PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16309, 10 August 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major G. E. Gabites, N.Z.M.C., is to leave Timaru next week in order to take up duty as commandant of tho military camp at Awapuni, where the training of the Medical Corps for activo service is conducted. A Press Association meeting says that Margaret .laokson died at Auckland yesterday, aged 101 years 4 months. At a special and enthusiastic meeting of the members of the Timaru Congregational Church, it iva? unanimously decided in ask the Per. T. "\Vib=oii-Potts, op Auckland, to accept the pastorate of tho Timaru Congregational Church. lUr ,T. Farquhar, of Clayton Station, Fairl'.e, has been advised by the military authorities that his eldest son, Allan, has gained a Lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Farquhar left with tho Main Body and was present at fho Gnll'noli landing. When the troop? left for France he occupied t.} lo rank of Sergeant, and went through tho Snmms and Messinos engagements. Major James Cassidy, who has just died at BaUuirst-, New .South Wales, taw that place a settlement in tho early days, and convicts employed making the main Sydney road *to Bathurst under military rule. Ho also witnessed tho historic raid on Bathurst by Ben Hall and his gang, the arrival of tho first train to Bathurst, and a public execution on a, scaffold erected ,in the public square. He died iu his S7t.h year.