in June, in referring to the sport of horse-racing in which the boys were able to indulge in their spare time. He says: "At the last grand military meeting of the E.E.F. all the races were won by our nags, and our horsemen also, Captain E. R. Black, of Gisborne, riding five winners and one second out of six races, while the big race, the Allenby Cup, a distance of two miles, went to a Palmerston North horse, Gazelle, with Greytown, an Auckland horse second."

An exciting man hunt took place at Addington on Friday, At the end of the seventh race at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting, a young fellow is alleged to have walked up to a payingout window of the totalisator and snatched £2O in banknotes from the ledge. He is then stated to have dodged in among the crowd, and made full speed for the Show Grounds adjoining. Inside the totalisator wore Detective Abbott and acting-Detective Bickordike. They had, however, to traverse the full length of the building before reaching the egress door. They saw their quarry making for the Show Ground fence, and in company with Mr. McLennan, of the totalisator staff, set out in hot pursuit, while hehind them panted the crowd. Over the high fence leapt the quarry with the agility of a practised hurdler, and following him in athletic manner came acting-Detective Bickerdike. with a few others in close attendance. Meanwhile Detective Abbott had run round to see that the suspect did not escape by the gates. For half-an-hour actiug-Deteetivc Bickerdike chased his man round the Show Grounds, taking care that he did not scale the fence and escape in that manner, and finally ran him to earth hiding among some manuka hurdles. The man was arrested. Earlier in the afternoon the two detectives arrested a man on the grounds upon a charge of forging a totalisator ticket by altering its number.