PERSONAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 7672, 19 January 1918, Page 3

PERSONAL

.Mrs Johnson, Waitohi, has- received a cable that her sou, Private V. It. Johnson, who was seriously ill, was progressing 'fa,vou/rab|y. Mr C. Looker, King street, T«i rnttka, has received a cable stating that his son. Private M. J. Looker, had boon admitted to -hospital jin Prance on December 27, suHenng Horn diarrohea, severe, Mrs Webb received .word agaiiu oji Tlj,ii.rsday that; *r second tfo/n, Sergeant A,. C. E. Wctjb, opt) off three 'brothers of the Main Eddy, is returning home early in February. Mr Robert Morrison, Geraldine, has received a letter from Miss Lily Slowart, late of Woodiljury, who left the district some) years ago, and. was well known lo the residents. Since receiving the letter, which was, watte* in August, word has been received of the death ot the lady, who was daughter of Mr James Stewart, of Woodbury. The deceased lady, accompanied ’by her sister, the late Miss Ruby Stewart, wont to- South Africa a few years ago, and the latter died there about a year ago. Both girls were educated at the Woodbury School ahld t'Ho Girls’

High Schooi at Timaru. Mr '"^tewart 'is an o d resident of South Canterbury, having Worked in Ihc Woodbury bush, in 1-869. lie, later toojc up a farm in the Woodbury district. Tito Misses Stewart wi)re; connected with the Soudan United Mission, and their sphere, of labour was 1 im N(oi';ttiern Nigeria, inßritish West Africa. They joined tlta. Mission about; five years ago. Miss • 'Lily, in her letter "to i\ir Morrisou - , mentioned that fofcr sister Ruby's ; grave was at Rujmaska, a lonely spot on the Binwob riVer), which .is' a. huge tributary of the Niger. Miss Lily was to have been married two months after. 1 thtf date of her letter. Her -brother Leslie lias been killed in the fightiag in France, and has bogn. buried at Esta'ircs. Advice has been ( -received' by tno V.M/.C.A. National' . Headquarters that E. . A. Kcnner, of Auckland, on,, of the Now Zealand. Ficl'd Secred'aries in charge of Red Trinrigltv Hut in France, has been slightly wounded in the head while on service for SNe-.v Zealand's soldiers. Tlic following were amongst the holiday guests at the Crown Hotel, (.!enddine :—Dr and Mrs Volekman, Sumner ; Mr an*'Mrs O'Niel, Christclmrch ; Mr and Mrs Morgan, Christclmrch ; Mr and Mrs Young and family, Timaru ; Mr and Mrs Leonard and family, Timaru ; MiAnderson, Melbourne; Mis; Clarice Cheyne, Mospicl ; Mr Seaton, Christchurch ; Mr Elfick, Christchurch; Mr Cunningham.