PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 432, 11 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. T. Manderson, ot Glenross. is on a saort visit: io Napier. Mr. and Mrs. Tcschemaker-Slnite, of Blenheim, are slaving at the Masonic Hot ('I. Napier. A small supply of waler has been struck at tac boring operations nt W est shore. The ('iiyzaaomonL is announced ol Miss Alidiy Ellison, of Havelock, to Air. Alan Smith, of Poukawa. Mr. and Airs. T. Crosse, ot "Kelvin drove." Dannevirke. are spending a holiday in Napier. The Hon. Dr. R. McNab. Alinister of Justice and Marine, is due in Hastings on Saturday evening. Mr. S. Afyerscough. examiner for the Trinity College of Alusic, London. has completed hi- examinations in Auckland.

Mr. S. J. Williams, who has been postmaster at Tokomaru Bay for the past nine years, has been transferred to Marton Junction. A Melbourne Press Association message states that the Indian Prince, Rajah of Piuhikcta. has married Miss Mollie Fink, daughter of the late Wolfe Fink. The Prime Alinister has been informed that Air. Malcolm Ross, the New Zealand official war correspondent. joined the forces on Gallipoli <Tn June 2-lth.- Press Association. Private H. J. Paterson, nf Dalgcty and (. o.’s Napier staff, was last even-itu-t t'ie recipient - of a pocket knife, a sleepinc-bag, and a quantity ol ci<j;i ref ins from hi' fellow workers. Mr. J. Allen Berry, ron of Mr. J. I>< riv. Napier, has passed the third section <u' the M.B. (Bachelor of Medicine). Mr. Bei r.v is at present si tidy ing at (luvs Hospital in England.

i The Rev. Mackenzie Gibson, vicar of All Saints’, Sumner, who is leaving with the Sixth Reinforcements, has resigned his charge of that elnirch. The Rev. H. Williams, who has been acting as his locum tenens, has Also as'ked to be relieved of his duties as soon as possible. Miss R. Colebrook, who has been instructress of commercial subjects at the Napier Technical College for the last IS months, has resigned her position, and proceeds to Auckland at. the end of the month, when she will take tip a position in Messrs. .Hemingway and Robinson s Correspondence School. The Aliases Lola and Mabel Miller, si-rers of Mr. J. A. Miller, of Hastings. who have been on a visit to their sister (Mrs. Bethune), left: this morning for* Wellington, where they w ill take'steamer for Alexandria, to offer their services as. nurses. The Misses Miler are defraying their own expenses. Mr. Pease, Minister of Education in the last British Government, has been granted a political pension of £l2OO a year. This is only the 16th pension that has been granted under the Political Offices (Pensions) Act, ISfifi. If is nearly 10 years since the last was, given to Mr. Gerald Balfour, who. however, resigned, it in 1911. Air. Chaplin is the only other member of the House of (Commons who at- present holds a political pension.

Mr. J. S. Burnt*, of Hastings, lias received a_ post card from his son, Private AV. 1. Burne, of tho Auckland Battalion. Private Burne saw four weeks' service at Gallipoli, and contracting lever was invalided to No. 2 general hospital at Cairo. The soldier states: "Still in isolation, but hoped to be out in a few days. It is horrible, too, all by myself. An English lady brought me some strawberries and cream ; it w a-s lovely. I don f kuii". what will become of me* v.Loii I am discliargt'd. I :im not very anxious to go buck -to lhe Dardanelles. Am very shci i of money . Have only had It) - in three months.’’