PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3021, 16 August 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Tho Hon. AY. Pember Reeves has been in very poor health for somo time.

Mr A. S. Evans, of Pahiatua, has boon advised that his brother, Privato Colman Evans, of the Third Australian Rille Brigade, is missing.

Lieut. Kelleway, the Australian cricketer, one of the crack bowlers ot N.S.W. has been wounded for tho second occasion, and is dangerously ill.

Major Frank Coen has been killed in. France. • He managed the first University Rugby team which visited New Zealand.

Captain Thomas Campbell, of the Garrison Artillery, son of Mr Neil Campbell, of New Zealand, has died of wounds.

A message from Sydney states that advice has been received that Lieut. W. T. Appleton, Melbourne manager of llio Huddart-Parker Company, has been killed in action in France.

Lieut.-Colonol Rowley, of the Salvation Army, who is being transferred Jo Australia, will bo .succeeded b.y Lieut.-Colonel.Melnncs, who is coming from England.

At yesterday's meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, the resignation <,f Miss Hayward, who has been a member of the staff for (ive years, was accepted, with regret.

Mr John Council, of Masterton, ot tbo AVelliilglon Farmers' Meat Co., has received the appointment of malinger of the Taranaki Fanners' Meat Co. works at New Plymouth.

Mrs Mary Ann Carter, aged 97 years, recently died at Dalton (New South AVales). Sb 0 bad Jived under six British sovereigns, having been born iv 1819, when Oeor_o 111. was King.

Mr George Taylor, one of Feilding's best footballers of a few years ago, and now a promicnt resident in the Raglan district, is at present on a visit to Feilding.

Mr C. E. Taylor, the very capable Clerk of tho •Court in Feilding, was absent from his accustomed box at to-day's sitting. Ho is in AVellington to farewell another brother for tho front

Private J. H. Murray, of the Eighth Infantry Reinforcements, reported *voundcd on July 16, is the eldest of three brothers, all of whom aro at the front. He was engaged in farming in the AVaikato prior to his enlistment in Juno of last year.

Lance-Corporal Holmes, killed in action, was the seventh son of Mrs J. Holmes, of Hastings. His mother received the news of his death on almost tho anniversary of the death of his brother. Private Reuben Holmes, who was killed at Gallipoli.

Mr M. L. Reading, who served his timo to the printing trade on the Feilding Star and is now editor of the Lyttelton Times, is on a- visit to Napier, attending the celebration of tho golden wedding of his parents — Mr and Mrs AY. Reading. They are old residents of Feilding and Napier.

The many friends of Eric Herbert Monckton Fetch, grandson of the late Dr. Monckton, who left with the Second Reinforcements as Q.M.S., and who has been successively promoted! to Sergt.-Major ia,nd Regimental Sergt.-Major (warrant officer), will bo interested to learn that he is now a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps.

Mr Leonard Stringer, ono of the pioneer settlers of Cheltenham, passed away yesterday afternoon, in his 80th year. ,Mr Stringer arrived in New Zealand" in the sailing ship AVaikato in 1874. He leaves a widow, five daughters, and three sons. The sons are Messrs J. Striruror (Kimbolton), L. Stringer (Hamilton), and AY. Stringer Kuiti). and tho daughters Mrs J. Ruff, and Mr.s J. Simpson (Feilding), Mrs A. Ellis (Rangataua), Mrs J. Goodin (New Plymouth), and Mi's A. Jacob (Apiti). He also leaves 41 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.

Mr AVill Hope, a black and white artist, who will bo' well remembered in New Zealand (he was on the staff of the Christchurch Press), is now doing work for the St. Louis PostDispatch, whicli is owned Ijy millionaire Joseph Pulitzer, who also owns tlio New York AVorld. During the two years Mr Hope has oeep in the United Stages he has done cartoon work for leading San Francisco and New York dailies. Mr Hope was sent to Chicago to do sketches at the greal Republican Convention, high art quarter-page contributions daily, and the whole of his ivork was published in the St. Louis paper.

Captain Donald Simson, who for a year past has identified liimself closely with the well-being of returned soldiers, and by whoso energies a Dominion Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed, and a score of clubs established throughout New* Zealand, will leave for England on September 22. He will travel to the Old Country via South Africa, and will take advantage of the time the ■steamer is at Durban and travelling to Cape Town lo visit Johannesburg, of which city ho is a. councillor. On arriving in England, Captain Simson will rejoin the King Edward Horse.

A AVellington boy now with the New Zealand Field Artillery in France, writing to his parents regarding the High Commissioner, says: "It docs your heart good to hear what tho boys havo to say about Tom Mackenzie. They say he can*t do too much for the New Zealanders, and if they know nobody in the Old Country, ho takes fJicin under his wing and gives them the timo of their lives. There is nothing too much trouble for him, and if ho sees tho chaps anywhere, whero things aro not what they ought to be. in ho goes and gives them the quiet chat. They take moro notice, of what he says than a imndred policemen. AYe all hope that when his time expires, he will stay on and see this job through. There is no man mor c popular."