PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 71, 29 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Ward left Sydney for New Zealand by the Niagara last

night

Mr R. Dingle was yesterday reelected chairman of directors of the Stratford Dairy Co.

Mr J. B. Mine, M.P., arrived m Stratford by last night's mail train on private business, and returned to Wellington by to-day's three o'clock train.

Mr James Fortune, a very old and well-known resident of New Plymouth, died at his residence, Westown, yesterday morning.

Mr W. Nicholson, of the Wellington office of the Agricultural Department, has been appointed Town Clerk of th< Lower Hutt from 39 applicants.

The Canterbury Board of Governor; yesterday granted the registrar, Mr Geo. H. Mason, who is president of the Rugby Union, three months' leave of absence to accompany the New Zen land football team to America as m. ager.

Mr A. J. M. Simson, of the Patea staff of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer to the Auckland branch. Mr McQueen, of Nelson, will succeed Mr Simson at Patea.

The Rev. Doctor Brown, president of the Methodist General Conference, has departed for England to represent Australia at the British Methodist Missionary Society's centenary celebrations.

The death occurred at Pohokurn on Sunday of Mr William Wilson McKenzie, who has been in the Stratford district for some time. The interment took place at the Kopuatama Cemetery this afternoon.

Mr Michel, the defeated Conservative candidate at the Grey election is to be made a presentation. On Friday at a meeting in Greymouth subscription lists were opened in the room arid a sum of ;£2OO collected.

The Taranaki footballers who played in the North v. South Island match returned by last night's mat! train. With them was H. J. Mynott, one of the selectors of the New Zealand team.

The death of the Rev. Doctor Ross, Presbyterian minister, is announced from Sydney. He was a veteran of the 's7th Foot, and fought in the Crimea and Indian Mutiny and Maori wars. He formed one of the forlorn hope, numbering four hundred, who captured the Redan, of whom 130 were killed and 170 wounded and others captured, only 30 struggling liack.

Mr Walter Hislop, for many year? managing director o fthe Perpetual Trustees, Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, died at Dunddin on Saturday at the age of sixtysix. He was a brother of the Hon. T. W. Hislop, of Wellington. Born in Scotland, he arrived at Port Chalmers with his parents in 1856.