PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14304, 5 January 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reporter] at Vienna of Richard Strauss^ the composer.

The death is announced- at London of Mr T. Fenwick. Harrison, who gave £50.000 to the Kitchener Memorial Fun<i. .

The Hon. James Allen was to proceed from Blenheim yesterday by motor via Kaikoura to Waiau, to Hanmer on Saturday, and to Christchurch on Sunday. On Monday he will take.train for Duhedin. He expects to be back in Wellington on Thursday of next week.

Lieutenant Robert Spence, who has been visiting the West Coast; has returned to F-eatherston. The lieutenant, who is a native of Rimu, sacrificed a lucrative legal practice in Stratford in order that he might "do his bit" for the Empire.—Greymouth "Star."

Mrs Small, sen., of Toi Toi Valley, whose death was announced yesterday, was in-her 92nd year, and was a native of Curryrwill, Somersetshire. She came to New Zealand in the ship Queen of the Avon about 59 years ago, and had been a resident of Stoke and of Nelson ever since. Mrs Small, who was of a ,kindly, genial nature, leaves a family of three —Mrs Franzen, of the Port, Mrs C. Thompson, of Grovetowii, Marlr-o.rough, and Mr A. G. Small, of Toi Toi Valley—together with 15 grandchildren and 19 great-gi andchildren.

Mr. Reginald J. Foss, headmaster of the Carterton District High School, has received word that his brother, Lieutenant J. Beart Foss, of tte Second (Auckland) Battalion, was killed while leading a bombing party told off to meet a determined coiyiter-attack of the enemy: Lieutenant Foss 3 leaving with the Main Body, served throughout the Gallipoli campaign with the Weir lington Battalion. He had seen service .in South Africa in 1899-1902, but when war broke out, not waiting to qualify for a commission, he enlisted in the ranks, subsequently gaining his commission in the field, and • being transferred to the Auckland regiment.

Private advice has been received by Mr. R. Gutteridge, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Auckland, to the effect that his only son, SecondLieutenant R. Howard Gutteridge, was instantly killed by a shell on" October Ist, the date on which he was originally reported missing. Lieutenant Gutteridge was in England at the time war broke out, and he enlisted with the Artists' Corps. He. was an expert in signalling and was kept in England ,[ in instructing and other work, until the autumn of this year. In the meantime Lieutenant Gutteridge had joined the Queen Victoria Riffes, 9th London Regiment.