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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 5

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Brigadier-General Birdwood, of the Australian Forces, has been promoted to the full rank of General. Mr .J. Hurley, who has been an inmate of the Pulmerston North Hospital for some time, has now left the" institution'and is making good progress towards recovery. Captain Frank Hurley, who was photographer to the last Shackleton expedition, has been appointed official photographer to the Australian Forces in France. Mr J. R. Hosking, son of his Honor Mr Justice Hosking, is at, present serving on the Western front, with the Australian artillery. Mr Hosking was wrongly drawn in the twelfth ballot, Mr J. 11. .Simmons, of 2 Cuba street, has received a cable from his son, Lieut. W. 11. Simmons, sent from the battlefield in France, advising that both he and his brother. Private C E. Simmons, were well. The Rev. Alfred North, who is retiring from the Baptist ministry after 49 years' continuous service, is to be given a public farewell at Auckland. A presentation will be made, subscriptions to which are being received from all parts of the Dominion. The Defence Department advises that; 63,152 Private 11. Haycock, E Company, Thirty-first Reinforcements, died in Featherston .Military Hospital at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. The certified cause of death is "cetebro-spinal meningitis and asphemia." The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W. P. Massey* received a cable message from the General in Command at Cairo yesterday skiting thai Mr J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, who was wounded in tho recent lighting in Palestine, io progressing favour- , ably. " ' ' I Mr E. 11. Lawford, manager of the Dannevirke branch of the Union Bank of Australia, left yesterday for Tiinaru, where he temporarily relieves the local manager, who is ill. Mr Lawford will be temporarily* replaced in Dannevirke by Mr Caghill, of Auckland. Corporal 11. D. Skinner, D.C.M., who received his discharge some time ago, is nqw ..engaged ,in,the study, of anthropology i in London "(says tho Palmerstonian). Wo' understand his work has been considered important-enough- to be honoured with a' leading article in the. London Times.' The Ma'nawatu Herald reports'the death of Mrs Howan, wifo of Mr S.'Howan, af

the ago of 72-years. The sad event took place at her daughter's residence, Hamilton, : on Friday'. The, Lite,' Mrs. Howan came to Foxton about 58 (years ago, and lived here with her husband up till their removal - to Wellington a few years ago. \ The death is announced of another old colonist jn the. person of Mrs Sarah Lorriniore Craig. The.late Mrs Craig has been ailing for,some,,months, and died at the* residence ol' her son-in-law, the Rev. J., A..Brown, Kirwee, Mrs Craig-arrived in . New Zealand with her late husband, Thomas Moore Craig, in the sailing vessel Caroline 40 years ago, and took up residence at Featherston and later at Grcytown Tho four candidates for the Rhodes Scholarship this year will be as follow: Auckland, Sec-Lieut. N. A. .lory; Victoria "(Wellington), Lieut. 11. A. Mackenzie; Canterbury, Lieut. R. J. Richards: Otago, Lieut. J. W. llinton. The selection will be mado at a meeting of the Board of Selection, to be held at Government House at 10 a.m. on November 27. John Coulihard, the victim of the sensational holdup and robbery ut Runanga last week, was- about 26 years of age and a native of Brunnerton. He was a son of. the late John Coulthard, and resided with his mother at Runanga. Ho was the only son and a blacksmith by tradeMr William Hall, who still lies in a precarious condition, has been in the State Mine office, in which he held a responsible position since its inception., ■ His wife and three children reside at Runanga. Private A. C. Graham (Canterbury Infantry), awarded the Military Medal, is "Alex." Graham, the well-known. South Westland mountain guide, and tho youngest brother of Mr Peter Graham, head guide at the Hermitage. He left as a member of the Ambulance, corps of the 22nd Reinforcements. In the cable messages a few duvs ago it was mentioned that "a former guide at Mt. Cook was among the bearers, whose courage and endurance saved many lives." .It is evident that this, reference was to Private Alex Graham. A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnised in St. Paul's' Methodist Church, on October*.24th, when John Gibson Uearlove, fourth son of Mr J. Dearlove, To Aroha, was married to Grace, second daughter of .Mr R. Gordon, Church street. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Harold, and the bride by her sister, Edna. The reception was afterwards held at the residence of the bride's parents. The cake, which was of four decks, was made, by Mrs H. Cook, aunt of the bride, und tho bouquets were made and presented by Mr A. Shailer, Scandi'a street. Mr A. W. Richter, of the Levin staff of Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., who goes into camp to-day, has been the recipient of several presentations. Yesterday at tho Levin cattle fair Mr Prouse, on behalf of the settlers of the district, handed Mr Richter a cheque as a token of their goodwill. Mr O. II Porritt informed the recipient that his position would be open for him on his return." The stuff of the firm made him the present of a wristlet watch, and tho Levin Club a purse of sovereigns. On Monday night Mr and Mrs Richter were tho guests of the Levin Lawn Tennis Club at a sociaU The death has occurred in Dunedin, at tho age of 91, of Mr J. R. Hooper, who had had an adventurous career. The late Mr Ilooper was born in London in 1826, and lived during fivo reigns. He received his first business training in the office of his father, who was at that time senior partner in tho firm of Messrs Willis, Gann and Co., which ran the first sailing ships out to New Zealand, and which was really the nucleus of the present Shaw, Savill and ■ilbion Company. In 1848 ho went to Mexico, with his elder brother, and after being connected with mining operations there for about a year he returned to England He arrived at Lyttelton by the ship Duke of Portland in 1851. After being in Japan for some time, he returned to New Zealand in 1874, the voyage occupying nine months, and he remained in Dunedin untill his death. To-morrow two display tables at Collinson and Cuntiinghame's will be devoted to new blouses for morning wear in check and stripe zephyrs, spot and plain prints, and plain crash ; o.s. sizes are 6s 6d, 6s 9d, 7s 3d, 7s lid; women's sizes 3« Hd, 4s.lid, 5s lid, 6s 6d, 6s lid. This will be an unusually comprehensive showing of workaday blouses of wide interest. See Watson Bros.' new display of dinner ware direct from the world's leading makers; the latest and most artistic designs at low prices. .W»«~"u Bros.. P.N.-Advt.