PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, 6 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr William Hayhurst, aged 78, uncle to the late Colonel Hayhurst, died at Woodville on Sunday morning. Mr Alfred William Hurst, one of the pioneer settlers of the Hntt, passed away there on Sunday, aged 86 years and five months. Mr. John Lockhart, produce sujaiintendent and seed expert of cue New Zealand Loan- and Mercantile Co., inspected the company’s stocks ac Stratford yesterday, and is pioceeding to the Hawera office tins 'morning before returning to Wellington. Captain John Henry Arden, the New Zealander with the Worcestershires, who has won the Victoria Cross, was formerly a station-holder near Cape Runaway, Hawke’s Bay, and was well known on the east coast. The ilentii has occurred at Ballarat of an old Crimean soldier, William !’ Donnell. He was 85 and belonged to the famous 50th Regiment. He held British and Turkish medals with bars for Inkerman and Sebastopol. He also served in New Zealand against the Maoris.