PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3737, 24 March 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs Henscombe, of Beekenham, Kent, has nine soldier sons, all of whom have returned fro mthe war.

Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux has offered to give his estate, known as the Cedars, Theobald's Park, as a public recreation ground for Cheshunt.

Commissioner Howard, chief of the staff of the Salvation Army, recently placed his resignation in the hands ot General Booth.

Mr Fred. Pirani has consented to a request from the Wanganui Branch of the Teachers' Institute to deliver a lecture in Wanganui on Friday night next on education at Home and in New Zealand.

On April 4, Mr Fred. Pirani will deliver two lectures in Napier, at the request of the Borough Council, one in the afternoon on education and the other at uight on a trip abroad.

" Passengers by the Sonoma," says the Samoa Times, " were loud in their praise of the plucky action "ot Captain Trask, when the mishap occurred to tbo vessel's tail-shaft at the outset of her latest voyage to "San Francisco. In order to make an examination ol tin- propellor, Captain Trask dived overboard from -ono of the ship's boats while the vessel was in mid-ocean. His first attempt was unsuccessful, but on diving a second time he obtained a good view of the propeller, an<l ascertained tho cause of the troubl. It appears that nobreakage had occurred; but that a deep-sea sounding wire which had been picked up had wound round the shaft abaft the starboard propellor."