PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Captain C. Nelson, of the I.sth Hussars, formerly of the TSfew Zealand forces, was wounded in France.

Mr James A. McElwaiin, a veteran of tho 65th Regiment, and a pioneer of Wanganui, died on Sunday, aged 88 yoars.

Hie death occurred in Wanganui yesterday of Miss Delia Eliza Tripe, sister of Dr. J. D. Tripe, in her 89th year. Miss Tripe had been an invalid for many years.

A cable -message from Sydney states that Private W. Coleman, who was killed iii action at the Dardanelles, was born in Wellington. His parents iiow reside at Pyriiiont, Sydney.

Mr George Ellwood, the gifted Christchurch 'ellist, who has been studying under Jean Gorardy, and escaped from Berlin on the night war was declared, is now on his way to Now Zealand.

Mr Murdoch McLean, Mayor of Mount Albert (Auckland), has received information that his son Rae McLean, with the Australian contingent in the Dardanelles, lias been killed in action.

Another of Mr William L. Bailey's stalwart eons has entered the marriage state, and Mr and Mrs Alf. Bailey passed through Fcilding from Palmorstou to Auckland yesterday to spend thciir honeymoon.

Major A. M. Samuel, Gth Manawatu Mounted Rifles (who was tho Government candidate .for Hutt seat), has been accepted for service with the Expeditionary Forces, and is now in camp. Major Samuel fought in the South African war.

Mr W. He id, of Makino, has iive nephews at the front and one going. Major Hart, of Cark-rton, who is amongst the wounded, is one of (he nephews, two others are with tho New Zealand force, and the other two with the N.S.W. contingent.

Major TourrriT, the now divisional commander for the Wellington division, will bo welcomed to. Feildiing on Sunday uoxt. Adjutant Haywanl, (he new Young Peoples' Secretary, will also ho welcomed. They will arrive by the Auckland express on Saturday.

Lord Pluuket has been busy at Home giving all tho help in his power on behalf of wounded soldiers. A committee headed by him raised £9000 from New Zoalaiiders in London, with which to buy comforts for our men, and they got ready a convalescent home for our wounded soldiers before the casualty lists reminded everyone that this was urgently needed. ' By way of a change or recreation in his busy life, Lord Plunket takes on the' humble role of a sergeant of special constabulary, Jiis duty being to guard Buckingham Palace-. "The night spells are deuced cold," he coniidc s to a, New Zealand corerspondent.

A private cablegram received by hi s lather, Mr W. C. Watson, the Wellington builder, reports that Corporal Alfred Godfrow Watson, an old Wellington College boy, who went to the Dardanelles with one of the Australian oonlingciigs. has been killed in action. Corporal Watson was a- member of the third battalion of the First Infantry Brigade, N.S.W. He was 29 years of ago, and though he had been absent from this country for some years, had many friends in Wellington, Auckland, and elsewhere in the Dominion. After spending some time in Auckland, he went, about seven years ago, to .Australia, and thence to New Guinea, where, with a partner, be took up a rubber plantation, which engaged his atlen-; tion until he enlisted for active ser-' vice.