PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4006, 12 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

Captain. A. Carson, the _ newlyappointed harbormastei. runted •<> take up Ins duties yesterday morning.

Mr Dillon, locomotive engineer yit charge of branch lines, arrived m Gisborne yesterday on a visit ot inspe<tiou.

A Sydney P.A. message records the death of Mr. Fitzwilliam Wentwcrtii. son of the late Air. William Charms Wentworth. formerly owner m “Wentwood” station, near Dunedin.

In the course of ci letter irorn the Front. Private G. M . Webster stales

that Lieut. AlcCoil, of Gisborne (formerly on the Borough Coumi! staff) is having a spell with the General (Vnnmauding's bodyguard.

Messrs. Richard and H. M - Barker have deckled to proceed iJoint* £ind offer their services to the British Government. The Gisborneit-e-s will leave Auckland by the s.s. Niagara early i i September. It is Air. Harry Baric Us intention to endeavor to he miaoued to the ammunition column, hut- ir i-hri is not possible he will take up some other branch of the service in v< nmotion wth- the war. Air. Richard Barker hopes to he able to assist in the motor service- in Eng'nnd. or to lake up some-, other kind of u-crfui work. Airs. Richard' Barker aid accompany her husband Home.

Among the Gisborne lads who are. returning home by the s.s. lat:h.:. which left Suez Canal on Saturday last-, is Sapper William Benson. who left Wellington, with the Royal Engineers in the Fourth Reinforcements. Sapper Benson was wounded in the right leg. which lie will not be. able to use for the next two 6? three months. He had to undergo two operations to have the bullet- extracted. In the hospital with him is Corporal Renwide, also of Gisborne. He. also has been under an operation, hm is getting on all right now.

Writing to a friend in Gisborne, Private G. W. Webster, who is himself well, states: “I am pleased to say Doug. Fa ram and Reg. Parsons are doing well. Doug, suffered a hit at first owing to being short of food. Il< ; is not a good forager. Reg. Searfo is the boy for that. It was nothing for him to sneak hack to the base and rejoin his mates loaded "with tins of jam, etc. ... A friend of mine.

ynw temporary guard to Sir lan Hamilton, said he came across Doug. Fa ram carrying hack the remains of a machine gun on his back. He was carrying out his brother's advice to strike hard, and which caused us to duh him ‘Strike Hard Faram.' If appears that the gun was put out of action by enemy fire after all but one man had been killed.’’