PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9361, 9 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Buchanan,/of Jersey Holme, left yesterday for Christchurchy where he will judge the Jerseys at the Canterbury ■Show. •'■/'■ Mr E. M. Menzie, headmaster at the Matarawa school, who is retiring on superannuation, was in charge of the Awahuri school in 1878—32 years ago. Miss E. Billens, at . present at the Training College, has been appointed to the Longburn school. Miss Crawford has been appointed assistant at Pohangina. Mr A. H. Kissell, of Christchurch, who has been appointed postmaster at Palmerston, is expected here next week. Mr. Ward, the present postmaster, who has been promoted to Nekon, will leave here about Monday week. Amongst those who passed the technical examination held by the Telegraph Department recently appears the name of Mr George Clinch, of the local tele-

graph office. The examination this year was considered to be of an< extra stiff nature. The pass is, therefore, all the more creditable to Mr Clinch. Mr Patrick Scally, one of Woodville'e best known citizens, passed away on Sunday morning, aged 74 years. Deceased was a contractor for railway and other work in the seventies, and continued in that business for some time. He helped to make the Hutt railway, and his ltist contract on such work was the Makotuku-Matamau section of. the Na-pier-Woodville line, which he started about 1802, and which was finished about '84 or '85. After this he settled in Woodville. ' For a number of ' years he has been a cripple through rheumatism. Patrick Nesdale, a settler from the Kimbolton district, died in a priva.to hospital in Palr/ierston yesterday. Deceased, who was aged 45 years, had been a resident of Kimbolton for about 20 years and was well-known atnd highlyrespected in the district. Deceased was a nephew of Rev. Father McManus, parish priest in Palmerston many years ago, ' and in his visits to this locality he made quite a number of friends. Mr Nesdale leaves a wife and family of twelve young children, for whom much sympathy will be felt in their sad bereavement. Mr Melton Prior, the special war artist; and correspondent, whose death was announced by cable, represented the Illustrated London News in over 24 campaigns and revolutions. His first appearance on the battleship was in the Ashantec War in 1873. He went through the Carlist rising, the Herzegovinian, Servian, Turkish, Kaffir, Basuto, Zulu, and Boer wars, the Egyptian campaign, the Soudan and Nile expedition, Burmese war, Venezuelan, Afridi war, on the north-west frontier of India, the Cretaii Insurrection, and the Siege of Ladysmith. He went to Athens with the Prince of Wales' suite in 1875, travelled with the King of Denmark's expedition through Iceland, accompanied the Marquis and Machiones3 of Lome on their first visit to Canada, was present at the Berlin Conference and at every State ceremony which occurred during his brief rests in England; also the funeral of the late, and the wedding of the present, Tsar of Russia; travelled with the present King through Canada in 1901, an'd was present at the Delhi Durbar in 1902, the Somaliland expedition in 1903, and the Russo-Japanese war in 1904.