Personal.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 285, 17 November 1916, Page 4

Personal.

The Hon. A. Myers and Mrs Myers of Auckland, are visiting Napier. Miss Bargrove left Hastings this morning for Wellington. The Hon. T. Ngata left Napier by car to-day for Te Ante, and South. Mr. P. Beattie of Napier, is on a brief business visit to Tutira. Lance-Corporal E. Wood, of the 21 st Reinforcements, is on a short visit to Napier. Mr. J. S. Thomson, Drainage Engineer, of 'Wellington, is visiting Napier. Mr. S. E. McCarthy, of Napier, has been presiding at the sessions of the Wellington Magistrate's Court. A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Mr. . Studholme, New Zealand sportsman. from mi attack of pneumonia. A Sydney cable states that Briga-dier-General Glasfurd, commanding the 17th Australian Infantry Brigade, has been killed in France. Mr. Drew, mqmber of the South African Parliament, is a passenger by the Motralti, whiih hit Sydney yesteiday. ■ Press Association. Amongst new probationers appointed to the ho-pital at Wnlton-on-Thames is Miss N. Jdlinston (Hawke’s Bay). A London cable says that Sir J. <l. Ward left London hurriedly for Dublin, where his son Gladstone has had a serious relapse following the motor aecidtiit of ;t few weeks ago. Mr. AVilliam Keir, who died suddenly at I.inwood, was a member of rue Mounted Constabulary during the Maori War in the Waikato, and dispatch ridet for some time with Gene ra 1 Can>e ro n. Mr. \\ . K. Bishop, for seventeen years on the staff of the “Sydney Morning Herald.” was formerly founder of the Druidical institutions in the North Island. Mr. Bishop is at present visiting New Zealand. Able-Soft man W. L. Clemas, of the destroyer Nestor, is a prisoner of war at Brandenbetg, in Germany. His address is Kriegegefangenenlager, • Company 10, Barrack 10, Bramb nberg. Havel, Germany. The death is reported at Dunedin of the Rev. James Chisholm, aged seventy three years, retired Presbyterian Minister and Moderator General of the Assembly in 1908. He was the author of “Fifty Years Syne.”— Press Association.

Mrs. J. T. Ennor, of Napier, who has been visiting Auckland, is due to arrive home by mail train thia evening in company with her son, Mr. Fred Ennor, of Auckland, who will spend a short holiday in Napier.

The death of Mr. Thomas Barron, which occurred nt the Auckland Hospital, removes one who has long been associated with Auckland on the waterironl as a waterman, on the goldfields as a mining prospector, and during the Maori war as a fighter.

Major James Mackintosh Beil, son-in-law of Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, has been attached to the Royal Highlanders ot Canada, and is now in France. Major Bell was formerly Director of the Geological Survey Department in New Zealand. Ht subsequently held an important position in Canada, which he resigned to enlist. Captain E. T. Rupert Carlyon, Sherwood Foresters, is a prisoner of war at the Kriegsgefanenanlager, Husaroo Kasarue at Crefold, Germany. Captain Carlyon lias lost n eye. and suffered very severely from exposure. Before being captured he lay in a i renehjor thirty six hours, with snow falling all night, and he contracted a severe’ attack of inflammation of the lungs. He is an old Wanganui College boy, and his mother Jives in Napier. Amongyt the number of families known as “fighting families,” th© following record of Mr. H. W. Clarke, Otorohanga, will be among the best. Mr. Clarke was born in Wellington in the ’fifties, his father being a corporal in the 65th Regiment (known as the “Bengal Tigers”), which took part in tho Maori 'War. He has a family ot seven sons, five of whom are on active service, one was through the Gallipoli campaign, being invalided home with enteric, and the remaining son has enlisted. Their names and reinforcements are as follows: - Private A. Clarke, went with the Main Body, and was invalided homo with enteric ; Corpora] W. Clarke, wt with the l-'ou.th Heinforceineuts ; Sergeant 8. B. Clarke, went, with the Fifth Reinforcements (had horse shot under him in Egypt); Private 11. A. Clarke, went with the Sixth Reinforcements ; Private J. R. Clarke and Private J. Clarke, with the Seventeenth Reinforcements. The first four all saw service at Gallipoli. In times of peace all the above boys were keen athletes. Four years ago, wlion the Otorohanga Rugby Club won the Maniapoto Union Banner and the Chilcott Cup outright, five of the above boys were in the cnanipiou senior team.