PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 4 February 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr W. H. Bird, of A watoitoi, Master to n, wiio appeared before the Military Medical Board on Saturday was classed C2. Mr Joseph, manager of Messrs Hood Bros.' Master ton branch, has been classed by the Medical Board as unfit for active service. A New York cable message announces the death of John L. Siillivan, at one time the world's champion pugilist. Mr William Ashby, a gentleman whose life has followed closely the gold-tide of old Thames, has passed away in Auckland. He was uearly 82 years old. Miss A. M. Brown of the staff of the Masterton District High School, who underwent an operation on Thursday last for acute appendicitis, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. The death is announced from Dnnnevirke of Mr George Jiovejoy, at the age of 51 years. Deceased was born at Oxford, and arrived in New Zealand 47 years ago with bin parents, settling in Wellington. At the age of 76 years there died at Grovetown last week an old Marlborough identity in the person of Mr William Jones. The late Mr Jones was a native of Herefordshire, England, and was born in 1842. The Rev. J. W. Burton, <ne time of Masterton, but now iki Melbourne, has (says the "Methodist Times") just secured his B.A. degree at the Melbourne University. His record was of unusual brilliance, as he se-'-* cured three first classes in pljlisdphy * and honours in advanced logic. Official cable news from Delhi reports that Lieutenant B. E. Tibbs, attached t<rtW Inland Water Transport Service in Mesopotamia, is missing, and is believed to have been drowned on 9th January. He is -a. son of the headmaster of Auckland Grammar School, and was in the Imperial service in Mesopotamia for two years. There was a large gathering at the social to Trooper Butler in the •> Gladstone Public Hall on Friday evening. The dancing wds" enjoyed, the floor being in good order, and the music excellent. Supper was the usual Gladstone standard of hospitality. At a convenient interval a presentation was made to the young soldier, who carries with him the best wishes of all in the future.... The death of Colonel Arthur Hume, which occurred at his residence, Wellington Terrace, on Saturday t at the age'of 77, removes one of the" oldest of New Zealands public servants and a familiar figure in the life of (Wellington. He had been in foiling health for some months, but recently heart trouble developed. Colonel Hume, who wals formerly in the 7&th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, was appointed Inspector of Prisons for New Zealand on the 7th JuJv, 1880. In a recent casualty list appeared the name of Lance-orporal Charles Gomer Jenkins- (next-of-J;in, Mrs Smith, Pahiatuii, sister), who was killed in action. In his civil life be had followed the profession of teaching, his first school in the Dominion being at Mangahoe, and at the time of volunt?ering his services had charge of the Tauherenikau school. He was also, a very useful member in connection with church affairs, • and frequently acted as lay reader at St. John's Church, Featherston.