PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 5 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Coleman left by this morning's mail train for Auckland.

Dr. Milroy is at present in a hospital at Hawera, where he, successfully underwent.an operation on Tuesday last for appendicitis. His. practice is at present being conducted by Dr. Mary Dowling.

By the death of Mr Peter Cheyne, of Lisnoe Avenue, Auckland, in his 90th year, the Dominion has lost an early settler who was at one time a prominent schoolmaster. Mr Cheyne was born at Aberdeen in 1827, and he arrived at Wellington in 1851 with his wife, having made the voyage in the ship Clara.

Mr Thomas Avery, of New Plymouth, has received a cable yesterday from his son, Trooper Ted Avery, who is still in Egypt with the New Zealand Mounteds. He has been suffering from malarial fever, and is now in the Aotea Convalescent Hospital at Cairo.

Major Toomer and Staff-captain Thurkettle, of the Salvation Army, arrived by the mail train this morning. The Major, who has become especially popular with Stratford audiences, will preside at a Birthday Social to-night at the Army Hall and also distribute prizes to Sunday School scholars.

There was a very impressive Memorial Service in memory of the late Corporal Frank Marfell. at Toko Road, on Sunday last, the schoolroom, where the service was held, being crowded. The Rev. C. W. Howard (Vicar of Stratford), preached an appropriate sermon, and suitable hymns wero sung. A large number of sympathetic friends wero present from Stratford, and the surrounding district, to pay their tribute of respect to one who had died in the service of his country. Mrs Maunsell presided at the organ, and at the close of the service, played "The Dead March in Saul." Mr E. Marfell and his two sons were present.

The interment of the late Peter

Hancock took place at the Stratford Cemetery yesterday, when in addition to the members of the family, there were a large number of people in motor cars and vehicles present. Those acting as pall-hearers were old friends of the deceased, namely Messrs R. H. Robinson, S. H. James, X. J. King, and George Burgess. Representatives were in attendance from the Stratford County Council and other public bodies, also many friends from Cardiff and the surrounding district, all of whom had been associated with deceased for years past. The hearse was hidden amid a wealth of beautiful wreaths, evincing the universal esteem in which the deceased was held. The rites were ' impressively performed by the Rev. R. 13. Tinsley.