PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1703, 17 December 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Advice has been received that Mr F. D. Opic is progressing satisfactorily at Taupe,

The death is announced oh Mrs J. James, an old resident of Mangatainoka, aged .03 vears. ,

A Sycjnoy message, states that Dr Truby King-bas 'arrived in that city en route to New Zealand., - , -

A cable from London to tho Sydney Sup on November 3C stated that General Sir Archibald Murray was thrown from his horse in Stirling, Scotland, and critically injured.

Tire engagement is announced of Mws Violet Anderson, siviond daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Anderson, of Alexandra street, Palmerston North, and Mr J. Thomas, of Awapuni. "

Tho Otago University Council made the following appointments at , a meeting yesterday:—Dr. D. W. Carmult Jones,- professor of systematic medicine; Dr. Frank Fitohett, professor of clinical medicine and therapeutics, and Dr. John T. Bowie, lecturer on clinical medicine.

Cable news has Jx-cn received by the Sisters of Compassion at Island Bay that tho Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert left England for Wellington by the Bremen on December 6, and should arrive in New Zealand about tho end of January. J Mr C. F. Day, who has held tho position of stationmastcr in Palmerston North for-a number of years and has been transferred to Wanganui, relinquishes his position here next Monday. His successor, Mr J. L. Morgan, takes up his duties to-morrow. Tho position of commercial master of the Hastings District. High School is to be filled by Mr J. Arnold Hodges, at present commercial master at the Palmerston High School. Mr Hodges will take up his duties in Hustings in February next A largo number of the earliest settlers of the Manawatu district and residents of Palmerston North were present at tho funeral of the late Mrs G. M, Snelson, which took place at the Palmerston North cemetery yesterday. The _ Rev. H. G. Blackburne conducted tho impressive burial service. “

Mr A. D. McLeod, who is standing as Reform candidate for Wairarapa. has just retired from the chairmanship of the Featherston County Council, to take his seat as an ordinary member again. He has been for 24 years a member of the Council, and for sixteen years of that period ho has been chairman. At the last meeting of tho Council tho staff, including the outside men, presented Mr McLeod with a travelling rug. A Christchurch telegram announces tho death of Mrs Genera] Mite, aged forty-one. The deceased, who was three feet three inches high, and weighed two stone four pounds, made her first appearance in puhlio in 1891 in tho Isle of Man. Subsequently she appeared by Royal command at Marlborough House before King Edward the seventh, also before Royalty on the Continent. Her death occurred while boarding a tram in_ the city with her husband, General Mite, with whom she toured tho Dominion some years ago.

Born thirteen years only after the battle of Waterloo, and nine years before the accession of Queen Victoria, in 1837, Sir Matthew Henry Stephen, formerly Acting Chief Justice of New South Wales, reached his 91st year on December 5. He is a native of Tasmania., born at Hobart on December 5, 1828, the third and surviving son of the late Sir Alfred Stephen, a former Chief Justice of New- South' Wales. Called to tho Bar 69 years' ago. Sir Matthew Henry Stephen enjoys the distinction of being tho first barrister admitted under Australian law. Forty years ago he took silk, and 32 years have gone since he took his seat cn the Supremo Court bench. Ho retired in 1904, after having acted as Chief Justice.

Captain Adric Ernest Howell who is reported to have been lost in . the Eastern Mediterranean .when attempting an aerial flight to Australia, was only 26 years of age. Ho left Australia in the loth Reinforcements of the 14th Battalion. After a short period In Egypt, he volunteered for service in Franco and left with the 46th Battalion. Ho took part in some heavy fighting, and after having been appointed sniper, he was one of 200. men picked for training in the Royal Flying Corps. Ha passed through Durham and Oxford successfully, and secured a first and excellent certificate at Hendon as a pilot. After passing through various courses of training in England he left, as a scout, and served for some time in France. Later, ho was drafted to. Italy, where ho won all his distinctions. Captain Howell brought dbwn 30 enemy machines, and one of nis aeroplanes, credited with 20 victims, U preserved by the Air authorities. In addition to having been awarded the D.5.0., M.C., and D.S.C., Captain Howell was also mentioned in despatches for his work on the Italian front.