PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14128, 3 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Pn\ate Cannington, a returned solw J 7 s ™ade-q»ick and .good progress towards iho restoration of his hWltli at S? ST" HofP. ltaI ' 7^ nd * expected to get out for a drive this after neon..

Air E. 8.-Burdekin, formerly of Nel-

Cabled advice has been received in

The de^th occurred at Glasgow in May of- Mrs Robert Buchanan i un aessie^'. Madachlah), the well-known Scotteh vocalist, who made a concert tour through New Zealand some years

are due m Wellington to-day. The Sd^hriT+f 9 °f i 3?. and Ml" s Mawson and - b heir three children Miss Wright, and Mi w Prenuce, and "tney are return! ing to-Aiew Zealand on long furlough

i The Rev. J. A. Luxford, CM G cnaplam to_ the^ New Zealand Forces' who left with- the Mainvßody of the Expeditionary Force,, and was wounded on feaJhpou, losing a leg by amputation as a result, has been * appointed: principal chaplain on the New Zealand Headquarters Staff m London Bo will reside at Walton-on-Thames

The death took place at Trentham oh Thursday of Private Percy Clements a retnraed soldier. Private Clements yfll £ ."P 0™^ 01!") was a member or the iiMid Reinforcements, and was wounded on Gallipoli, subsequently returning to Wellington on May 15th by the_Wiilochra for duty. He reported: at llenuiam Camp on June 19th and developed pneumonia, from which he cued, jpne deceased's nextHjf-kin is his sister, JarsS. Hkusen, HoHtika

A xjes-s Association telegram from V.nnsjcnnreh announces the death of 3H- l^omas Edward Jackson, who liad been a master at the Boys' Hi^h School since 1894. He was i BAd London University.

?£ W-iv rll£ 10llSh s oldest identities —Mr WJham Sowmaa—passed away ab Blenheim <m Wednesday evening, at the out to .New Zealand m 1853, and had1 been resident in the Nelson and B enW dwincte for practically half a eel

Archbishop ."Redwood has receive/ copies of seveml MiLanese ne™4s iH To££?V h£- wondt rful »«^?SS ands, Blenheim, and Toowoomha Queensland, and his wife, w ho less, than two years ago went to Milan to. atudy singing with a view to an operatic career. They appeared under the names of Carlo Zelandini and MarS

Ira of ath^ ccl!"ied o 9n- Sunday morn, J' nk^ th° kelson Chief Post A '£ n deceased was a native of A>aioa, and was a son of Mr W *lml> formerly Town Clerk of that bor~ g /'? Ed the Postal service t iere a^d afterwards was at Christiijtteloon. He was nest stationed at Aapier, vnence he went to Blenheim as accountant. After filling an 2 position ■ at : Christchurch fo? a time he receive-] hi* appointment to NelsoS ab ol3? w 0 years ago Ho was au c n-vstosuii mpporter. of -hockey, and did all ho could in Nelson to get bom £horn ho, know to ta.lre up the -We S? <-£f *o joined the Nelson wTw^S Since suffering a stroke- ™ health had not been good Mr Sims, woo was a capable and respite--? oHit-et, .Jenvos a widow lut no family