PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 10 October 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr Kio.l. Moore, of VVungnnui, is nt picseiit a visitor to Masterton. Mt J. \V. Do Castro has been transferred from the merchandise department to tho stock department of Messrs Levin and Co. at Mastortou. Tho Rev. William Groy-Dixou, of Itnnlvn, Dunedin, has boon nominated by the Wairarapa Presbytery as Moderator of tho General Assembly for the year 1910. N A London cable reports the death tif Hiv Edward Letehworth, Grand Sccidmy of the Freemasons, who was born in ISiW. (V. H. Toogood has not yet sufficieiitl.y recovered from his recent, ii.dimposition to take his seat at the table of the Masterton County Council. A short casualty list .isMicd la 81 night iopaited that Sapper GcorgO Proelor nr.ri Private E. Lunt had died Of wounds. S Corporal Phi'. Tattle, formerly teacher-ut Longbu«h, who was killed in France, was a son of the late Mr George Tattle, who recently died at Wellington. The following have been appointed to represent th<! Wai.a a ta-Prefc-hytery at tho General Assembly to he held at Dunedin next month :• llevs. J. Cathorwood, Welch, it. Thompson, and J. McGregor, and Messrs Uagg, Kisher and Ale. Kei.iaie. I.ta-\e of "iibencc for six mouths has Heu glurtcd the Rev. J-'., «*• I llj.lei, 6f Ctu tei ten, ly tlie Waiia-]*!>&-Prcsbylery. He is acting An chaplain with the forces. Kenelyn A. Wallis (tied at tins Feathci> s ton camp .«m Aluu* day, and Private 10. Vinson itt the Ttenthnm citmj) on the same day. IJoth succumbed to cerebio spinal meningitis. ...•/ Th« remains of the latette «pcnwer F. Beard were interred in the" Mastei ton cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. A number of old settlers paid a last tribute to, the memory of tho deceased. The qoremoiiy at <ho graveside was performed by the itov. E. Godfrey. Private K, Dudley Riifseil, son of Mr J. 'M. Russell,'of South Fea'therciton,, was killed in action on Si;ptbnibei ; 29th. ... ;; ■News has . been vecaivod ' that C4pt»in .John Giahani, of Pahiatua, was killed in action on October 4th. Tho deceased was attached to the Wellington Infantry Battalion. He >leaves a widow, and three children. Sergeant "Dick" Perry, so,n Of Mr\T. T. Pony, of Sulphur Wells, JfasteWuti, was " wounded and admitted to tawpilal on September 2Shh. Second Lieutenant. Oscar Gallie, who enlisted from Masterton in the early stages of tho war, Ims been awarded (lie Military Cross. Lieut. Gallic, who is twenty-six years of age, served for some months in Samoa. Ho afterwards proooodod to Kngland, where he secured a commission in the Royal Field Artillery.