PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram announces thai death of Colonel Viekers ; the-founders of the well-known armament firm.

Among the members of the Canter-* bury battalion on board the Tofua, which is to reach New Zealand about the end of i)ia month, is PrivateErnest Simson, telegraph linesman, Blenheim, who is returning invalided? after undergoing an operation in Egypt.

From a .private telegram received this morning it is learned that Mr F. F. Grady, of Wellington, and:. well known in this district, passed? away at his residency last evening. The deceased, who had been ailing for some, time, had readied tho age? of 7o years.. Mr R. McCailum r M.P., who is a son-in-law, left bj;

steamer from Picton this aftarnoonr in order to attend the funeral tomorrow. The late Mr Grady was * very prominent figure in bowling circles in Wellington.