PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144778, 7 September 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel Ellis has received word that "his son, Sergeant Trevor Ellis, has arrived in Malta slightly wounded. Captain E. D. Anbin, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, has been selected to go to Egypt fts surgeon attached to the forces. Captain Aubin has been in medical practice in Auckland for about nine years, and has served' on; the Medical Staff of the Volunteers and Territorial Force fob about fifteen years. He,was latterly on the Reserve. He will leave Auckland about the middle of the month. Wo regret to report that word was received on Monday morning by Mr. C. E. Farrington that his son, Sergt.Bugler Mat. Farrington,' has died of pneumonia. Very great sympathy will bo felt for Mr. anckMrs. Farrington; The deceased was a bright, lovable lad, who made friends everywhere. He en-, listed early in the war, and was associated with staff work, twice receiving promotion and being extremely well spoken of.—Hawera Star. The Rev. Professor Dickie, who has filled the chair of theology at the Knox College, Dunedin, for several years past, took the opportunity of announcing to a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery that he intended to apply to the next ordinary meeting of the Presbytery for leave to return to Scotland, to make application for the chair of systematic theology in the • Aberdeen Theological College. Candidates for this position are required to present themselves for examination. Professor Dickie stood very high on the list of applicants on a previous occasion; and now the post has again fallen vacant. The Rev.' T. H. Roseveare, who is suffering from nervous prostration and has for the last three months been rest-, ing in the. South Island, finds that he will be unable to resume his pastoral duties this year. He has therefore placed his resignation in the hands of the managers of St. Andrew’s Church, and a meeting of the congregation is to be held on Wednesday week to consider whether the resignation should be accepted or whether an attempt should be made to carry on with a locum tenens in the hope of Mr. Roseveare’s recovery and return to work. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Rosoveare, and his congregation and friends wish him a speedy restoration to health. Gnnner George Victor Wakefield Falder, news of whose death from enteric reached his parents on Monday last, left New Zealand with the Second Reinforcements. He was nearly three months at Gallipoli. Born in 1893 at Adelaide, the late Gunner Falder came to New Zealand, where he was educated at the Kaikorai School (Dunedin), the Wellington District Hi&h : School, and later at Wellington College, where at the age of 15 he secured bis matriculation, and a year .prior passed the Junior Civil Service. - In 1910 ho came with his parents to Taranaki, whore be took up farming with his father, Mr. J G. Falder, of the East Road. He was a fine keen lad with brightest prospects before him, but he felt that his duty was at the front. His, keenness in military matters won for him the rank of sergeant in the Territorials. Mr. and Mi's. Falder have the sympathy of a large number of friends in their loss. —Stratford Post.

Quite a gloom was cast over TVaverley on Saturday, the Pa tea and Waverlev Press says, when it became known that Mrs. JS. P. Symes had passed away with tragic suddenness. - The deceased had just left her home, with her niece who was leaving by the mail train for Stratford to spend the weekend with her father, Mr. 6. D. Hunter, who is leaving for the Trentham Camp, when she suddenly fell forward on her'face. Her brother, Mr. M. S. Hunter, who was. called at once, ran to her assistance, and Dr. Haryey was summoned but already life was extinct. The deceased had suffered from heart trouble for some time and her health had been such as to cause her relatives and friends grave anxiety, it being realised that a sudden failure of the heart’s action might occur at any time. Mrs. Symes was a daughter of the late Mr. David Hunter, and had lived practically all her life in the Waverley district, her bright and winning personality making her beloved by all. She leaves behind her a family of five children, including four sons and one daughter, for whom with Mr. B. P. Symes the deepest sympathy of all will be felt.