PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144711, 21 June 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr. Fred AT. Humphries, manager of the Union Steam Ship Oamaru branch, is paying a short visit to New Plymouth. Mr. F. AV. F. Fagan, is on a short visit to Now Plymouth. Ho has volunteered for the front and goes into camp next month with N.C.O.’s rank. Our readers in the Stratford district will learn with regret of the death at Helensville, on the 16th inst., of Mr. Percy Knight Worthington, son of Mrs. Worthington and the lato J. K. ATorthington, of Stratford. The members of tho Aliens Commission— Messrs. A. D. Thomson (chairman), George Elliot (Auckland) and John Roberts (Dunedin), loft New Plymouth by tho mail train this morning. A passenger by tho Maita-i from America was Mr. E. J. Greenstrcot, a cousin of Captain Greenstrcot, of tlio Romuora, who is returning to Now Zealand from Canada after an absence of 22 years. Mr. Greenstrcot came originally from Christchurch. Included in the passengers by tho .Alaitai from America on Sunday was Archbishop Redwood, who ia returning to Now Zealand after thirteen months’ absence. His Grace attended tho Marist Conference in Franca, afterwards proceeding to Romo, where ho had an audience with the Pope. Archbishop Redwood also travelled through Spain, and thonco proceeded to America. AVhilo in Rome he mot Mother Alary Joseph Aubort, a well-known ATellingtoa nun, who has done much in tho causo ofcharity in New Zealand. Soino anxiety was caused among tho friends of Colonel Malone hero on Saturday night by a passage in a letter, published in that day’s Dominion, from a Nelson man to his father, stating that “word has just como that our old Colonel Malone has been shot doad. Ho was in charge of tho AVcllington Infantry.” This letter was written from a hospital at Cairo by a man who was wounded on April 27. Apparently it was an exaggeration, because the only advice Colonel -Malone’s relatives hero have received is to the effect that ho was slightly wounded at tho lauding at ,Gaba Tcpc, a spent bullet or piece of a shell grazing his neck. The wound, however, did not necessitate his retirement from the firing line, and it is understood that he is still there. Tho death on Saturday evening of Sir. James Way, in his 75th year, severs tho last link of _ tho 70th regiment -with tho Taranaki veterans. Sir. AVay had been in indifferent health for tho last twelve months, but it was only on AA’cdnesday last that ho took to his bod, and three days later ho passed away peacefully in Ills sleep in the presence of all his family. As.a private in tho 70th he was engaged in tho East India trouble, and afterwards landed in Auckland in 1863, taking part in tho Maori war in the AVaikato and Taranaki districts. AVhcn the 70th Was ordered homo ho obtained his discharge and settled in New. Plymouth, whore he has resided ever since. Ho was predeceased by his wife 26 years ago, and married again later. Deceased was one of the oldest Foresters in Taranaki, being a member of Court Taranaki. He was also a member of the Veterans’ Association. Ho leaves a widow and live married sons and daughters to mourn his loss—-Alfred, Henry, AVilliam (New Plymouth), Arthur (Marton) Ernest (Fielding). Airs. J. Phelps (Ashburton), and Airs. R. Evans (New Plymouth. Tho funeral took place this afternoon..