PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144484, 19 September 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL.

At the annual meeting of the New Plymouth brunch of the at. Joan Ambulance Association which was held on Friday night, a resolution was passed expressing regret at tire enforced absence of Miss A. .Hempcon from the meeting, and sympathy With her in her illness.

A London cablegram reports that Lord Curzon has been quietly married 10 Ruby, ruteo of Mrs. -Vloroton i ; re wen. Mr. Moretou Prcwen is an independent Nationalist member for East Cork. Lord Curzoa is 65 years of age, and has three daughters by his first wife, who was an American lady, Miss Loiter, Mrs. Moretou i’rcwon is also an American lady, and was a Miss Jerome. The death is reported from Nelson of Mr. Henry Trent, formerly Commissioner of Crown Lands for Nelson, Marlborough and Hawke’s Ba_v. Ho was born in 1818, and was educated in London and in Nelson. lu 18(53 he entered the service of the Nelson .Provincial Council, and became tin officer under tho General Government when the provinces wore abolished. He retired from tho nubile service several years ago.

Lieutenant Harper Leppcr, youngest son of Mr. 11. li. repper, oi Leppcitou, who recently qualified lor a coraiuiasiou in the British Anny, lias now received notice of Ids appcinuueiu, as a second lieuionaut in Lne Middlesex Regiment (the Duke of Cambridge's Own;. This is tho erstwhile ei’tii (tho Old Dioharus; famous m Now Zealand during the Maori war ana in different other campaigns in other countries. The present 11th i'arunuki Regiment is allied to tile Middlesex Regiment under the scheme by which Acw Zealand regiments are connected with- those at Horae. Lieutenant Lepper, who has for tilt- pas: three or four years been a pupil at the local High School, lias been ordered to hold huuceif in readiness to leave with the expeditionary force to join Ins regiment, anti will probably travel by the Aruwa.

Colonel W. E. Gordon, who wag killed in tho righting near Moils, has relatives in Auckraml i>ays the btarj. It will bo remembered that the cable stated a regiment of Gordon Highlanders, marching along a narrow road, and believing they wore approaching the Frencu lines, hoard shots fired on the left. Colonel Gordon ordered, his men to the right, and went along the other side, calling out ‘'Anglais.” Meanwhile this .other party, who were Gormans, worked round to the roar. Tho Germans fired, at close quarters from all sides. Dawn disclosed heaps of dead e\ crv.v here. The Colonel lay dead apart from his comrades. On July 11, twelve years ago, at Kmgersdorf, Colonel Gordon, then a captain, won the V.C. Re went out to rescue a gun under hoary fire, and with the greatest coolness fastened a drag-rope to it. Captain Younger and three men assisting were hit. Colonel Gordon then assisted the rest of tile party under cover, and having seen tho wounded ■safely away, himself retired. His conduct, under a particularly heavy and accurate fire at only 850 yards, “was most admirable, and his manner of Kindling his men mast masterly.”