PERSONAL.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 88, 12 May 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

u'Si?" 1 ' a K eu t' s license was granted to •Mr Thomas Gage, of Kaitangata, at, the sitting of the Kaitangata .Magistrate's Court yesterday. -Mr F. B. Hauptlleisch, who has been conducting a drapery business at Owaka, lias disposed of his interest to Mr W. 11, Smith (well known at Owaka), and has leased .Mr A. North's farm at Ahuriri Flat. Mr Xorth has purchased Mr W. •J. -Miller's farm and residence in the Owaka township. Advice has been received that Trooper Gordon Sinclair (Otago Mounted Rilles), son of Mr John Sinclair (a well-known resident of Balelutha), and Sergeant W. J. .Morgan Roberts, who is also well known at Balelutha), having been on the staff of the local branch of the | Farmers' Co-operative, are returning to | New Zealand by hospital ship. | Sapper Len (lee, of the Kngineering j Corps, 14th Reinforcements, who has been home on final leave, left for TrenItha in by Wednesday's express. Sapper j Gee speaks highly of the camp arrangej inents and the treatment of the men, and states that lie has had the time of his life (luring his training, lie reports himself as fit as a fiddle, and certainly looks it, having gained lMlb in weight in 111 weeks. Prior to enlisting Supper Gee was in the employ of D. Munro, Balj clutlia. I Mr John Irwin Shore, an ex-pupil of the Kaitangata and Balelutha District High School, left for Wellington to-day | to (ill a position as cadet in the Department of Internal Affairs (writes our Kaitangata correspondent). At a special meeting of the Balelutha District High School Committee held on Wednesday Mr H. Drury, of Kaikorai, was appointed to fill the position of janitor, vice Mr Boxall. j Mr Albert Grant, who was invalided : home from the front, has received ad- ! vice that he has passed his sergeant--1 major's examination, j The death occurred yesterday at the Chalet Private Hospital, Dunedi'n, of Air William Mitchell, who was for many years farming in tbo Wainnia district. The deceased gentleman retired some seven or eight year* ago and settled at Clinton, where he resided it) the time of his death. "Bili> !! as he was familiarly ( called, was widely known and highly ' esteemed by a. very large circle of friends, and anyone between Balelutha and Duiiedin who (lid not know him was a new chum. His genial disposition , endeared him to all with whom he came j in contact and made him highly popular, j Deceased had been in an unsatisfactory '• state of health for several years, and j finally became a victim to diabetes, ;. whiel'i was the cause of his death,