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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 9 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

i Inspector Wilson, of the Police I Department Wanganui, was in town I yesterday. .Mr •!. B. Ciemow of Opunake Road, received word tin's week that his son Phil had been invalided to England. The denth of Stephen King, an Australian survivor of Stuart's expedition, is announced from Adelaide. The Timaru Presbytery has nominated Rev. •). SI. Connie as Moderator of the (Jeneral Assembly. Mr C. Kivell left for the south, en route to TrentJuun. by the mail train this morning. Privates MeQuay and Potts, who have been spending a few days' holiday in Stratford, left for Trentham by. the mail train this morning. A cable from "Washington announces ' the engagement of President Wilson to Mis" KorhniA' (hilt; The wedding ! will probably take place in December. Sir Sttiart »eddon 3 who wenfi with' the expeditionary force, f to. Samoa. ' left yesterday" by 'the Dorset for 'England, where he intends "Eo* enlist in the Imperial Army. I >•''.' Mr W.-T.i Jennings, M. P., received* a telegram from the Secretary of War, London, on Thursday, stating that his son. Lieut. Harold Jennings, of the Imperial .Royal Field Artillery, was wounded on September 20 last. The Rev. C. Hnucheu, vicar of Te Kniti. has been appointed chaplain of Lord Liverpool's Own Ist and 2nd Battalions. Mr Hodchen'.s commission dates from 1908, and during the past year-has , 1 ss-\ 3 Waikato Regiment. Writing fron,i f C.'amp. to a." friend ill Xew Plymouth, Private Reg. Quilliam. who Left with the Fifth Reinforcements T.says: ': Fnfortunately we have lost Major -Fletcher, who is to be made Lieutenant-Colonel and in charge of flie camp here." The death occurred last evening of Mr Thomas Cawthorh, of Nelson, at the age of 82. Mr Cawthoru was born at Cambervvell, Surre, and came to New Zealand at the age of 15, with his lather, who settled in Nelson, After an absence of a lew years in Wellington pud Australia Mr Thomas Cawthorn returned to Nelson in 1857, and entered into the shipping ' "business. For many years he was agent for the principal lines trading to the place, when Nelson was one of the most important ports of the colony, and also transacted a very huge business as 1 shipping contractor. He accumulated a large fortune, which in late years he drew upon with greatest liberality to benefit the city, and among his more important benefactions to Nelson are the new hospital about to be erected, lor which he gave £15,000; Cawthorn Park, a beautiful forest reserve of 2500 acres near the city; a flight of stone steps on Church Hill, costing £1800; ,an organ in the School of Music, cOsti'ng I'ISUO. and a gift of £2500 to clear off the indebtedness of the Institute. He also made valuable benefactions to Nelson Institute and other piiMic institutions. At the time of his death he was elaborating a . scheme lor further expenditure for public benefit, including a solar physics observatory, estimated to cost £IO,OOO.