PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 146000, 5 December 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The King of Montenegro is -seriously ill. Tuesday’s casn Ity list contained the name of Private j>. K. M'Gibbon (Mrs. M. M'Gibbon, Now Plymouth, mother), wounded, admitted to hospital. Captain Thomas .1. L. Bnxton hasbeen appointed ship’s quartermaster on H.M.N.Z. transports, the appointment dating from November 7. Private A. H. Frost, son of Mrs. Frost, of Ornate-, has been wounded' and admitted to hospital. A London cablegram states that Lieut. N. Pearce, of tho Grenadiers, son of Mr. Arthur Pearce of Wellington, was killed on November 29. Major Crawshaw, secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, Napier, is on a visit to New Plymouth in connection with tho death of his brother. Cable advice Las been received to the effect that Private J. Banks, of New Plymouth, brother of Mr. C. Banks, manager of the People’s Pictures. is a patient at the Barton Hospital, England. Mr. R. D. Kidd, of the Boys’ High School staff, whose name appeared in the list of balloted men published this week enlisted in November on reaching the required age, and was accepted for service. ■

Sergeant Maurice P. Malone (next-of-kin T. Malcne, Mahoe, brother), who is mentioned in the casualty list issued on Tuesday as wounded, is a son of the late Colonel W. G. Malone. Mr. Thomas James, whose name appeared in yesterday’s list of balloted men, enlisted with tee Bth Reinforcements, but was rejected as medically unfit.

Mr. J. W. Ward has received advice that his son. Lance-Corporal C. W. Ward, lias been admitted to'hospital in France with a serious gunshot wound in the face.

Lieutenant A. de B. Brandon, M.C., D.S.O. (.son of Lieut.-Colonel A. d© B. Brandon, of Wellington) who sustained a serious fracture to one of his legs while flying ,jn . Sussex, England, has recovered from his injury, and re-' turned to his squadron. Mr. E. P. Hay, who has been assistant solicitor to the Public Trust Office for eight years, has been appointed to succeed Mr. J, W. M‘Donald as solicitor to the office, Mr. M‘Donald having been, promoted to a seat on the recently con-' stituted board to control the office. The death occurred this morning, in her ninety-first year, of Mrs.. Douglas, one of the pioneer settlers of New Plymouth. ' Born at Plymouth, England, in 1827, the deceased came to New Plymouth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Shaw, and other members of the family, in the Amelia Thompson, landing at Motmoa on September 3, 1841. Early in 1845 she married Mr. J. Douglas, of Thurso. Scotland. and left almost immediately with her husband for Adelaide., South Australia, in the cutter Paul Jones. After a few years spent in Australia, she returned to New Plymouth, and soon afterwards started a school, one of the best known juvenile institutions in the early days of New Plymouth. She continued to carry on this school for very many years, until somewhere about the end of last century. A year ago Mrs. Douglas had a severe illness, but she recovered, and was about again for, some months in her usual health* Though naturally at so advanced an age her activities have latterly been very limited, her death will leave a gap in a wide circle of friends.