PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10164, 1 September 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

I Mr S.'lnder, who for some time was p»*>sl master at Palmerstort North, and is now L") epector of Post Offices, is paying an officia visit to the local office. Mr Alex. Anderson has made a gooi I recovery from his operation fqr aypendi eitis. having been discharged from the hospital this week. A London cable states that tfecit. A. F Haiding, the Welsh international footballer who settled in New Zealand, lias beet j wounded at the Dardanelles. Mrs I. Essex, who underwent an operation in a local private hospital on Mem* J day, was reported to be making satisfactcry progress to-day. Her manv friends will hope to hear of her earlv and complete recovery. The following ladies have very creditably passed the examinations for home nursing, conducted by Dr. Stowe. on August 23: Mesdemcs Hunter. Knowles. Misses Arnott. Boon, BurreJl, -Cbllingwood. C. Grant. K. Grant. Grove. Harris, Beaton, Hodder, King. Lundey, McEwen. McMurrav, Neilsen. Park. Spooner. Symes and Weston. Theso ladies are requested to attend at the usual time and place next Thursday. Palmcrston is always pleased to hear of the advancement of its young men in any walk of life. * Two promising members of the legal profession w.to admitted as barristers of the Supreme Court by his Honor Mr Justice Edwards at the recent sittings—Mr F. J. Oaklev. on the motion of Mr J. P. Innes. and Mr \V. Lyon, on the motion of Mr H. G. Fletcher. Mr Oakley is a partner in the firm of Innes and Oakley, and Mr Lyon. who was for many years a teacher at'the College street school, is practising in Woodville. Referring to the late Sergeant Dewar. a Wellington contemporary says he was a splendid man in every sense of the wordstraight and strong, and one who commanded tlif respect of all who knew him. As a footballer he has had few equals in New Zealand at wing-forward, where he played a clever "heady" game. He was always a reliable plr.yer. a hard man to beat, but one who played the cleanest of games. The late Sergeant Dewar was aim a boxer of no mean order, lie was an engineer by trade. ar.d w is nged about thirty years. Advice was received by Mr A. Roe yes tcrday that his nephew, Sergt. Roydcn McDowell, had been wounded on August 14,

after being in the lighting- from the first landing. Sergt. .McDowell went away with the main body as a private, and was piomotcd to be sergeant after the heavy fighting in July. Apropos of the incident described by Private Bell in yesterday's issue, in winch a tug broke away and collided with a transport, letters from Sergt. McDowell stated tiiat he. with three men, were deputed to locate the tug. This they succeeded in doing, though a very rough sea wag running ar, the time. Yesterday, at All Saints' Church, Ponsonby, Auckland, the marriage took place yery quietly, owing to the bridegroom leaving for active service shortly, of Sergeant George Massey, solicitor, of Auckland, and now of the Trcnthaiii Regiment, youngest n>n of the Right Hon. the Prime -Minister and Mrs Massey, to Miss Dora Rebecca Grainger, daughter of the late Mr A. U. Grainger, well known in Auckland as the head, for some years, of the firm of Hurst and Co. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Archdeacon CJdcr. Mrs George Massey will make her home at Palmerston North during the time her husband is in camp. Yesterday's jist of wounded contained the names of several men from this district. Troopers Roy W. 0 Dalrymple is a member of the well-known Bulls family. Trooper R. C. Fullcrton-Smith, of Marton, now wounded, had a brother killed at the beginning of August. Trooper David Horn is a son of Mr R. L. Horn, of Manakau. Trooper lercy Richardson, son of Mrs George Richardson, of Hokowhitu, is a well-known member of the local Druids' lodge, which ha? now had seven members wounded. Trooper 11. V. Sutton, son of Mr L. Sutton, of Hawke's Bay, who is also wounded, was a storekeeper at Rongotea before going to the front Another Palmerstonian—Trooper V» .1 C ! ark ; a son of Mr W- B - Clark, or liulls, is also wounded. Trooper Clark who joined the First Expeditionary Force' was on the staff of Messrs Gol'd'ingham and Beckett, Ltd.. when he enlisted, being one of six of that firm's staff who are serving in the Expeditionary Forces. Ladies doing much crochetting find their cotton is continually being lost—the expenditure of 3d buys a Princess Marycrochet companion in nickel-plated finish. This chatelaine carries the spool and is pinned to the 'dress with nickclled safetypin and chain. With the companion is a crochet needle and guard. The whole is self-contained and worth a good deal more than the low price charged.—Advt.