PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2999, 22 July 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. Norman R. Cloland has been appointed a member of tho Taranaki Land Board.

Mr Bclfit, sen., is lying seriously ill, and little .hope is entertained of his recovery.

Alex. Watson, the Masterton jockey who was suspended last week by the Wellington Racing Club, has enlisted for service abroad.

The latest recruits at Palmerston include Mr Henry Matthews, baker, of Feilding, and Mr Norman Wakela n, engineer, of Ercwhon.

Dr. 11. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, arrived in Rome on May 2b, and is the guest of the rector of the Irish College.

Among those duo lo go into camp next Tuesday is Mr. W. Palmerston, "known throughout New Zealand as a crack hockey player.

Miss Wvalf, secondary assistant at the District Hugh School, who has been operated on for appendicitis at the Feilding Private Hosrntal, is now convalescent, mid will soon be herself again.

Miss Kalhlyn Williams, who has been .seen frequently in pictures screened in Feilding,' was married on June 2, in California, to Mr Charles F. Eyton, a picture-producing manager. This marriage is the sequel to a 10-yoar-old romance.

Messrs R. J. AY. Stewart and H. S. I). Stewart, -of this district, were erroneously called up for the 19th Reinforcements, to go info camp on Monday." These two young men are to be called up H)l ' <HIC °' the later reinforcements.

Tho death is announced of Mr. Edwin Herbert, recently manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Marlon, and formerly manager at Bulls. Mr. Herbert', was engaged in financial journalism in London in his youth, but relinquished it and came to New Zealand, where he joined tho s,ta?f of the bank and remained in it for 40 years.

A telegram from Nelson states that word has been received that Lieut. Athol Hudson, son of the late Dr Hudson and Mrs Hudson, of Tapawera. lias been killed in action. Lieut. Hudson was an old boy of Nelson College and Waitaki High School, and was selected last year as tho Rhodes Scholar from Victoria College.

In order tv be near the hospital and moro closely in' touch with it, tho High Commissioner, with his family, has taken up his residence at Walton-on-Thaines for the summer. He has leased a beautiful old manor house with lovely grounds, where Lady Mackenzie hopes to entertain New Zealanders from time to time. The honse is called "Walton Leigh," and is the property of the Hon. Mr. Boyle, a cousin of Lady Glasgow's.