PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL

.' Mr E. G. Stapp (formerly of Blenheim), at picsent chief clerk in tho Telegraph Office at Christchurch, has been.-appointed'postmaster at Feilding. The relatives of Sister Alice Philpotts, of Picton, received a' cable message from Cairo on Christmas Day, stating that she was about to return to the Dominion. Mr Thos. 11. Burnett, of Doyedalc, has been advised that his son, Private J. TJ. Burnett,'of the Sixth Reinforcements, died of pneumonia, at the General Hospital. Alexandria. Senior-Sergeant I>art, who was formerly in charge.of tho police probationers1 classes in Wellington, has been appointed gaoler at Dunedin. A fow years "ago .Sergeant"Dart was statioiied for-some time in Blenheim. Mr W. H. Humphreys, of Humphreys and Co., Blenheim, has received notification of the acceptance of his application for active service, and he will go into the non-com-missioned officers' camp for training for the Fourteenth Reinforcements. He has:boon ordered to parade at the dril! hall, Blenheim, on the Ilth January. I• Mr Robert Watson, of Nelson, has i been advised that his fourth son, Roy |O. Watson, of the .Artillery section :nf the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was killed in action at his gun 1 oii December 14. The deceased was employed in the Treasury Department |at Wellington, and on returning from i Samoa he ; joined tho sth Reinforcements in the 6th Howitzer Battery. He was in his twenty-second year. Mr Claude O. Pratt, cadet in the office of the Clerk of the Court at Blenheim, has been transferred to Wellington, an( j w ill leave to take up his new position hhortly. At a recent gathering of representatives of the Justice and Police Departments and members of the Bar Mr Pratt was tendered a token of esteem in the shape ef a pm^e of sovereigns, the presentation being made by Mr F. 08. I/otighnan, S.M. Expression was given to the general appreciation of the ability and courtesy with which Mr Pratt had carried -but his duties. ■'■ Tho Rev. Father P. Dore, of Foxton, is making a good recovery front, the very severe wound ho received in Gallipoli early -in' August. Father. D^iv, who was attached to the 'Auck* land. Mounted Rifles was con-, tinuous-ly busy during,the fighting of August 6 to 8, when there were. ■ unfortunately, very many wounded . requiring ministration. It was .while engaged in the front trenches at Clnmuk Bair that, he was shot through the body, the spine being seriously; injured. He was taken to England about two months ago, when it was believed that he 'could not1' possibly recover. But since tlien he has ;■ undergone an operation, with unexpected success, and the paralysis of the lower portion "of" the body has almost disappeared.. ' '..'"■■'■' . Amongst the recent visitors to Blenheim are Mi ninl Mrs C. Jones (Messrs Packer and .Tones, -of- Christ-. chui-ch) ami threegentlemen friends, who have motored from Christchurch via the West Coast. They have passed through the fampus Otira and Buller gorges, calling at Greymouth,Wept- j port, .-ind^Nelson. Hokitika and the beautiful Lsike Kanieri were visited, also the town that is famous in coalmining circles, viz.,, Donniston. Yesterday the party were the guests of I Mrliudd at his .SUnini.erlands. station. I All are very favorably impressed with I tho splendid agcicii^tiirai and_ sheep country in this province, 'aiid consider. it ilio equaJ of imything passed eh route H> evidently offers considerable tutu re prospects for the land owner, rho party intend to return to Christ- . cJiurcli via Kaikoura in'"a few days. i '- . —I——— —^M» - ' .