PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

IProfessor Maemillan Brown, who hat been on u scientific visit to New C*to« donla, returned to New Zealand in tk« Manuka yesterday. He proceeded to Ohristcburch in the evening.

The Very Rev. Chancellor Price has received a cablegram from Eev. Father Richards, stating lie was leaving Cairo for GaUipoli; also that Father MeMenamin -was ill, and Father Dore had been wounded.

Corporal J. R. Sullivan, of New Ply. mouth, who recently, returned from tn» Dardanelles as he had temporarily lost his voice through a wound in the neck, has now fully recovered the use of tola voice.

The Rov. John Dawson, president of the Methodist Conference of New Zealand, returned on Monday by the Niagara after attending centenary celebrations in New\ South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland.

At a meeting of the committee of the Hawera Bowling Club on Monday evening, a resolution was passed expressing the sympathy of the club with Mr. and Mrs. (Harrington (the former was one of the founders of the <chib) in the sorrow that has come upon them by the lost of their son.

At the close of the County Council meeting on Monday, the chairman (Mr. J. Brown) referred to the faiet that one of the members, Mr. J. Andrews, fcad recently celebrated his golden wedding, and he tendered the council's best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. Mr. Andrews, in a happy little speech, returned thankn for the chairman's kind remarks. Among the list of those wounded at the Dardanelles appear the names of Lance-Corporal Baxter, a nephew of Mr. A. V. Baxter, of Patea, and Private W. J. Butler, a former member of the Patea Football Club's first fifteen. This is the second time Private Butler has been wounded during the present campaign. Trooper Brio Catchpole,' who was killed in action at the Dardanelles, waa a son of Mr. and Mil. A. B. Catchpole, of Mokoia. He was formerly in Toko and Strathmore, where he was at school. He was in the fighting from May Bth with two brothers James and Alfred, Who are still unhMt.

Private F. J: Fougere, who w»s wounded at Gallipoli'on August 8, was a member of the Taranaki Company of the Wellington Infantry Battalion. Ha threw up his occupation, of farming to take up the more haazrdous task when war was declared. He was born at Pukehoe, near Hastings, and is now 22 years old. His parents like at Tarata. Mr. J, L. Kirker, Auckland manager of the British Dominion's General Insurance Co., Ltd, has left for Trentham camp with the ninth draft of non-com-missioned officers. His position with the company will be kept open for him, and Mr. H. C. Stoddart, manager for New Zealand of the company, is now in Auckland arranging for the control 0/ the business during his absence. The death is reported from Napier of Mr. E. Chigwidden, an old resident of the town, in his eighty-fifth year. He went to Napier in September,' 1872, and resided there ever since. He left a widow, two sons and four dadgliters, besides twenty grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Of the sons, the eldest (Mr. W. Ohfgwidden) is inspector of stores for the Post and Telegraph Department, and resides in Wellington.

At the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools' Assistants Association yesterday, Mr. R. Rockel (New Plymouth) was elected 'president, and Miss Ironside (Palmerston North), vice-president, while Messrs. Gilford and Brodle (Wellington), E. Caradus (Auckland), and R. H. Lang were appointed to the executive committee. Mr. F. Martyn Renner, M.A, Wellington, was re-elected secretary.

Sapper Percy W. Bramwell, who is reported as having died of wounds at the Dardanelles, was the oldest son of Mr. J. W. Bramwell, of Feilding. For about three years he was on the staff of Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co., Wellington, and during that time was a member of the Field Engineers Corps, in which branch of the service he enlisted at the outbreak of the war.

The Rev. T. H. Roseveare, of "St. Andrew's Church, New .Plymouth, who is suffering from nervous prostration and has for the last thrw months been resting in the South Island, finds that lie will be unable to resume his pastn.al duties this year. He has, therefor*, placed his resignation in the hands of the managers of St. Andrew's OhwvJi, and a meeting of the congregation is to be held on Wednesday week to consider whether the resignation should be accepted or whether an attempt should b» made to carry on with a locum tenens, in the hope of Mr. Rqseveaie'S recovery and return to work.

Sergt. Vernon J. Hay, killed In action recently, was credited with being the youngest officer holding a second officer's certificate in the whole of the British mercantile marine. He was 21 years of age at the tima of his death, anil obtained his second officer's cert'flcate at the ago of seventeen. He gained iiis first seafaring experience on tlio Amokiira, and was ono of the first hatch of boj's from that vessel to obtain a second mate's ticket. On leaving tho Amok-nia he joined the Craig line of sailing vessels, trading between Austral'a and New Zealand. He afterwards entered the service of the Union Company, in whose employ he was at the time o* hi.-; enlistment.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Chapman, killed in action while forving with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, was well Itnown and hig'hly esteemed' in all parts of the Bay of Plenty. Born at Richmond, England, S7 v'ears ago,' he came out to New Zealand with his brother, Mr. E. Chapman, in ISSI, Thcv proceeded almost immediately to Opotiki, and acquired a farm in the Waiotahi Wiley. The late Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman always took a keen Interest in military matters, and served in the Opotiki volunteers, On the outbreak of war he was appointed major in the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment of the main Expeditionary Force. When the infantry of the force left for Gallipoll, Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman waa in command of the New Zealand camp at /eitonn. He proceeded to the front ia June.