PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3337, 5 September 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mother Mary Joseph Aubert is making arrangements to return to New Zealand by Christmas timo. In the latest casualty list appears the name of Private P. W. Appleyard (c/o J. Barrow, Feilding). The death is announced of Mr. Sam. Pearn, a very old resident of Taranaki. He served during the Maori war, and was in the suppression of the rebellion that followed the massacre of the Rev. John Whiteley at White Cliffs. ' Rifleman J. A. McCullough, wounded, is a eon of Mr. J. A. McCullough, the workers' representative on the Arbitration Court. He left New Zealand with the 16th Reinforcements, and was previously wounded. Corporal James D. McLeod, of Auckland, awarded the Military Medal, is one of three brothers who have gone to the front, one having made the supreme sacrifice. Corporal McLeod left New Zealand with the Ninth Reinforcements, and so far has gone through without a scratch. A Crimean veteran has just died at Kumara hospital, Orderly-Sergeant M. L. B. Kelly, aged 84 years. He had been a resident of Kumara for many years, and held medals for the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Maori War. In the Tenth Ballot list appeared the name of the late Lieut. Bendix Hallenstein de Beer, warehouseman, Dimetjin. He was killed in France about tAvo months ago. Lieut, de Beer was attached to a heavy battery, and was a son of Mr. I. S. de Beer, a Director- of the D.1.C., of Dunedin. Sir Thomas Royden, one of .Liverpool's most prominent men, a one-time Lord Mayor, has just died. He was head of the Indra line of steamers, the Australasian branch of which has been recently merged in the Cunard Line. His grandson is Mr. J. R. Cooper, New Zealand manager of the Cunard Company (Australasian service}.

Private W. Wilkinson, son of Mr. H. Wilkinson, of Fellding, has been admitted to a hospital in France to undergo an operation foj- appendicitis, severe. Private Wilkinson, who went out with the 7th Reinforcements, was previously wounded on the Somine, and subsequently gassed after his return to the same front.

Lieut. G. A. Diinnmond, mentioned in dispatches for good services in mine-sweeping, is widely known as chief officer of the Government steamer Hinemoa, a position he vacated soon after the outbreak of ivar in order to go Home and offer his services to the Admiralty. Ho has already had some startling experiences, including being blown up by a mine.

Alluding in the French Chamber of Deputies recently to "the , death in action at "St." Quentm of Bar6n lteille, a member of the House, M. Desc'hanel the President, said that 'whW he was killed Baron Reiile was in command of a. motor quickfirer-section. By n tragi , - , coincidence the password for the night lv -as "Reille." his ancestral name. "Tims." said M. Deschanel. oti,fof this valley o.f ,tbe shadows he answered to the call of hi* forefatliers, adding fresh lustiv to the' glory of a race of soldiers.-'

Corporal C. Jtiehardson, of .thp Canterbury Infantry Battalion. Eighth Reinforcements, a prisoner of war in Germany, has written i'o his sifter in Chrfstchurch frpm fJassel, Heese Nassau, t Q the uffvep that lie is wejl and doing a little work. This consists of digging and planting potatoes. The work is not hard, but tho hours are loner from 7 t 0 7. He speaks welt of his treatment, and acknowledges receipt of paix-el.s of biscuits, cake, tongues, and so on from relatives.