PERSONAL NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

!\i r r P. C. Webb, M.P., ai rived in town on Saturday night and received a hearty welcome home from the session by many friends at tire railway station. Mr Thomas Watchman, of Wellington, arrived in town on Saturday evening to

attend the funeral of his nephew, the late John Goulthard, one of the victims of last Friday’s highway robbery. He returns to-morrow. Mr A. H. Holmes, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, and formerly of the West Coast, has received private cable advice that his son, Lieut. Clarence Howard Holmes, has been awarded the Military Cross. Lieut. Holmes was born in New Plymouth, and was educated ait the Central School there, and went to Wellington College in 1903, and afterwards to Victoria College. Entering upon the study of the law, he served his articles with Messrs Young and Tripe, solicitors, of Wellington, and at the time he enlisted (October, 1915) tie was nittnaging clerk for Messrs Meares and Williams, solicitors, of Christchurch. Lieut. Holmes received his commission before leaving the Dominion in January, 1916, and was attached to the 12th Nelson Company, First Canterbury Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was in the recent fighting at Messines and at Warneton, and it is assumed that it was in the more recent fighting in Flanders that Lieut. Holmes gained the distinction of the Military Cross.