PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Lieut. Walter John Iviug, who is in camp at Trentham. and appeared in khaki, was yesterday admitted a solicitor of the Supremo Court, at Wellington, by Mr Justice Chapman.

Tho marriages of Misses Matilda, Alice and Margaret Harre, late ol Rata, to Messrs 11. G. Bennett ami Arthur i.leuwood ros_jcctivol.,v, were solemnised by the Roy. Jas. Wilson af the Presbyterian Church, Marton, on Wednesday afternoon.

.Private Patrick Mulcahy. formerly in the Wellington City Council's (service, admits to being 48, nevertheless, he is off' to tho front. Ho has one son wounded after IS weeks in the trenches at Gullinoli, and another son is on his way to the front. Major Marshall McDonald, of Dunedin, lia.s been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and appointed to tlie physical meteorological centre for the Fourth Army in the Mens district. France. For tho past nine months Dr McDonald has been in charge of the military hospital at Solemes. Caiitain Uardhain, V.C., intimated at Thursday night's meeting.at Lower H'ult that he had been passed as medically fit by the Medical Board, and wa.s going buck on active service. He was going wherever he was wanted ; "he could never see enough of those great men who fought against odds on the Gallipoli Peninsula." In the supplement to the London Gazette, published by the War Office on January 1, 1910, in the list ol officers recommended by., the Com-mander-in-Chief of the British Army in Franco for gallant "and distinguished service in the field is the name of 2nd Lieut. H. A. Cooper, of the Royal Flying Corps. Lieut. Cooper is lhe youngest son of Mr ■Justice Cooper. lie joined the Royal Flying Corps immediately war was declared, and has for many months been on active service af the front in France.

News has been received in New Plymouth of the death of Lieut. Harold .Jennings, son of Mr .Jennings, M.P. Of the killer's throe sons who went on active service in the early stages of the war. Lieut, Jennings is the second who has given his life. LanceComoral Fdgar Jennings having been killed iv action at Gallipoli. Harold Jennings was the eldest son of the member for Taumarunui, and left I New Plymouth five years ago for London. Ho was employed iv the local ibranch of the Bank of New Zealand. The Catholic, community of Petone assembled iv very largo numbers the other evening to bid a hearty widen me home to Cauta in-Chaplain Father McMenamin. brother of Mr VV. 11. McMenamin. of Feilding. who left with the Main Body and was invalided back to New Zealand in ■November, but was too ill at that time to receive a public welcome. The pojmlar jiricst was presented with an inscribed gold chalice, and in bis response to the speeches of welcome aud orcsenlation he gave a brief and graphic account of his experiences on the Peninsula. Father McMenaniin'B complete recovery has been a siirjirise to his doctors and everyone else, ami he- has to report for duty again in three weeks. Going to war, said the Padre, was not a pleasure trio or jollification. 11 it were he would not go back, but it was a stern duty, which drew him like a magnet.