PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 83, 6 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The engagement is announced of Miss M. Bennetts. Beekonham. ! Christchurch. to Mr Brian Malone. of SI ratford.

At a meeting of the Presbytery held at Hawera yesterday, it was decided to extend Rev. Roseveare's leave on account of ill health to three months.

Mr Sam Perth McXab, journalist and solicitor, a resident of Marlborough for over forty years, died in the Picton Hospital on Monday, aged sixtv-tliree. '

Corporal T. Oscar Boss. Ist Canadian Contingent, the first man to win the I).CM. (for conspicuous bravery on the field of the Battle of Ypres) is well-known in Hawke's Bav.

Mr Arthur Morton was yesterday re-elected chairman of the Mangorei Dairy Company for the twenty-first year in succession. Mr Morton has occupied that position .since the inception of the company.

The death of Maartens, the novelist, is announced from Amsterdam. Maarten Maartens (J. M. \V. von tier Poor-ten-Schwartz) was born in Holland in 1860. He has exercised considerable influence in English fiction as a novelist and dramatist.

Private Robinson, of Gishorne, who was taken from the express train on Tuesday last, while en route to bis home from the Waikauae Camp, and found to be suffering from cerebro spinal meningitis, died in the Dannevirke Hospital last night, reports the Press Association.

Lieutenant T. L. Buxton, New Plymonth, who volunteered for service some months ago, has been notified by the Defence Department to report himself in Wellington on Monday, and that he has boon appointed permanent military quartermaster, with rank of captain, on the transports to and from Xew Zealand.