PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17477, 23 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs F. J. Johns left Wanganui on Tv.osday i»n a month's tour of the South Island. An Auckland telegram announces the death, of the Hon. Thomas Thompson, aged 86 years. Mr Charles Ahier, a^ed 76, passed ftwav at New Plymouth yesterday. He was an old colonist, and a Waikato war veteran. He was also associated with the early gold ventures of Thames. For the last 25 years he was engaged in the timber trade in Taranaki. Tho many friends of Mr A. S. Wilson, of Perth, but who was formerly'minister of the Ingestre-St. Baptist Church, will regres to hear that- he has suffered go re bereavement, in the death of his elder son Colin who passed away on Deoernber 14th, 1018. Th? deceased, who joined the Australian Erpeditionary Force, .sailed for thp front, in s.s. Boonah on his nineteenth birthday but fell a vie-

•tiin to the influenza seourgs. Colin Wilson was a youne man of great r.ttainnjpcts, and th c posits-or of a happy disposition, which endeared him to ail. He was regarded as 6nt, of the mosf-, -promising vmuig men in Western Australia, and* his untimely death has called forth exprei-sions of deep regret from Jill c.las-es of the community. Sincere sympathy wi]l go out to Mr and Mrs Wilson and their remaining son in the sorrow that, bas coin© to them.