PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 62, 14 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr E. G. Stapp, chief clerk of the* telegraph branch of • the Christchurch Post and Telegraph Office,'has been, appointed to (the position of postmaster at Feilding. Last week; Mi' Stapp received , a presentatibnj from the Christchurch staff of a ",,'. marble clock for himself and a silver!' cake dish for Mrs Stapp. A private cable message was :r*&ceived in Christchurch stating' that Captain L. iG. D. Aclarid had! beeffl further promoted to be major. He left- New Zealand1 with the"'.Main ;Es-' petitionary Force' as isecorid lieu''teriant. and" has since been prombted! ' ■ through the various-steps, as' well' aa being' mentioned in despatches ; and V gaining the Military Cross, . •■ , " In connection with the approach* ing centenary of Mrs John Vile, sen., of Pahiatua, it is mentioned that thei venerable lady was present in London on the occasion of tho coronation) of Queen Victoria. She came to "Newi Zealand in the Anne '.Wilson in 1856.This ship was known as the "starved ship," as many of the immigrants, were on the verge of starvation when,' the vessel arrived at Wellington. Inr dignation meetings were h old in Wellington, "and. the skipper of the vessel Avas lucky in effecting his Escape. Mrs ■Vile, vrizh her late husband and!' family, spent her first night in Newt Zealand in a barn at the Lower Hutt.: Mrs Vile has three sons, and one^ daughter living,, beßides about forty) gra n dichild'rep, sixty great-grand^ child^-en and several great-great-1 ' grand'-childi-en. "':

, A private teleerram received in Wellington on Friday announced the* death in Auckland on TMiv.sday night of; Mr Edward Georgo Britton Moss, barrister and solicitor, who at one time represented Ohinemu ri.. in, the» TTous? of Representatives. The deceased was about sixty y^nrs of age, a.rid the second son of the late Mr'F- : J. Moss, of Auckland, vfho sat in! Parliament as.member for.Po.rnell, fbi* many years. Mr Edward Moss was born on the island of St. Helena. li* 1859 he arrived in the colony with his parents by the ship Zealandia, and? was educated at the (Dunedin. High: School and the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell. H© was articled to JMr Andrew Beveridgey Provincial iSolicitor, Auckland, andi\ was admitted to tho Bar on October loth, 1877. He afterwards practised! at Greymoutli, Tauranga," Paroroa, and Auckland. His death was noti altogether unexpected, as he had! been in indifferent health for the pasts three or four years. Mr Moss has left a widow, sister of Pap tain G. Tw Hull, of Wellington.