PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr P. Skoglnnd returned from Wellington last evening.

To-morrow is the birthday of the Emperor of Austria, who will be 85 years old.

Mr William Henry Wishart, of Malice, has been passed as medically tit for the reinforcements.

Mr W. C. Macgregor, recently appointed Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, has been made a K.C.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt made her re-appearance at a War Fund matinee, and recited standing, reports a London cablegram.

Private advice was received in New Plymouth yesterday that Captain F. L. Hartnell is only slightly wounded in the shoulder.

It was reported last night in Wellington that advice had been received that Major Arthur Hume had been killed in action at the Dardanelles.

Captain George G. Hart, for many years assistant marine superintendent to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Wellington, who retired six years ago, died yesterday, aged 74.

Lieutenant Frank Turnbull, formerly of New Plymouth, appears in yesterday’s casualty lists from the Dardanelles. This is the .second time Lieutenant Turnbull has been wounded.

The death is reported of Lieutenant George Tayler, eldest son of Mr G. W. Tayler, of Eltham. Lieutenant Tayler was killed in action, at Gallipoli.

Private C. S. Kelly, formerly a member of the literary staff of the ‘Stratford F.vening_ Post,” is reported as sick, hut now convalescent, suffering from enteric fever.

The name of Lieutenant. .1. C. Lauder, of the Sth Argyll and Sutherland Highla uders, appears in the list of casualties at Home. He is a son* of Harry Lauder, the well-known Scottish comedian.

The Isjd Robert Newburn. who had both feet torn off at tire Kaitangata Coal Mine through being caught by the clothes by a revolving shaft, shows a much improved condition since being admitted to the Dunedin Hospital.

The Officers of the Second Q.A. .Mounted Rifles in the Bth Reinforcements were presented by the O.C. that Regiment, Colonel Pringle, yesterday, with a cheque on behalf of the Regiment to commemorate their leaving on active service. The officers are Lieut. W. R. Foley, Lieut. C. A. Marchant, and Lieut; J. Roberstou.

A cablegram from Sydney, received in Auckland, contained reassuring news concerning the condition of Hr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. The message read as follows:—“Patient very weak. Had several attacks since Sunday, hut heart not affected. Doctor most hopeled, and says recovery is a matter of time.”

There are not many farmers in Taranaki who can lay claim to having continuously supplied one dairy factory for the past twenty-three years. Air H. Old, who has just sold his faun at Lepperton, and has removed to Waitara Road, holds that record, having continuously supplied Lepperton Dairy Company since its opening day. Suppliers to the factory recognised his worth by presentiugshnn last night with a handsome clock for himself and Mrs Old, suitably inscribed. Mr H. B. Lepper, who made the presentation, in a happy speech, remarked that the recipient would have been the first supplier to the factory I nt for the fact that the speaker heat him by a minute.