PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The death, at Dunedin, is announced of Mr James Jago, well-known on the concert platform throughout the Dominion. The death of Mr John McLachlan, aged 75, formerly member for Ashburton, is announced by the Press Association. > Mrs Wilkie, sister of Mr 0. A. Wilkinson, M.P., for Egmont, is at present an inmate of the Bowen Street Hospital, Wellington. Mr J. 13. Hine, member for the district, was a passenger by .the mail train on Saturday evening, and proceeded to his home at Toko. Cabled advice was received this morning that Trooper Edmond L. Malone, eldest son of the late Colonel Malone, has arrived at Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, England. In alighting from a tramcar on his nay to Parliament House on Friday, the Hon. R. K. Simpson, M.L.C., had a Fall which occasioned dislocation of a shoulder. Private advice has been received that Private Roy. Okey, of New Plymouth, has been wounded at the Dardanelles, and is in hospital at Taptoidj Buckinghamshire, England. The death, at the age of 62, of Sir Claude Mat-Donald, formerly British Ambassador to Japan, a defender of biie Legations during the Boxer rising of 1900, is announced from London. Rev. J. 1). McKenzie, pastor of St. Paul's. Waligamii. has offered his services to the military authorities, to take the place of Chaplain-Major Grant, of Gisborne. who was killed on the 18th at the Dardanelles.

Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, ; s at present the guest of the Apostolic Delegate at Washington, and •jfter visiting New York and Chicago, lie expects to return to New Zealand about the middle of October. Mr J. Swindlehurst, of Hunter Road, Eltham, has received avice from the Defence authorities, that his son, Private Fred. R. Swindlehurst, who has been missing since August 8, is believed to have been killed in action. Lieutenant F. H. Anderson, who has been on duty in Samoa since the occupation in September, 1914, arrived in Auckland by the Nayua last evening. He has been recalled for duty elsewhere. At Asiiburton yesterday, the Rev. •T. A. Burgin announced i" St. Stephen's Church, that an Ashburton lady had given him £SOO in bank notes towards the fund of £25,000 being raised in the district for the Wound 1 Soldier;. P.A.

Obituary: Auguston Hutton Shury, for mfiy • ?ir.- ; manager of the Ashburton branch of the Union Bank.While in r-jmedin ho had charge.-.of the bank's gold-buying business, and purcha ■.•-! the first parcel of gold brough' to < V town by the late Gabriel Reid. In Inter years, he took an active uitcreSt in acclimatisation matters.— P.A.