PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 188, 22 July 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr. T. C. Moore, of Napier, is visiting Wellington. t Corporal R. Chisholm, at one time a resident of this district, is visiting Napier. Sir Joseph Ward has been confined to his room for a few days with a severe cold. Captain F. W. Baron, late commander of the Te Anau, has a comomission in the R.N.R. Sapper Vaughan, who left Hastings with the Tunnelling Corps, will arrive at Hastings this evening. Mr. W. S. Smith, of Invercargill, arrived in N apier last ev emng, where he suceeds Mr. E. B. Burdekin as Deputy Official Assignee. Among the visitors to Napier are . Mrs. J. Jackson (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. W. Wall (Wanganui), Messrs. F. and A. Toogood (Featherston). Private T. Robinson, of the 16th Reinforcements, who has been spending his final leave in Hastings, left for Featherston Camp this aftern°The death occurred on Thursday at Auckland of Mr John McDell, late of the Royal Horse Artillery. Mr. McDell was 85 years of age at the time of his death. . The Arahura sailed from Auckland at 2 p.m. with the following passengers for Napier Messrs. Dickinson. Commens, Borden.— Press Association. , r A London cable states that -AllPeter Mcßride, the son of Sir Peter. Mcßride (Agent-General for Tasmania). a private m the Yorkshires and Lancashires, has been killed in France. -r -n j Platoon Sergeant J. C. Boyd, son [ of Mr. and Mrs. McDuff Boyd, who , went into camp with the 19th Ke- . inforcements as a N.C.0., arrived in Hastings last night on a few . davs leave. . , , I Private H. S. Fowler, who leaves • with the 19th Reinforcements, was. yesterdav met by the employees of J. Black and Son, Napier, and presented width a pocket canlera and a wristlet watch. Mr. and Mrs. T. Rapley, of Havelock North, have received word that their son, Private Thomas H. Rapley, has been admitted to hospital suffering from wounds to the scalp right arm. cheek and hands, received in action in France. . Mr. H. H. Eby, representative ot: the large American combine running! the Luckenbach Steamship Com-1 pany, has reached Wellington frdni| San Francisco on a business tour of the Dominion. The first steamer of the line to visit the Dominion arrived at Auckland on Thursday. Sergeant-Major Lee, of Napier, who is shortly leaving for the front, was last evening the recipient of an illuminated compass from the members of No. 68 Company Napier Technical College Cadets. SergeantMajor Lee has devoted considerable time to making this company efficient. Mr. W. Charters, of Riverslea road, Hastings, yesterday received a telegram from the Hon. James Allen, stating that his brother, Private John Charters, had died of wounds received in France. The late Private Charters left with the Sth Reinforcements, and jyas a son of Mrs. Charters, of Dufferin street, Hastings. Mr/E. H. Culver, a Napier pressman who is leaving with the 19tn Reinforcements, was last evening the recipient of a safety razor set from his fellow boarders at Tennyson House. The presentation was made by Mr. Bridgeman, who referred to tne great popularity of the departing guest. A large and representative gathering attended thp funeral of the late Mrs. Catherine Cowan yesterday afternoon, whose remains were interred in the Havelock cemetery. The last sad rites at the graveside were performed by the Rev. A. Gow. The coffin was adorned with many beautiful wreaths, bearing testimony to the thigh regard in which deceased was held.

According to private letters received by the last English mail, Mr. Noel Ross, who left Christchurch with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was invalided from Gallipoli, has received a permanent'appointment on the staff of the “Times,” London. He was to form one of a party of journalists to visit the naval bases and the Grand Fleet as the guests of the Commander-in-Chief. Word has been received that Lieut. Athol Hudson, son of the late Dr. Hudson and Mrs. Hudson, of Tapawera, in the Motueka Valley, Nelson, was killed in action. Lieut. Athol Hudsoh was an old boy of Nelson College and Waitaki High School. He was selected at 19 years of age out of 15 as Rhodes scholar from the Victoria College.—Kress Association.

Private Alfred Herbert Bond (wounded) is about 30 years of age. He was apprenticed to theA engineering trade and then joined the British Navy, being an engineer on H.M.S. Carnarvon when she did her trials. Owing to a breakdown in health, he was discharged, and came out to New Zealand, setting first in Hawke’s Bay. About five years ago he went to Auckland, and was employed on the machine-room staff of the “New Zealand Herald” and the “Weekly News,” where he served until his enlistment. Private Bond was in action against the Senussi on Christmas bay. He took a keen interest in sport and was a prominent Association referee. Saturday’s “Poverty Bay Herald” has the following:—The Trooper R. G. Cooke, reported to have died of wounds, was not Trooper Rudo Grattan Cooke, of Nelson, as previously announced, but Trooper Robert Gray Cooke, of Riccarton road, Christchurch. The deceased trooper was employed at the Hastings railway station prior to enlistment. When the Reinforcements paraded at the station previous to leaving by train, the commanding officer found that they were a man short. Knowing the deceased had enlisted, the officer asked him to fill the vacancy, which Cooke immediately did, putting off his railway uniform. Six other members of the Hastings railway staff are serving in various Reinforcements at the front or are on the, way.