PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Victor [Wk has received it, cable message from lirisbane .staling that -Mr Clement Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, who is in Queensland on lecturing tour, iu seriously ill. Mr J<\ H. Taylor (assistant at the Mataura Dairy K'art-nry) has been ■ selected out of !2.'S applications for the ■ position <>l ehecsomaker for the Tutu- ■ rau Dairv Factory Company, Ltd. Major--'General Kir Alexander J. (iodi ley, K.C.M.G., liati notified to the commanding officer of the 7th {Southland) Mounted Hifles his acceptance of the position of honorary loloncl. of the regiment. The oflicers, non-commissioned officer.-; and men of mo regiment, are to be congratulated upon having such a distinguished soldier as their lion, colonel distinguished both lor his career as a. soldier, and tin* successful manner in which he has inaugurated the new defence scheme in the Dominion. Mr P. Mart-ell, who las been accountant ill the. Bank of Australasia {Gore) during the oast IS months. haft received notice of-his transfer lo" Victoria. Mr Martell, who has been on the bank's stall' in .\e,,v Zealand for a little over six years, will leave for • Melbourne on .luiy where he will join the staff of the lead ol'lice of the bank in thai city. During his residence at Gore Mr Martell lias proved himself an efficient officer and the bank's clients will regret to lose hu services. Miss Eliza, Morley, a very old resident of Wyndham, parsed away ,at, her residence, Cardigan Hoad, on Monday last, at the age of 76 years (states the 'Farmer'). The deceased lady, who was born, at Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, came out to New Zealand M.'i voars ago, to join her brother, the late. Mr Joseph Morley (a Crimean veteran), who then kept a blacksmith shoo here. In, Mr Morley's death some 22" or 23 years qgo, Miss Morley decided to remain at "Wyndham, and here she remained to the end —a thrifty, unassuming! woman, with the respect of all who knew her. Notwithstanding her weight of years, MiVs Morley enjoyed good health, and her end came peacefully. She is survived by a neiee (.Mrs f-iaimiei Kobinison), who with her husband and young family came out from England in recent years to Wyndham, and whose care and attention were a comfort to the ol'l lady, and by an adopted son, Mr : Joseph Petersen, of Halclutha, also by 1 several relative.- in 'he Old Country. ' 'Hm funeral look place on Wednesday ' afternoon, the service being conducted 1 by .Mr A. AV. Mulligan, Anglican lay ' reader. 1