PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14142, 19 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■ ' '. o —— ■'.■'. T>^ Q G- V F* Sin l a]iboile J postmaster of JDannevirke, and formerly of Nelson srD®sr iited assistant:P«^»^ : .

member of the Oanterbur? Ruo'hy iivo foXflev a r^esenta-

,■ Mr and Mrs Frank Mitchell of Taihape are leaving shortly for Raaotonjl (Cook Isands). Mr Mitehell has Accepted the- wbon a !S clerk of the Magistrate's Court there.

The Latest list of wounded includes the name of Co*-poral P. B. Strongman..

A London Press Association cable states that Dr. C. A. Alingfcon, headmaster of Shi-ewsbury, has been apliointed headmaster of Eton in succession to .the Rev. Hon. Edward Lytteltbn.

News has been received at Ward (writes the correspondent of the "Marlborough Express") that Rifleman J. E. Bell, formerly president of the Flaxbourne Settlers' Association, and a wellknown settler, had beet* wounded iv the head whilst serving in Farnce.

Mr W. A. Hisfop, one of the V.M.C.A. secretaries, at the front in France, is Suffering from shell shock. Mr Hislop li-ftb with the first troops from Egypt, anoSha-s been since April near the ariiigline v*omewhere in France.

Lance-Cocporal L. S. F. Bell, reported in yesterday's casualty list as having been wounded, is a son of Mr and Mrs J. F. Bell, of'WeHsford, Auckland, and formerly of Nelson. He was 6mplo3reJ in the 'Union Bank at Greyroouth at the time of his enlistment.

Sincere regret is expressed in tlie Flaxbourne district (says the "Marlborough Express") at the death of Corporal Charles G'unn, of the 2nd Battalion Lord Liverpool's Own, who was recently killed in action on the Western front. The death occurred on the Bth inst. at Eu&ra. Mesopotamia, of jaundice, of Lieutenant W. K. H. Clarke (Officer Commanding New Zealand Wireless Troop), aged 28 years, husband of Mrs | Ethel E. M. Clarke, and son-in-law of IMr and Mrs J. Vare, No. 89, Broughamstreet, Wellington. ! Mrs W. Gill, of Wakapuaka, has received cabled advice tiiat her s:on, Private N. C. Gill, who left New Zealand with the Eighth Reinforcements, was. admitted to hospital on July Bth, suffer^ ing from wounds in the chest and arm. A private cable was received by Mr and Mrs E. E. Boy« 3. Df Vanguard street, yesterday, that their third son, Gunner George Eoyes had been wounded. The message diet not mention the nature or position of the wound, but said it was not serious. Mr W. D. Thompson, of Wakapua-k-.i. has received v/ord that his son, Sergeant Stanley G. 'Thompson, has been v/ounded in the right thigh. Sergeant 1 hemp-son left New Zealand with the Main Body, raid has therefore been nearly two years on active service Mr Thompson has two othur sons in the Espoclitionar y Forces. The death ct\?..ry«?-;3 s.b Takaka yesterday morning oi Trooper C. W. Peters, who enlisted with the Seventh Mounted Reinfoi'cement* ar.d was invalided from Egypt, returning to New Zealand by the hospital ship Maheno last April". The deceased, who v/as a single man. was well knct/ri in the Takaka and Motueka districts, ' where he i>ractised: as 5. veterinary surgeon for somo years. He also" seived in the Sou Mi Afiicau War. Alfred J-jnigreayes, son' of Mr W. Hargre-avos, of "Waimea street, who has joined the Sixteenth Reinforcements, is spending his ;Wj .leave in. Nelson' Pnvatu Harg.re-avcs has been away from Nelson for m-;:y yoars- He is a horse trainer f by ocrapa-lion, and was for scive.n years connect.^ with the Hon. J 1) Onnond's sfciUos. Tie has been on the West Coast lor seme time, where he had Clamnenn, Gasoline and Wild Bird 511 his charge, with all of whom he -won The. death o<c:;<t v .j at the Napier Jios]>ital m- ( T.t! v of Servant T. Richardson, v. <:,r:- y.-.ts invalided 'back ivom Galbpoii *:---r-o time ago. He was y.-eJj known throughout tho Hawke's bay district tint] seived in tho South Atncaj; Wai-, Ho V /as one of the first-u-bii to enlist r.r, ropier at tlie begmr.mg of the p!v.<H-.23t war. He was a son of the hiio Major Richardson and Mrs W. A. Richardson. Sergeant Alfred A. M'Arthur, a nephew of the hitc Dr. M/ArtTiur, S.M., of Wellington. l:;;s been reported "missing, believed u> bo dead " He served wrti) the Samoan force, and left New Zealand later v.ith one of the reinforcement drafts. Prior to enlisting he was an officer in tho engineering division of tho New Zealand j-aihvays. Advice has been received of the death on active sorvico of .Major A. E. Wolstenholme, who left in January last in charge of the 4th Battalion of tlie New Zealand Rifle Bri&ado. He was killed in action. Major Wolstenholmo was well known in Ihmedin. Bofore lea vinoDunedin he ficid the post of treasure'? of the Kaitun*«sßo7/]ing Club, was''an enthusiastic eh.«- player, and a Mason, being a numk-r of i--odge St. Andrew 1 His militaiy <rarc*r began in Tasmania.' lit 189-1- the deceased joined the staff of Ales.srs Herbert, H^aynes. and Co., in ■whose employ ho remained up to tho time of his departure. He leaves a v.;ie, a son and a daughter.

An official telegram received by Dr I- O. Guthne, formerly of Lyttelton aimounoed that his only son, Captain room as Errol Gxrthrio, R.A.M.0., had been killed in action in France on July 2nd. Captiun Gutlino was born at Uinstchurc-!., 3JJ( -i educated at tbBoys High Sd>r>oL He took a medical course at Home. and. afterwards underwent xpccia.l irmrdnz at Aldersnot, wnero no oi.tarc-a ].i s commission in tho Royal Anr, v F/iodical Corps. Comm^vyimmty U, ?;cv/ Z^hnd. Captain uucjino enuTOil 0 .-. tho practico of his Pfoio.^sioii sokji. threo 'years ago, in leikhncr fe*; B .-./ :.-.-.,.nths a OT he abandoned ms prnetko and Vent to tho front.

The late Mr Cl?aj-3cs Turkic v/ns an earjy arrival in tho Madborough district, where lie spc-.-ita great part of his lite; and he wxs for many y.ears a prominent and a-etivo figure in" the bus-iness-aad civic circles c f Blenheim. In. 1864 he took part in the Wakamarina gold rush, and for scido time conducted the hotel at Canvastown. Subsequently he was a partner with Mr R. D. Nosworthy in a- leading-commission agency [business. Retiring from business*3pursuits, he resided in Blenheim for some years, and served a term of memlbership !<m the Borough ConneiJ. He removed |to Wanganui several years ago, where jhe died at an advanced age. His wifo I predeceased him, and he leaves no | children. .-Old rt-RicWis (says the "E?ipress") recall that-Mr Furki'ss, who was ,a man of genial personality, was in the j old. days an active promoter of sports gatherings h eld -on. Seymour Square and introduced the Abyssinian horsa srace, which had a popular vogue.