PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3293, 16 July 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The five sons of the Bishop of Derby are all in the Army.

An old Carterton settler, Mr Joseph Diamond, is dead, at the age of 84 years.

E. V. Freed, awarded the Military Cross, is a son of Mir E. Freed, bridge engineer, Otago. He was born in Ghristohurch.

Mr J. H. Anderson, Acting-Swe-dish Con_ul-in-Chief for Australasia, is at present making a tour to all the Swedish Consulates in tho Dominion.

■Captain J. Garfield iCrawford, a recipient of the Military Cross, is an old Timaru boy. He left the Dominion as senior medical officer with the First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade.

Mr F.. V. Knappjhead teacher of the Nelson Girls' Central School, has received word that his eldest son, Sergeant Russell Knapp, was killed in action. He was 21 years of age.

Second-Lieutenant Athol R. M'Isaac, New Plymouth, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Messines.

Mr William Coad, a leading business man at the Thames, where he had resided" for over 40 years, is dead, aged 60 years.

Private Louis Cheeseman, killed in action, was one of New Zealand's brilliant young marksmen. He was born in Blenheim, and was a son of Mr H. C. Cheeseman, the well known pigeon and rifle shot.

Mr It. Batley, of Moawhango, ono of fhe best known landowners on the Main Trunk, line, died in a private hospital in Wellington on Saturday morning.

A message from Petrograd states that the comma ml or of Alexandra PahifP reports that the ex-Czarina is unable to walk, her legs being swollen, following upon an attack of heart affection.

Sir George Clifford, who has had an unbeaten, record as chairman of the New Zealand Racing Conference for the past 20 years, has been reelected for a further term of office.

Corporal C. G. Sylvester, of the Wellington Harbour Board's mechanical staff, of which he was the chief, has died of wounds on active service, aged 40 years.

Sir Arthur Currie, the now commander -Of the Canadian force in France, is married to a sister of Mrs Angus Gordon, of Papatoetoe. The maiden name of Lady Currie and Mrs Gordon was Chaworthmusters, their father's home being Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire.

At the Council of Agriculture, the following membei'g were elected to the executive: North Island, Messrs J. H. Perrett, G. Hunter, N. P. and D. McGregor. South Island, Messrs Turnbull, ,H. A. Knight, and J. Deans.

Cr. H. Smart, chairman of the Pohangina County Council, who met with an accident some days ago, is still indisposed. He was unable to take bis seat at the meeting of the Council on Saturday. It will bo somo weeks before he will be able to get about again.

Lieut. R. C .Abernethy, brother of Miss Abernethy, editress of the Woodville Examiner, has been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry during tiro Messine offensive. He is a son of the Rev. C. Abernethy, of Papanui, Christchurch.

Mr G. A. Giller, who has been in the employ of Messrs J. G, Ward and Co,, of Invercargill, for the past 17 years, has been appointed manager of tlie newly-established Feilding branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Company (late Atkinson's)..

Newscomes from Vancouver of Miss Mabel lleade, who is very-well known at Lower Hutt and Lyall Bay, sister of Mrs Richard Cobbe, of Feilding and the Wanganui River. Some little wliile ago she joined the uurslug staff of the Vancouver General Hospital, and her many friends here will be pleased to know that she has now graduated there. After spending a holiday? With her people, Miss Reade will probably go to France.