PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144713, 23 June 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

A; Melbourne cablegram announces' that J. J. Addison, the tennis player, has been killed in action in France. Messrs. F- Black and C. Tilleard Natusch, of’Wellington, are at present in New Plymouth. A 'London message states that Mr. Justice Barton, the Australian judge, lias sat for the first time as a member of the judicial committee of the Privy Council. ■ . ■

Amsterdam . reports that _ Professor Kraws has returned from his medical visit to tho King of Greece. He declares the King was neither .poisoned nor wounded, but was suffering from a natural illness, which developed into pleurisy. There was a great crowd present when the body of AVameford, the airman, arrived at Victoria Station, London. A field-gun detachment' of the 1 loyal Xaval Division carried tbs coffin to the cemetery, where AVameford will bo buried to-day. Lieutenant J. S. Dockrill of the Army 'Medical Corps, writing from camp at Hants”on May 7, says that Lord Kitchener had inspected the 9th Division the previous day, that all leave had been stopped, and that he expected a*move to the front any day. Whether to Franco or the Dardanelles' he did_ not know. The 9th Division is -entirely composed of Scottish regiments.

Prior to leaving this district for Norfolk Island the Rev. Mr. Crawshaw was presented by the children of the Sixth Standard of the West End School with •a token of the esteem in which the scholars held him and for his kindness and assiduity in the Biblo-reading at the school. Ho will bo much missed by the scholars of this school. Mr. Crawshnw presented the two prizes for tho best essays on the work of the Melanesian Mission,‘open to the Fifth and Sixth Standards, to Edna Mount and Keith Thomson respectively. Private H. B. Randrup, Auckland Infantry Battalion, who is reported killed in action on May 8, at the Dardanelles, was a son.of Mr. W. Randrup, Cambridge, formerly of Taranaki. He was educated at tho Stratford High School and Victoria College, Wellington. He subsequently entered the civil service, being engaged in the Auckland office of the Native Lands Department when the war broke out. For .some years lie bad been preparing for the legal profession. Although of studious habits, ho was keenly interested in athletics and was an enthusiastic yachtsman and tennis nlayer, being a member of the Auckland Tennis Club, in which sporting circles he was affectionately known as '‘Banja’ 1 His,disposition' was kindly and generous, and he was highly popular in a large circle of friends', including the members of tho Junior Club, to winch he, belonged. He was,about 37 years old, and was among the first to volunteer in Auckland for the main force.