PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Agents-General informally luncheoned with Sir Georgo Reid, states a London cablegram.

Obituary: George Tinworth, the famous sculptor, aged 70 years, states a London cablegram.

Captain R, J. Seddon has been posted for duty at Paeroa, on the expiration of his leave at the end of tins week. One of Nelson's oldest residents, Mr Robert Freeman, is at present seriously ill. He is 94 years of age, and well-known by all residents of Nelson.

Sir A. Douglas's daughter and sisters, Major Douglas (his brother), and Admiral Fanshawe' (his cousin) were the chief mourners at the funeral, states a London cable.

Mr J. Taylor, of the Bank of New Zealand, New Plymouth, who has recently received promotion to the Manaia branch, was the guest at a farewell supper on Wednesday evening at the Terminus Hotel. ,Mr Taylor was presented with a bachelor's kit.

Archbishop O'Shea arrives in Stratford from Wellington to-morrow, and will celebrate first Mass at the Catholic Church on Sundey, also holding a confirmation service. On Monday evening he will be tendered a reception in the Town Hall.

The Rev. E. Allenson, who was at! one time a member of the Taranaki j County Council, in a letter written from Hobart to the clerk of that body, desires to bo remembered to his Intel fellow-councillors and all his Taranaki j friends (states the News). Ho says; that he has taken 650 acres of arable! land in Tasmania with an orchard ofi -1500 trees, and is doing well. He is! very pleased to have heard good re-, ports of Taranaki oil.

The death took placo at Waikouaiti, !' Otago, on Sunday, of Charles Richard | ("Dick") Nelmes, a famous old-time, cricketer, who was a familiar figure in the cricket field 50 years ago. In the early sixties he frequently rode to Dunedin from Waikouaiti by way of the mountain track and Flagstaff to take part in cricket matches. He play- 1 ed for Otago in the first match against the All-England Eleven in February, i 1864. ■ '|

The remains of the late Mr Henry William Ryan were interred in the Kopua/tama cemetery yesterday, the cortege being followed by a, large circle of relatives and friends. A service'was .held at ike Church of the Immaculate Conception, _ Stratford, where the coffin had been placed for the night. The Rev. Father Maples conducted the services at the church and graveside. The pall-bearers were Messrs C. Bleasel, Bowler (sen.). M. Bowler (jun), E. Kelleher, M. Power and T. Lawson.