PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Hokitika telegram reports the death of Mr. James Chesney, a former wellknown merchant, aged 77.

A meeting of .the Advisory Board of J\ew Zealand Patriotic Societies takes place at Wellington on Thursday, and will be attended by Mr. J. F.. Wilson on behalf of the Taranaki societies.

Private George Bendall, who was presented with a wristlet watch on Saturday night at Westown, when on his final leave, was also, before be went to cam]), presented with a sleeping-bag and a heart-protector by the residents of Frankleigh Park, The following are among the latest list of appointments of officers to the New Zealand Military Forces, with effect from April 20, 1010:—Artillery: Second-Lieutenant William Eric Maitland Lees, Unattached List (b), General List. Infantry: Second Lieutenant Frederick Russell Baker, Unattached List (b), General List: Second Lieutenant Digory Warne Pearee, Unattached List (b), General List. Medical Corps: Captain Rex Carrington Brewster. Ellis Asihinead-Bartlett has been busily denying that he is a son of Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, who married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. As a matter of fact, the war correspondent is the nephew of William Lerman Ashmead Burdett-Coutts, to give him his full name, and is tllie son of Sir Ellis Ash-mead-Bartlett, Bart. Ashmead-Bartlett is not a journalist by profession. He began his career as a soldier in the- Boer war. The talent for descriptive writing developed afterwards. News has been received of the safe arrival in London of Dr. Derry and twenty-five members of his Anglo-Ser-bian Hospital, including Dr. Ada M'Laren (New Zealand), News of their coming had been sent in advance lo the American Ambassador, London, and to the American Legation, Berne, by the American Ambassadors at Vienna and Copenhagen respectively. . Tliey were, given safe conduct through Europe, travelling by way of Budapest, Vienna, Zurich and Paris, leaving Vrnjntska Banja, Serbia, on February, IS, arriving in London on .March 12, all well.