PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3022, 17 August 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Ashmead Bartlctt has gono to the Avestern front to .represent the Daily and tho Daily Chronicle.

Tho Mayor (Mr Ongloy) and Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board (Mr Pirani) will be present at the .social to Miss Shortall at Colyton to-night.

A London message states that Captain Pritchard, the famous Welsh international footballer, has died of wounds. He played in the historic match against the All-Blacks New Zealand team at Cardiff.

There arc uoav three lady churchwardens in tho Birmingham Diocese — the Countess of Bradford for Castle Bromwich. Miss Mynors for Wythall, and Mrs Parry Mitchell for Merevale.

Miss Brenda Stanleton, of Melbourne, who secured degrees in tho Arts and Science courses at the Melbourne University, has passed her final examination in domestic science at the- Toronto University.

Mr H. J. Walton, Fcilds Inspector for tho Department of Agriculture, has returned to Feilding from the Palmerston Hospital, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis.

Commander W. M. James, of the Queen Mary, avlio was reported as having goiie down with his ship in the Jutland naval battle, but afterwards appeared in the list of survivors, posed, as a child, for the famo«s painting "Bubbles," by Sir John M.illais...

Lieut/f Richard E. W. Riddiford, of Orui, Mastcrton, brother of Mrs R. L. Levin, of Feildiny, lias been awarded Military Cross for gallant conduct at the, front, in France. Ho is the first Wairarapa, soldier to win the much-coveted modal.

Madam Fierz, of Cairo, and her little son and daughter, are going to make a long stay in Wanganui. M. Fi«rz is an engineer under the Egyptian Government, and a great many of the Ncav Zealand mounted men oavc a considerable debt of gratitude to tho Fierz family for the liberal entertainments provided for them for the last two years and the number of wounded men who Avere guests there for weeks at a time. The daughter Avill go to the Wanganui Girls' College and the son to tho Harworth school.

Lieut. Gordon Harper, avlio has died of Avounds in Egypt, Avas 31 years of age, and a son of Mr George Harper, barrister, of Christchurch. Ho enlisted as a private in the Main Expeditionary Force. His brilliant work at Gallipoli with the Mounted Ma-chine-gun Section earned him the coveted D.C.M., and shortly after lie was given a commission. The late Lieut. Harper has tAvo brothers at the front, one of whom. Captain Robin Harper, lias also gained the D.C.M. A. third brother, Mr E. T. Harper, leaves for Trentham in a month's time.