PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr G. IT. Gothard has been reelected chairman of the Nelson Education Board.

A London message states that Lieut. John McGown, of the Devonshires, a Dunedinite, has been killed in action in France.

Mr P. A. McHardy. of "Palmerston North, has been nominated for the seat on tho Wellington Meat Export Company's directorate,' rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr Edward Newman, M.P.

Miss A. J. Stuart, daughter of the late" Bishop Stuart, after a deputational tour on behalf of the New Zealand Church Missionary Society, leaves for England this week, and expects to retuiii- to her work in Persia in October., ';..'■ *"

The death of Mr Hamish MncCunn, the well-known Scottish composer, is announced by the Times. His bestknown works were: "The Land of the Mountain and the Flood," the dramatic cantata "Lord Ullin's Daughter," and "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." He was 48 years of age.

Mr Edmund Burke, basso cantante with the Melba-Australian Opera Co., and one of the greatest favourites in English, Continental, and American operatic and concert circles, is now Captain Burke, of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, lighting somewhere in France.

The Prime Minister's son, Lieut. George Massey, who left for the front with the Rifle Brigade, has just been appointed to the position of battalion adjutant, an important, post entailing a good deal of responsibility. Until recently Lieut. Massey had been with the Rifle Brigade in 'the trenches on the Western front. He was a solicitor practising .in-, Auckland before enlisting. ;

A well-known member of the Methodist ministry, tbe Rev. Joseph Sharp, died suddenly from heart disease at his residence. Mount Pleasant road, Mount Eden, Auckland, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Sharp first accepted a position as minister in 1871, in the Primitive Methodist Church, and he had been in charge of a number of circuits, including Feilding. He retired from active service last year, but he had been in charge of the Takapuna Church since April last. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter.

On the 12th inst. there passed away at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr A. Matthews, Mount Stewart, one of Halcombe's sturdy pioneer settlers, Mr James Qtiarrie. Deceased was born at Ramsey, Isle of Man, and engaged .in farming there for many years. Hearing that the Manchester block. Feilding, was in the market, Mi- Quarrie decided to dispose of his farm and give Now Zealand a trial, and with his wife and family left the old land for London, en route for New Zealand by the ship Rakaia, arriving m New Zealand in 1878. The lato Mr Quarrie was a man of sterling worth, and whatever his hand found to do was done with all his might, and he endeavoured to fulfil all his duties firmly and truly. For some years he was asthmatical and his sight also failed, but he boro his afflictions with fortitude. The deceased leaves two daughters and throe sons—Mrs James Cameron and Mrs A. Matthews, Mount Stewart; Mr Donald Quarrie, Matata, Bay of Plen." ty; Mr John Quarrie, Tokorangi, Halcombe- and Mr Stanley Quarrie, Halcombe,