PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16295, 23 November 1918, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. Quilliam left on Friday morning for Feilding, where h© will stay with his daughter, Mrs. Horrocks, for a week or ..two. Mr. Newton King is on toe mend and will bo able ot leave his room m a day or two. Mr. W. Wilson, South Road, has receivedl advice that his only son, Private W. A. Wilson, 37th Reinforcements, has died of wounds. We were misinformed on Friday in the statement that Mr. T. Knowles had been sent to the hospital. He is confined to his house through a bad cold. Mrs. Kirkby has received advice that her youngest eon, Private K. W Kirkby, 38th Reinforcements, was admitted to hospital in France on October JJ, with pneumonia. Dr Verdon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, died! on Friday night of heart failure following bronchitis. Ihe late bishop was 80 years of age. Up was educated in Ireland and at Roma, and was appointed headmaster of St Patrick’s College, Manly (N.S.W.), in 1888. He -became bishop of Dunedin in- 1896.

The death occurred at the New Plymouth Hospital on Friday of Mr. A. Cold well. He was a member of the Inglewood Borough Council, was prominent in the Foresters’ and Masonic circles, and was also captain of the local fire brigade. As a business man and a citizen he was highly esteemed, and his loss will he keenly felt in Inglewood. There died at the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday from pneumonia : Mrs. Grace Francis, of New Plymouth, aged 37 years; Mrs. Moorcook, of New Plymouth,, aged 22 years; James Wylie, of Now 'Plymouth, 17 years; B. Brown, Inglewood, 35 years; Mis. E. M'Beth, Egmont Village, aged 32; A. Coldwell, Inglewood, aged 36; Atua Skipper, a Maori girl, Mangorei Road, aged 13. Mrs. Kidd, of Oraata, has received official information that her son. Corporal R. Kidd, was killed in action in France on November 5, barely a week before the cessation of hostilities. “Bob” was for seven years at the High School, latterly on the teaching staff, and it is only five months since he left for France. He was a fine young fellow, of very high principles, popular among his school mates and loved by the boys of whom he had charge when he was appointed to the stiff. His parents will have the deepest sympathy of everyone who knew him. The news of the death of Dr. Mary Dowling at Hawera came as a great shock to all who know her. It was known that she was seriously ill, but hope was entertained that she would pull through. A daughter of. Mrs. Dowling, mistress for many years of the West End School, she early in life showed great ability. She won a Taranaki scholarship and proceeded to Victoria College, where, after graduation, she took m> the medical course at the Dunedin University. She was very successful in all her examinations, winning scholarship after scholarship, taking amongst them a- New Zealand research scholarship that entitled her to a three years’ course at Home. She was awaiting the end of the war to take advantage of the scholarship, and some time ago decided to commence practice in Hawera, where her work gained for her golden opinions. She was only 26 years of age. Her mother is a victim of influenza, and was unable to see her before the end came. Her brother, who is practising as a chemist in Hawera, i® also down with the disease. To the sorrowing mother and Family the sincere sympathy of many friends will he extended in their great loss.