PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2856, 29 January 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Included in the latest list of those wlu> have enlisted at Wanganui is Mr L. Campion, of Fordoll.

De-li'iilito word 1 has been, received through the court of enquiry of the death of Serjeant Jack Loebhoad, ol Feiilding.

Mr XV. W. Bird, ALA., for many years inspector of Native schools, has 'been uppoiutod chief inspector ol schools for Hawke's Bay, vice Mr 11. Hill, retired on superannuation.

The Hector Memorial Award and prize for 1911) has licoii awarded by tlie Now Zealand Institute lo Sir Ernest Rutherford, J-rofoKsor of Physics at. Manchester University, an ex-Neb son. Iniy.

Private A. E. Bird has again bemi admitted to the. Point de Konbbeh Hospital, Egypt. His previous exponieiiocs of hospitals over there was for appendicitis and a wound in Ihe leg. Mr Mild was formerly in the employ of Gorton and Son, Keilding.

Mr Samuel Black wood Nelson, who died at Ashburton on Tuesday last, at (ho age of 70 years, w:w one of the pioneers of the' Ashburton' County, having resided in the district for -12 years.

Mr Alexander Russell Dickson, a well-known Southland identity, died in the Gore Hospital this week. Ileceased was born at Leslie, Kifoshiro. Scotland, in 184!). and came to New Zealand in tho ship William Davie iv IY(j'J, landing at Port Chalmers.

Mr aud Mrs Johnson (nee Miss Heritage), who were taking pairf in the physical instruction camp at Keilding" last year, have been gratified at the advent of a daughter, born at Auckland.

Mr XV, A. Kennedy. Wellington manager fur the Union Company, has been in indifferent health for some time, and oonscqiieii'tly the company has granted him extended leave.

The death is announced of ono of the oldest journalists in the United Kingdom. Mr John Wright, editor of the King's County Chronicle, published in the parish of Birr, Ireland.

The victims of the buggy accident which occurred at Uotorun on Sunday, the Hon. T. Thompson. Messrs W. Waddell. and ,C. R. Tappci', and Master Noel Roberts, are progressill" favourably towards recovery.

Sister Garrard, who was one of the Maheno's original staff of nurses, is visiting redding, the guest of Mrs Miller, of Manchester street. Miss Garrard is returning to the fromtwith the next troopship.

The Court of Enquiry has reported that Private All. Ncsbitt, of Keilding, who was reported missing from Gallipoli, is now considered to- be dead. His nareiits have been advised to that effect.

The Governor and Ihe Countess of Liverpool will leavo Wellington tomorrow foil- Ruaruui, wihore (hey will be the guests of Mr and Mrs Joseph Studholimc. On I'uosday they leave Ruanui for Auckland, and oni the next evening, m tlie Tutanekai, visit certain coast [towns north of Auckland, also Tauranga. " They will arrive about the middle of Fobruary at Gliristohuroh. ' where their Excellencies will be in residence for .several weeks.

Private Albert Charles C'owdrcy. of the 16th Waikatos. reported as baviny been killed on April 27 .of last year. was a grandson of the late Mr Edwin Cuff, of Halconibe, who served as a sergeant in the Tararu (Thames) Rifle Volunteers iv Waikato in 18G9 during the Tc Kooti trouble. Three of his uncles, Cuff, were through tho last Boer war. His brother Thomas was severely wounded at Anzac on tho same clay as ho (Albert) was killed. Two of bis brothers, live nephews, and five first cousins have enlisted. Joshua Cuff, of Invercargill. was reported as dead last week. Mrs Cuff, sen., is the'mother of 15 children ; nearly all the uncles have served or are serving the Empire. One irrandson left with the 9th Reinforcements.