PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. H. J. Colvile, of Te Wera, has been appointed a ranger for tha Stratford Acclimatisation Society. Mr. C. E. Daniell has been re-elected, unopposed, tc the chairmanship of the Wellington Harbor Board.—Presg Association.

A London cablegram reports thai Major Norman Hamilton, of th'c New Zealand Force, has received tha D.S.O.'

General Joffrc personally decorated General Sir lan Hamilton with the Legion of Honor, in the presence of the battle-stained Verdun division.

A London cable states that the King, 'at a Drury Lane Theatre matinee, knighted Mr. P. R. Benson, the eminent Shakesperian actor, who is retiring from the stage. Cable advice has been received from Tasmania of the death there last week of Rev. G. Allenson, a former resident of Omata, and for a brief period a member of the Taranaki County Council. Mr A. J, Morton, inspector of schools and secretary of the Westland Education Board for the past twenty-one years, and for some time past senior inspector of the combined Grey and Westland districts, has received notice of bis transfer as Senior inspector in the Taranaki educational district.

Mrs. Lumsdon, of Lepperton, has received news that her brother, Capt. Jas. Cameron, of the Seventh Wellington Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of Major. Major Cameron left for Egypt with the Main Expeditionary Force, and has been in charge of the Abbassia Detention Barracks at Cairo.

Captain Jensen, for several years muter of the Mokau Steamship Company's coastal steamer Tainui, is about to go on extended holiday leave, during which hj« will visit -Melbourne. Captain Berg, of the steamer Wet ere, who ling acted as master of the Tainui occasionally, will succeed Captain Jensen. The Wetere, Which trades 'between Waitara and Mokau, is also owned by the Mokau Steamship Company.

The ranks of the early pioneers of Canterbury have been further reduced by the death of Mr. Charles B. M. Morse. Born in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, Mr. Morap, wlien quite a young man, sailed for Naw Zealand in the Bhip Tiptree, on October 20, 1863, arriving at Lyttelton on January 20, 1884. After forty-two years' continuous service on the railway he retired on superannuation.

The following Defence Staff changes are announcedLieut.-Colonel H. E. IPilking, Adjutant-General, joins the expeditionary force and will be succeeded by Colonel R. W. Tate, commanding the Wellington military district; Colonel J. E. Hume, commanding the Auckland dlstrict, succeeds Colonel Tate; and Colonel j . . S> Paterson, lately actlngadmimstrator at Samoa, assumes command of the Auckland district.—Presa Association. > - •