PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 91, 21 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tho death is recorded by a Tans cablegram of M. Emile Olliver. Marion Piacenza, the celebrated Italian Alpinist, accompanies ny guides, while exploring m tho Himalayas, reached the summit of Numkan, twenty-two thousand feet, and bivouacked there for six nights, despite intense cold.—Home cablegram. Dr. Lumhold, a Norwegian, who conducted a zoological expedition to North Queensland a quarter of a century ago, is organising a scientific expedition for New Guinea under the auspices of the Norwegian and British Geographical Societies. Mr Frank Mackay, who has been spending a few weeks in the South Island, returned to Stratford last evening. ’ Friends in this district will regret to learn of the death of Mr Alfred Collingwood, son of Mr William Cqllingwood, which occurred at Inglewood on Tuesday. Mr Albert Heap, a Crimean and Indian Mutiny veteran, is dead, aged eighty, says a Sydney cablegram. He witnessed the murder of bis own mother and sister in Nana Sahib’s massacre at Cawnpore. In late yeai« he acted as gatekeeper at the Agi [cultural Society’s grounds.