PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 302, 19 December 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. M. Samuel, who contested the Hutt seat unsuccessfully against Mr Wilford, has been appointed Major in command of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment in the Third Reinforcement Force now assembling at Trentham.

Mr William Gunn, a Timaru denial surgeon, died on Wednesday. He was an old resident, and well known as the proprietor of the Theatre Royal and in connection with the focal racing club and Caledonian Society. He had been ailing for some time.

The death is reported of Mr John Gallagher, of Wellington, who arrived in "Wellington from Ireland in 1866. He took part in the Maori wars and gained the New Zealand war medal, after which he was appointed to the Prisons Department. For the past thirty years "he resided in Hopper street.

After twelve years’ missionary work in the Solomon Islands, the Rev. J. M. Steward, M.A., of the Melanesian Mission is taking a health-recruiting trip, visiting Australia, New Zealand, and ultimately England. He arrives in Stratford to-night, and will be the gue'st of tie’ Rev," C. ard, who for some time - was also working on the mission field in the Solomons. Mr Steward cam© on the tnission ship, “Southern Cross,” which reached Auckland recently.

Mr W. L. Kennedy, of Stratford, arrived back from an extended tour cf Great Britain and America on Thursday. Mr Kennedy is in the best of health, and when interviewed by a “Post” representative had many interesting incidents to relate. Mr Kennedy was present at the 600th Anniversary of Bannockburn, and had the honor, along with Mr Jas. Kennedy, of New York, of responding to the toast of “Scots Aboard” at the banquet in the evening.