PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 14 July 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death of Lord Ellesmere, at the age of 61, is announced by London cablegram. Mr Jesse J. Redwood, cousin of Archbishop Redwood, and formerly of Kaikoura and Blenheim, died in Palmerston North last week. His two daughters are Sisters of Mission at Hamilton and Dannevirke. Mr E. G. T. Thomas, of the Stratford office of the Public Works Department, has received notice of transfer to the head office, and leaves for Wellington to-morrow morning. This morning the staff gathered together and on their behalf Mr Lawn presented Mr Thomas with a fountain pen as a token of the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues. Mr H. A. Fox, of the Office Appliances Company, 'Wellington, who was ,um|AL W Twpiooß ui painful gamarino in May is gradually recovering, but is still unable to leave the Mount Pleasant Private Hospital in Auckland. Mr Swinson, Wellington manager for Messrs Chandler and Co., A, who was also bodily injured in the same * accident, is still confined to his bed in the Hamilton Hospital. Mr and Mrs Sara Dixon, of Hawera, recently • celebrated their golden wedding. They have lived in Hawera for 84 years, and were previously at Patea. Mr Dixon was organist and choirmaster in the Wesleyan Church at Hawera for a number of years, and Mrs Dixon the leading soprano in the choir. Members of the family were prominent in musical circles also. Mr Dixon has always been a cricket enthusiast. Mrs Geo. F. Burgess, of Stratford, is one of the seven surviving children. There are thirty grand-children living, and one great gr’and-daugbter.