PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs. Boyle, of Webb Street, Wellington, has been advised that her soil, Lieutenant M. S. Boyle, who left with the Australian Forces, has, for. the second time, been wounded. ..

The death is announced by a Press Association message of "Suniner Locke," the veil-known novelist, alter giving birtli'to a sou. Her.husband; Sergeant ■ElSiUt, is at the front.

Corporal Walter E. K. Hind, who died of wounds in France on October 6, 1917, was the second son of Mr. P. E. Hind, ot , Timaru. Corporal Hind was born at Christehurch, and was ■ educated at the Woodville District High School, of. which he became dux, in: 1909;: also gaining the Junior Scholarship. Later, he attended the Timaru Boys' ' Hi&h School, from which he entered the Civil Service, and was stationed at Timaru in the, Money Order Department for some ; three years, being then transferred to the Wellington Money Order Office, from which city he enlisted in the Twentieth lteinforcements. Corporal Hind was one of the ten to shoot for the "Weekly Press" Challenge Shield, when at school in Woodville, which shield was. won by the school for three successive years. A Eeuler message from London states rhab Sir William Pollard Byles, M.P. for 'North Salford, is dead, aged 78. Sir William, who was a prominent Radical and social reformer, represented the Shipley Division of Yorkshire from ISD2 to IMB. He had' b'een M.P. for _\:>:-.., . ford since 190 G. No definite news has so far been received (states the "British Australasian" of August 1G), concerning Lieutenant. Fabian Beeves, 8.N.A.5., son of the Hon. and Mrs. W. P. Eeeves. who was posted as missing in June. There appeared in the London Press the official German list of British machines which had come down behind their lines in June. The names of the airmen also were given, together with the' particulars whether killed or wounded. The name of Lieutenant Eeeves is included in the .list, with his correct rank and number, , "ami •his. machine is described -correctly; '• but unfortunately his was about the only/ name wlncb had no comment beside it. A letter : has been received in London from the Officer Commanding the Air Squadron, and he himself does not. think TSat Mr. and Mrs. Eeeves need give up hope. Lieutenant Eeeves, it seems, was an extremely able pilot, and'would make n landing if this was at, all possible. Moreover, if his was the machine which his comrades saw falling he would try to make it appear to his falling "in order to prevent: being shot at, fts ho was forced to come down.