PERSONAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13934, 17 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

• A cable message fronf Pctrograd states that the commander of ihc Alepiulra Palace reports that the ex-Czarina tyuni able to *walk, as: her legs are swollen/ following heart-affection., \ ; In the casualty list published! morning, the following.names of locat <u (interest appear: Killed in acHOn—un Kemp,' Colin (Mrs James Kemp, T den, mother); McCarthy, Eugen<T(Mis9 ; f .) McCarthy, Gleuavy, sister), • -I The Church; Envoy announces'' thd death at"Hobart of the Rov/T. C, Bur-.;; gess, who laboured for six years at Kurow, and then at Nas'eby, He was l( ordained by the Primate at Bunedin in 1905, IleVas in his forty-ninth year. , , Mr J. G. L, Kerr, Mayor of Wai>... I kouaiti, has receivedword that his son, Lance-Corporal Wilfred Kerr, is return* ing by a hospital ship. He went away with the first Liverpool Rifles, over two . years ago, and has served in Egypt-andi France. Ile'J was reported dangerously; wounded in action on the Belgian frontier. ' . ■

"I cannot conclude" (said Sir George Clifford in his address ,to the Racing Conference at Wellington), "without ex-' pressing the sincere regret which must be felt by every member of this qoijfyr-" cuco at-the decease of Sir GeorgeLean. He was universally respected- 1 " ■and admired, both within this confer- - ence anil in his public life. "Withstrong,Convictions, lie It new how to support tlji'ni -without offence,. On the turf- 1 - his name was without reproach, and it" will be long, indeed bpfore the owner of« 'Lady Emma' ceased to be remembered': as an example for all sportsmen to fol-" low. " Sir George Clifford referred also ■ to the death of Mr Duncan Rutherford. ' The conferences passed a resolution of :- sympathy with the relatives of the de*. ceased sportsmen mentioned. —— Vpv;