Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 5

Personal.

Mrs Thos. Partridge, a very old resident of Stratford, died yesterday, aged 69.

The Right Reverend Frodsham, Bishop of North Queensland, has accepted the canonry of Gloucester, states a London cablegram.

The Rev. A. Thomson, of St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Petone, died after a short illness, states the Press Association.

* Mr and Mrs Marcus M. Wood, who celebrated their thirty-second wedding anniversary in their cottage at \N ebster, Massachusetts, have for years subsisted comfortably, they declare, on a daily outlay of 2id per head.

Messrs George and Charles Hartley, of Rata, Mr Mumford, of Raugitikei, are passengers by the Ruapehu for England, where they will prosecute their claim to a share in the Hartley estate in London, said to bo worth several millions (states a TV ellxngton P.A. message).

Mr L. Buehler, one of the most popular younger members oi the staff of the Stratford school, has succeeded in getting a full teacher’s certificate. His work gained, “special mention” in botany. These special mentions are very rare, and only three of them, two being from Stratford school, were gained in the Taranaki district.

Mrs Theophilus White, of Powderham street, New Plymouth, died last night, after a comparatively short illness. The deceased lady, who had reached the patriarchal age of 92 years, preserved her faculties almost to the last (states the News). She arrived in New Plymouth with her late husband, who predeceased her some ten years, in the early sixties, and passed through all the troublous times of the Maori war. She leaves a family of three sons —Messrs W. G. White (at present in England), P. P. White (post, niafcter at Hamilton), and Dr. E. T. White (Brisbane)—and four daughters: Mesdames C. Bundle (New Plymouth), A. Gilmour (Sydney), 11. W. Holmes (Wellington), and D. Gumming (Auckland), The interment will be private.

The death took place in New Plymouth late on Saturday afternoon, of Mr F. A. Bremer, of Okaiawa. The late Mr Bremer was born in South Australia G 6 years ago, arriving with his parents in New Zealand when in his teens, and settling near Marton, whence the family shifted some years after to the Waverley district. Mr Bremer subsequently took up property in the Whakamara and Okaiawa districts. Deceased was known throughout the Dominion as a successful breeder of Clydesdales, as well as of Lincoln stud sheep and Ayrshire cattle. He leaves a widow and family of five, two sons—Mr P. Bremer, farmer, of Matapu, and Mr L. Bremer, farmer, of Okaiawa, and throe daughters—Mrs T. C. List and Mrs C. M. Hill, of Now Plymouth, and Miss Bremer. Private interment took place in Te Henui cemetery this afternoon.