PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 29, 5 February 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. T. G. Brooke, organising secretary of Home Mission and Church Extension, contemplates paying uii official visit to East Egmont. A social will be tendered him at Douglas on Saturday, and he will take the-ser-vices at Huiroa, Tututawa, and Douglas on Sunday. A social will also bo tendered him at Huiroa.

Mr .Morris Fox, actuary of the Government Life Insurance Department, died at his residence, Brougham street, Wellington, just before ono o'clock this morning at the age of 57. The Press Association states that Mr Fox had been ill for some time, but his illness did not take a serious turn till a few days ago. He is survived by his widow.

The death of Miss Braddon (Mrs J. Maxwell), the well-known novelist, is announced by cablegram from London. Miss Braddon, who had passed the allotted span of three score years and ten by six years, wrote upwards of seventy novels of the sensationaldomestic order, and never lost the popularity which "Lady Audley's Secret" brought her in 1862. Her latest work Mas entitled "Miranda."

Private advices from England received by Mrs A. F. Giant, of Stratford, give particulars of the death of her cousin, Captain J. F. Strathearn Gordon, of the Scottish Rifles, younger sou of General Sir John H. Gordon, G.C.8., and grandson of the late Lord Gordon. The late Captain Gordon was 1 born in 1882, and joined the Royal Scots in August, 1900, and served during the last year of the South African war in Orange River Colony and Cape Colony. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1902, and Captain in 1910, in which year he was transferred from the Royal Scots to the Scottish Rifles.