PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Councillor C. Kerse was absent from the County Council meeting yesterday, and telegraphed: his apology for nonattendance He is at present spending a. short holiday at Kotorua. Private. A. P. Slocombc, who returned by the Tahiti as medical orderly, and who has been in Gore for the past, three weeks on leave, left by the lirst express this morning for the. A.mbulance Carrm at Awapttni. Rev. \V. Gray Dixon and Airs Gray Dixon, of Roslyn, are spending a. short holiday with Kev. and Airs Hain, of Waikaia. Rev. \V. Ham left by this at ternoon's express to take the services at .Roslyn Presbyterian Church tomorrow. Private Horace Braithwaite, who was wounded at the landing at Gailipoli last -May, died, in the hospital to is morning (states a. Duned'ii Press Association telegram). Deceased was brought back by the Tofua, and was a son of Air Joseph BraithwaU.-e, the well-known Dunedin bookseller. Air L. T. Herbert, a. business man of Pahiatua, has received advice from Loudoir that, hi.s brother Frank, an officer of the. Persia, is missing. He was for over 30 years in the service, aud 1 visited Pahiatua a- year ago. Another brother, Lieutenant-Colonel. Herbert, is at the fiont. A. letter was received last night oy the parents of Private AY. T. Poppelwell, who is-"a. member of Earl ol" Liverpool's Own, that he was well at the vinie of writing (November 30), and was with hiri brigade stationed at Sidi Aba, Raman, about. 100 miles west of A-'fexandria.

/ Air R. Bifrgar. who has been- at the front, for some time and who participated in tho lighting on ftallipoli, hasbeen promoted to the rank of soeondlieutenant. His brother William, who has gone through tho Oialiipoli campaign unscathed, hi,s experiences including halt'-a-do/.c'ii bayonet charges, has been promoted to th« 'fiosition of ser-jreant-armorer. The estates of 301 deceased persons wore assessed for st,amp- duty during the month of December, the lar<roe-t being that, of John Speedy, Hnwke's Bav, £62,417. .Southland estates were: Donald MoKarl-aiw\ £1420; Herbert'H. Rodgor.s, £10o0; John. Thornton, £791 ; On. Hawkos, £787; John 1). MoFarlane, .C7(j2; William T. Goodsir. £696; Edward John Kep, £f>>) ; and William A. Waugh, L'oo-H. The daw estates were: John Alalloch, £'i4,fH)o; Oha:-. |

l.awery, -£.V27.'1: David P. Milligan, £5120; Jas. K. Mather, £lVm ; John Spencer, £2-T>o; George Spencer, £2214 ; Jessie Scott, £212-1'; Alexander Watson, £ 1.>35; Brvan 11. Kinpr, £1833; Geo. Cowio, CI2SI ; Adelaide Ai. Beighton, £1226; Joint K. Knott; Mary B. Korguson, £lO2-1; Jas. W. Miller, £733; Phillip Lonnoii, £7iiXs; William Bambory, £687; Geo. Park, £(>0C;; Isabella Somorville, ■ CoO); Robert O. Dawson, £~kA>; ,'Jas. S'teele, £V)lr,- Wni. H.. Pvlo, £.-,14. A. Wellington Press Association telegram .states that Per. Patrick Doro, ennplain to tho forces, mentioned in the cable* as having Ik»>»i awarde<l the Military Cross, wa,s one of iho two Catholic chaplains who loft New Zealand in October, 1911, with the Main Kxp-ed'itionary Forces. Ho was -at-tar-hod to tho Auek'and Mounted Piflp.sand. landed with them when thev arrived- at GVdipoli. Chaplain Doro was lan indefatigable worker in. his own. .sphere, and wa s ever -at- hand to assist in :>.ny branch of the work. His ntime was a household word among the latlii at Anzac, by every one of whom lie was b-doved. Chaplain Doro was hit while aiding a. wounded man under fire on An trust 21, and- was taken to tho military hospital at Devonport., England, whore- lie was lying at last advices. Chaplain Doro is :\ n-ntivoof the .South of Ireland, and about 30 years of ago. Ho came to New Zealand five* years ago. being .stationed' in Palniorslon r.nd Koxton. He was nu enthusiastic i.nortsman, ami excelled in sovornl branches of athletics.