PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 2 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. W. C. F. Carncross was yesterday elected Speaker of the Legis lative Council and congratulated by Sir Francis'Bell and the members! '

Private A. J. Firmerty, of Te Wera, who was reported wounded on 11th October, is now reported admitted to hospital, England, suffering from gunshot wound of the left arm and hand.

The death occurred unexpectedly at «n early hour on Wednesday* of Mr Arthur Bunny, solicitor and Crown Prosecutor for the Wairarapa, at the age of seventy-three.

The Rev. T. H. C. Partridge, M.A., has been appointed to the OhuraWhangainomon.'i Mission District, in the place of the Rev. H. W. Smith, who lias removed to Hamilton.

The following Justices of the Peace have been appointed:—Messrs P. Drake, Okoke; E. F. H. Hemingway, Patea; P. Ross, Te Anga, Awakino; R. Were, Mangaehae, Awakino. :

Mr R. Masters, chairman of the Taranaki Education Board, leaves by the mail train on Monday for Wellington on business in connection with educational matters.

Advice has been received that Trooper E. J. Kirk wood, who is suffering from wounds and shell shock is returning to the Dominion by the next transport leaving Egypt.

Ensign Campion, of the Salvation Army, who has been visiting the South Island on Army work for some time, arrived back in Stratford last evening, and was welcomed by a large number of friends.

The Rev. T. H. C. Partridge, of Matamata, Wakato, has been appointed to take charge of the Whangainomona and Ohura districts, apd will take up his duties early in November. It is his intention to reside in Whangamomona. Bishop Averill, of Auckland, visits this district during this month.—Whangamomona correspondent.