ROLL OF HONOR.

PERSONAL ITEMS. News was received in Havelock <->n Saturday (writes our roriespondent) that Private Jv. AJdridge had i'ylleii at the Dardanelles. Prioi- to the outbreak of war Private. Aldridrie. was a resident oi 1 laveloc k. where ho was \ery popular. The Australian casualty lists contains the name of V. .M. McLuri, who died from wouiuls. He served with the New Zealand contingent in South Africa. Mr G. L. Benniston, Belgian Consul in Dunedin. and Lr-nther oi Jiis. I-lonor Vti Justice Denniston. of Christchurcli. received a cable im^f.aire on Friday morning, annourjeing the de-ith of 'his youngest son, Sergoant T. l\. Denniston, from ontoric 'fever, at Malta. Mr M. Taylor, of .Pain, has: veceivtxl details .showing how his .sori. Trooper (J-corge Taylor, met hiv death: "*\Yq wore on outpost duty about a r.:ilo from, the main camp when it happened," writes a cnmiadi:. "(•jcorgo wiis looking out through one of tho loopholes in the trenches. A bullet- from a sniper came- right through the loophole, hitting him in iiie head: death being insta?!tonr-o>is. We are al! very sorry to lose him. iis i-.he?-o was hardly -i bl'tter lik<>d fellow in the squadron." A letter from Captain G. C. (Jfiffith'j to -Sfrs J. Dundon, of Ward. dt>«cribes the death of her .son. Private W. T. Dundon, on June . Private Bun-don was O3ie of a party who volunteered to take some Turkishtrenches, and was shot wirile.^ crossing the .space in front of the New Zealand position. "He lies buried in a. pretty valley where most of the New Zealand men are buried."

Loiters received 'from Captain J. FEorilker last week show that he w;ik twice wounded :vt tho. DarcLwirllef;. On the fiift oc«\sion he re^-'ived ile«h wounds, raid was soon h:\i-k~ in the firing line. The second time iri<wounds were more serious, the irK^l;---meuts of j?. bomb striking him on tho back of the neck, severing an artery and infiietinir other injutieK. At the time of writing Captain Houlker w-is in a tionvsdesc-ent home on ;:n island in the Mediterranean, and hoped f.or-n to, get into :i^tion again.