PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The death occurred (iii Sundiiy morning nl Mr .John I'atersou, secretary of the Wellington Club. Obituary: Lord Olantawe, who began lite sis ;i tjnworker. His age was SO years. The death ol' Sir .lames .Murray, the eminent historical philologist and lexicographer, aged -77. is announced From London.

A complimentary social was tendered to Mr .i. V. W'yhorn at the River-

dale Dairv Factory on .Monday, when he was presented with a case of cutlery and {in illuminated address.

Mr !•'!.s'rl'-y Clark Stewart, of the PubK- Works Department, has I'eeii passed :ts medically lit for th? Keinforceinents. and will leave Stratford at a later date.

The Rev John Walker. M.A., formerly of St. Thomas's ph'ureh, Newt.ow.ll. anil at present at Aranioho. has heen appointed to succeed the Rev. 11. Watson, M.A.. as vicar of St. Matthew's, Masterton.

Mr (i. R. Sykes. M.P.. wllO went to Masterton for the week-end. was taken ill on Sunday. On Monday lie was admitted to the fever ward, of the Masterton Hospital. He is reported to lie suffering from either measles or scarlet fever.

The death is reported rif Mr William la'sson Bailey, of Foilding. at the age of 78, one of the gohlfields and sawmilling pioneers of the Dominion for over 50 years, and who had resided in the Keilding district for some forty vears.

In reply to the presideni of the Tarahaki Chamber of Commerce, who wrote a week ago, urging the claims of Taranaki to week-end concession lares on the railway, the Minister for Railways states that the whole question of week-end fares is to be considered shortly, and that the Taranaki section will not lie overlooked.

■ Sergeant Pini, of the Native section of the Expeditionary Force, who has been on a recruiting tour along this coast during the last week, was in Man-aia on Friday, and in conversation, says the Waimate Witness, admitted the fruitlossness of his mission. The Natives, he said, have dug up an old prophecy of Te Whifci's about war and the sword from which nothing will turn them. The old men shake their heads and solemnly quote the words of the old seer and law-giver. and if pushed by argument or remonstrance become excited and violent. They will not. they say, allow their young men to go abroad to light, hut if the Germans come to New Zealand t.liey will arm and light them to the death. The attitude of the Maori women is even more decisive and emphatic, while the young men seem to have been effectively schooled into a reverent acceptance of the old superstition and present a dogged obstinacy that nothing can move. "I have been right up and down the coast." said Sergeant Pini, "and J have been able only to secure two or three recruits altogether."