PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 35, 11 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mi E. S. Hiitherfurd was a passcri- "T? ger by the mail train tin's morning. Private Rogers returned to Treiitliam Camp by this morning's mail train. .Lieutenant 1.. Buckler, alter spending the week-end in Stratford, left for '!f rentliam by tlie express this morning. i Captain C. H. Weston (of New Plymouth) is at present at Kastro, .a town of 2100 inhabitants in the bland , of Lcninos, doing police duties. i, ' ■ I Mr A. X. Martin has been appointed i toll-gate keeper at VVaipuKU, where* , the toll «i!l be opened on October In A A post card arrived in Stratford today From Private Mick Howler, dated August 12, containing the service stereotyped line: "I am quite well." Private P. Hunter, who lias been' spending a few weeks in Stratford on sick leave, left for Trentliam by the mail train this morning. Messrs Putherfurd, Maealister and Coleman have been appointed solicitors for the X.V.. Lorn and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. for the Stratford district. The two Stratford members of the j 7th Mounted Rifles Reinforcement, Lieutenants W. It, Foley and C. A. Ma reliant, have received promotion. Lieutenant Foley now commands G. •Squadron of the 7th, while Lieutenant Marehant has been appointed adju- % taut of the troopship on which the sail,; ri ; • ' ' ' , President Wilson's fiancee, Mrs Norman Gait, is the widow of a wellknown business man who died eightyears ago. She is described «s a woman of rare beauty, and charm, and is aged 88. , The announcement set society*) agog with excitement. Only in- •". tiniate friends were aware of the ( pending engagement. Dr. A. Owen Kvans. who lias for some time heeu at Charing Cross .Hospital. London.: has' enabled .to his .< mother. Mrs Evans, Stratford, stating that he has passed his examination Swif) Fellowship, and had taken up a 'commission in the, Army. f Information, j, was also seiit that A±goyd, his brother, who was wounded recently, was well. • ' The call to arms in need is finding ready response" in our midst, and reoruitiri'g Mmongst 1!l! aMr "' classes"of 'the coniirimiity proceeds apace. Mr 'C.' 'Rayly. of Tbko. brie of Stratford's most respected settlers, is proceeding to England in a few weeks' time to offer his services in some capacity to the 'military authorities. ' an encouraging lesson indeed. 'Mr Robert \ SpeiiC'e (of the firm of Spence and • Stanford, solicitors), lias registered for active service and been passed'as medically lit. Others of our most'es- -: teemed and useful settlers and citizens. • have sent in {their, names, or are about' to do so as circumstances permit. ■' , Tljere is, on all sides, ample evidence that 't'he spirit of'sacrifice is strong in this district.