PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 10

PERSONAL.

On Wednesday evening A farewell was tendered to Private A. W. of the Eighteenth Rein-■6rcenients,-by his friends. He was with a wristlet .watch-ana Heysr-al. other useful gift^, H Word :has been:received; by Sub-In-Mullany that is son, LieutenHnt G. L: Mullany.v-frno was wounded in Wrance on, July had been , dis■harged front hospital and appointed .command of>,Oorford Depot. : ;;.3ey"/.i/Macclqnald Aspland, of has received news Major Aspland, of Hhe Medical Corps,- ,has been awarded; Serbian."' Star for/ Distinguished in Serbia. Mr Edward Read, an old resident of is dead. Ho arrived in New Alma in 1857. Ho Rold a seat on the Marton Borough Mloiincil for twenty years, and took an Hctfve interest in 'everything that conHerrsed the welfare of the town. H'Mr'A. J- Johnston, secretary of.the Returned Soldiers' AssociaBon', who was inthe'Gallipoli campaign Hnd-' was invalided back, to New. ZeaMwid,. has resigned his position in order '''to' Australia, where he intends' Ho join the New" South Wales Expeditionary Forces. H;Mr A. Drew, of Palmerston North, Hui» received advice that his son, SerBeaitt Sidney Drew, of the Trench Btlortar Battery, New Zealand Field Ninth Reinforcements, has .recommended .for a. Distinguished 'Medal. Drew went the. infantry of the Ninth Re~ and was transferred in Hi'rance to the trench mortar section. The death is announced of Mr ..John who-resided in the Auckland Hlistrict for sixty-four years, and who H>assed away suddenly at his residence, Street, Mount Eden, at the age Ht! ninety-five years"; After his arrival B n New Zealand from Ireland, he took Hip farming', and was .a . successful grower. He subsequently Waitakere, where he and his Hens .became sheep-farmers. I Commander E. P. Armstrong, who is for the motor-boat patrol serat' the' instance of the British is in Wellington, He rohas toured Canada and British with satisfactory results; inHleed, Canadian papers assert that this arm of the service will inHludo men equal in resource and darHn" to -England's best naval men, and Bbat in their hands the German sub-^ peril wiir bo more perilous to than to her enemies. , Mr John Martin Croucher, who died Saturday, was an old resident of Nelson.' For many yeaxs He wns in business as a baker and He took a keen, interest Hn all matters connected with the adof the borough ana district;.: Be formerly took an active pare in local and was Mayor of Richmond:-: Hor a long time. He'also represented on the (Hospital and CharitBble Aid and was a Diombei«!of Hhe Ne&on : Agricultural Association,,' reached the age of seventy- 1 V He '"was twi|e -married, and left gfowb-up family of .three' Bp^^Vdaughters. Of the sons, BpiliF '"' ' Croucher t^^J^i cli and Mr