PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 40, 17 June 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr W. T. Jennings, M.l’., left Te Kniti last night, J’oi - Ohakune, to open a fete in aid of the hospital ship. Sir Stanley I'nckmaster, who was recently raised to the peerage on his appointment as Lord Chancellor, has taken the title ot liaron liuckmaster of. Ahlgriot. I ■ I Private AH'. Dickenson w«s Killed during the Dardanelles operations. Tiie deceased was a lormer resident of Waverley. Prior to leaving lor the front he was manager of the Haweia branch of Messrs (Jihsons, Ltd. Mr. H azolthorn, .Minister for Public Works in the State Parliament, has resigned his position as \ ictorian representative on the Panama Commission. .Mr V. J. Le athem, of Eltham, who recently sold his interest in the Eltham Hotel to Mr C. L. Kasjior, has purchased the lease ol the Kaponga Hotel. Trooper Alexander James Roxburgh is numbered amongst the killed. He was for some time in the employ ol Mr C. A. Wilkinson, of Eltham, and was well known there, and highly respected. Sapper C. A. Scrivener, who is reported as having died of enteric, was a sou of Mr A. T; Scrivener, a member of the late firm of Taylor, Scrivener, and Co., and was for some time in the employ of the Eltham Dairy Faetory ;

The Education Hoard yesterday passed a vote of sympathy to Mr E. Ma--i'ell, a member of the Hoard, on the ! death of Ids son at the Dardanelles, * and also with Mr and Mrs Dewhirst on the death of their son, while fighting for the Empire. 1 Mr F. Reeve, of Masterton, has been advised that he has been bequeathed £12.000; together with valuable property at Ipswich. England. Mr Reeve has been employed as a laborer in Masterton for a number of years. I Friends of Miss E. Jackson, M.A., science teacher at the Stratford District’ High School, will regret to hear she is indisposed. Acting on the of her medical attendant, Miss Jackson will not return to her duties until ' the beginning of J uly. ' At St. Mary’s Church, Now IMymouth, yesterday, the Rev. I'. A. Crawshaw was married to Miss M. C. Dowling. The bridal couple left in the : afternoon on route to Auckland. Thence they will go to Sydney and Norfolk Island, making the latter place their future homo.

Sapper ■ Ernest B. Bricked, ol tlio Field Engineers, who lias been wounded at the Dardanelles, and is now in hospital, was an old Stratford School hoy, and has many I'riends in the district who will he sorry to hear ol his misfortune. -Mr H. A. Bricked, oi Tntntawa, is-a brother oi the wounded man. The newly-elected M.B. for Taumarunui is in, lor a busy time. lonight he-delivers a patriotic address at Ohakune . On dune 27th he will unveil an obelisk at Waitara, erected to the memory of soliders killed on Juno 27, 1860. On dune .29 he will open the Opata bridge over the "Wanganui river. Mr Jennings has received over d()0 congratulatory telegrams from all parts oi the Dominion. dir I). Charteris, Fit/.roy. has received the following wire irom the Hon. d. Allen, Minister of Deience: — “Regret to inform yon that cable received to-day reports that your son, 12-574 Malcolm Maxwell Mel ones Charteris, missing from April 2b to May Id. I sincerely trust that satisfactory news will shortly lie received of him. Private Charteris was a member of the I6th A\ aikato Hegiment, which suffered so severely when landing on the morning of April 2b.