PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

To-morrow ia the birthday of th< Emperor of Austria, who will be 85 year® old.

Mr. \V. C. Macgregor, wlto was recently appointed Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, has had the distinction of King's Counsel conferred 011 him.

Private advice was received in New Plymouth yesterday that Captain F. L. Hartnell is only slightly wounded in the shoulder.

Mr. A. C. Wheatley, who has been appointed accountant in the New Plymouth town clerk's office, has taken up his duties,-

Private Tom Hopkinson, of New Pljs mouth, has been wounded for the second) time. He has been hit in the shoulder, but,the wound is not serious. Private Sid. Griffiths, who left New Plymouth with the Main Expeditionary has been wounded a second time. He has been hit in both the arm and leg.

Private F. V. W. West, of New Plymouth, who was wounded at Gallipoli, is one of those who have embarked foi) England,

Captain Oeorge C. Hart, for many years assistant marine superintendent to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Wellington, who retired six years ag' 1 , died yesterday, aged 74.

Lieutenant Frank Turnbull, formerlj of New Plymouth, appears in yesterday'i casualty lists from the Dardanelles. Tliii is the second time Lieutenant Turnbul: has been wounded.

In yesterday's casualty list the n&mt of Olmplain-Major J. A, Lux ford, on« of the best-known Methodist minister, in New Zealand, appears amongst thosi who have been,-wounded.

The death is reported of LWutenam George Taylor, eldest son of .Mr. G, W Taylor, of Eltham. Lieutenant Taylo was killed in action at Gallipoli. It was reported laat night in Wellington that advice had been received that Major Arthur Hume had been killed In action at the Dardanelles. —Press Association.

Corporal J. R. Sullivan, who was wounded in action at the Dardanelles, is on a visit to Now Plymouth. He loaves for Whakntane in a day or two. Corporal Su]livan, though otherwise looking well, has not fully recovered his voice.

Mr. A. Mason, Devon Street East, received advice that his son, Private Alfred William Mason, has been wounded in tho forearm. Private Mason was employed at the aerated water factory of tho Jigmont Brewery. His brother, Private P. Mason, is going into camp, with the Eighth Reinforcements. The Navua, which arrived at Auckland! from Samoa yesterday, brought the following officers and men of the Expeditionary Forces:—Majop Travers, on special duty; Major Colecroft, inflamed leg; Privates Gannaway, Lloyd, and, Guppy, invalided; Private Devine, orderly to the officers. A cablegram from Sydney, received in Auckland, contained reassuring news concerning the condition of Dr.. H. W. Geary, Koman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. The message read as follows: "Patient very weak. Had several ittacks since Sunday, but heart not affected. Doctor most hopeful, and says recovery matter of time." A private telegram received i« Auckland from the Minister of Defence states that as the result of inquiries it has been ascertained that Corporal Charles Savoury was killed in action on May 3. Corporal Savoury was amateur heivyweight champion boxer of New Zealand, and a' member of the Australasian Northern Union team which toured England.

Writing to Mr. M. Barclay, of New Plymouth, Lieutenant E. Morgan, of the Taranaki Company, tells how Sergeant W. Mnlloy mot his death in action i> I Gaba Tepe on April 28. Sergeant Mnlh;, met liia death bravely, facing an enemj attack with maehitie-guns, and he wat shot through the head. "I could nevei have wished for a better sergeant, and it grieves me to think I have lost him for good," adds Lieutenant Morgan. The wound sustained by Captain Hartnoil at the Dardanelles is nftt so seriout as was reported yesterday. A prival i cable has just been received by hil relatives here stating that his arm, not his back, was injured. Word was ala< received yesterday that Private T. i,'' Hopkins, of New Plymouth, has bfw< wounded in the shqulder. Mrs. Caroline Clow, of New Plymouth has received advice that her seventh son, Private Ernest Clow, was admitted li» the hospital ship Delta on August " of 8, wounded in the left leg. Private Clow left with the Third Reinforcements, and was a painter by occupation, employe! by the Taranaki Education Board. There are not many farmers in Tar«* nttko who can lay claim to having continuously supplied one dairy factory for the past twenty-three years. Mr. H* Old, who has just sold his farm at Lepperton, and has removed to Waitara Road, hold} that record, having continuously supplied Lepperton Dairy Company sine# its opening day. Suppliers to the factory recognised his worth by presenting him last night with a handsome clock for himself and Mrs. Old, suitably inscribed. Mr, II B Lepper, who made the presentation, in a happy speech, remarked that t, 1 ! recipient would have been the first supplier to Hie factory but for the fact that the speaker beat him by a minute. Taranaki, a district saturated with military tradition, has sent many of iti best, men to the front, and to-day it sorrows for the chief of them all dead on the iield of honor (writes the Lyttclton Times). The late Lieutenant Colonel Malone, of Stratford, who commanded the Wellington Infantry Battalion of thu New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was one of the older generation of colonial citizen soldiers. He first learned his drill in the old Armed Constabulary Force, in the days of the Te Whiti fanaticism, when, although the Native wars had long ended, Taranaki was dotted with redoubts and military watohlowers, and when the tents of the A.C.'s whitened the Waimaie Plains. His life for many years was that of a bush settler, but lie found tiime for volunteering, and he was one of the enthusiastic inen who kept life in the volunteering cause tn , Taranaki when the Government's scant encouragement and alio, perhaps, the indifference of the general public, led to the diribandment of a number of companies. His military experience extended over a period of thirty-five years, rounded off when he was Hearing his sixties with a soldier's end on the battlefield where two of his ions have also proved the fighting worth of the family. The name ot Lieutenant-Colonel Malone deaerwh long remembrance and high honor in the list of New Zealand's soldfere wdio have fallen in the Umpire's cause, and all the more so because he was advanced in years when he left home and ease and leisure at the fir# for attlito &