PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 2 November 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mi' W. Ash well, of Wanganui, is at present on a visit to Master ton. Ml: W. F. Sturman; formerly of "NVoodville, has been appointed Clerk at Dargavillo. Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, ALP., has returned to Carterton from his tcci'Miting trip to Taranaki. Mr J. H. Tully, of Hamilton, and formerly of Feathorston, is reported to bo in a precarious stato of health. Mr F. V. ifalhun, of tins Waingawa works, who enlisted for service, has been rejected meditill.v unfit. The death is announced by - a >le of Sir Charles H. Tuppor, afo"^ 1 Minister in tho Canadian , at tho «go or sixty years. Tho death is announced oi ai • terbury. , . . , Mr W J- Bowles, who nrnved _ Ne" S!ral«..<l in 18:5. ™<l ''•» Railway Department froin Diat year until 1899, died at. Dunedm on Sunday, aged Si. Mr Richard Godfrey, of St. John. s College, Auckland, who is shortly to LiXinoa,will S «« r J) Ashcroft as curate of St. thew's Church, Master ton. Advice has been received that i nv uiv' s « t0 i " P Malta hospital, slightly sic . Tho llev. B. 1,. /n.ornas o Sffiton Su,Kli ' y ' preached an anniversary soimoi . TlH tl l>a of £& chaplain to accompany the •- * Zealand reinforcements to The death is reported from Jm - hirnie, Wcllin-ton, of lUi in the person of Mr -i - Willis- The deceased was at f'Jio X editor and proprietor of the Ashburton "Mail. Mr George ? jlli °V, f °\' for stock agent in (] M j and Messrs Dalgety and Co., Jit , r-vother of iMr Gordon Ji»Hiot, i« inerlv of Masterton, has heen W ' Ull ' "d It the Dardanelles. He enhsted Irom Auckland. of co™.»aiS yeais. ijece.ibtu Viiu . 'Zealand Dublin and came to - when a young man. Private cablo adv.co te reived in Masterton that Ti. pFred. Youle, wlio is i ; s Manchester a^S land > 1 I':.. u -ds ' king satisfactory progress. toy ds recovery, and hopes to bo out or tho institution in a few days. Air W. Beswick, postmaster at Pahnerston North, has received. vAvice of the death of his ; La.^ Wellington. A very pretty .wedding took p nee in tho Preshyteriim Church, Teat erston, on Saturday morning at J.l «*<**«*»* s*s wore -Timet Ann Scott, dangh'to of Air and Mrs James Featherston, and John McDonald, son of Mr Colin McDonald, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cable advice has becii voceiyed Mr Frank Bladen, of South re. therston, that his brother, CaptainChaplain Percy Bladen, * a9 J.oard tho transport sunk m +h vicinity of tho Dardanelles recently, hut escaped from the wreck. - was attached to tho Sixth Brigade (Victoria). Tlio Legion of Honour has heen conferred on Lieut. Lloyd Findlay, it<rcd 20, son of Sir John lindlay, for great gallantry in tho battlo of Hulluch, on September 13tli. Inother of Sir John's sons, Lieut. Wilfred Findlay, has been promoted to tho rank of a captain (says a Wellington wire). Tho friends of Mr J. M. James, of "Woodlands, Mastorton, will rejrret to hoar that he fell froin lus horse a few days ago and sustained a fracture of a leg- Ho was a considerable distance from his homo when tho accident occurred, and it was somo time beforo ho was discovered. Ho is now making satisfactory progress. Mr E. A. Farnsworth, Mastcrtoij branch chairman of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, having; obtained lcavo of absence, is leaving with the next Reinforcements. Mr Farnsworth, who is one iff the lato Manawatu Company's -•'.i.irds, is well np in first aid work, !:aving sat for two examinations, ; -id passed with high honours. Ho h in enlisted in the Ambulance Corps a non-commissionod officer.