PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 65, 16 November 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Harry Lauder, writing to a friend in Dunedin, says: "Gio a' the folks my warmest regards, and toll them I'm coming oufc to the Colonies when the iviir is finishod, just to celebrate the defeat o' Hie Hun!" Mrs McQuay, of Orlando Street, who has been on a visit to Wellington to bid good-byo to her son. Pri'vato William McQuay, who leaves with the Bth Reinforcements, return--lod to Stratford by the mail train last evening. i At the Stratford Club on Saturday evening last .Mr W. H. Reeve, of the , Union Hank, who left yesterday to go into camp at Trenfham, was the recipient of a mark of regard and esteem from his fellow-members, high appreciation of the course he is taking being expressed. A cable has just 'wen received from I Lieutenant Vernon Orawshaw, who left Alexandria for the Dardanelles with the 6th Reinforcements two months ago, has been invalided to London owing to an attack of dysentery } but the message states he is nowcon valescent. Mr W. P. Kirk wood received advice by to-day's English mail that his brother. Major Kirkwood, ha's been removed from No. I General Hospital, Versailles, to the Royal Free Hospital, London. Major Kirkwood was struck three times, twice by shrapnel in the body, and a gunshot wound through the right arm. One of the shrapnel wounds is of a serious nature, but it is expected that lie will be aide to rejoin his regiment in due course.

Von Mackensen, the Kaiser's famous general, is of Scottish descent at least, so they will have it in Hie north, remarks a London paper, first it was said that his ancestor was a Mackenzie from the Highlands. Now his ancestry is much more plausibly traced to a family named Mackieson, who held lands at hivernie i» Aber_ deen. There is authentic evidence that a member of that family settled a s a merchant at Kulm, in what is now Prussian Poland; and the transition from Mackieson to Mackensen is an easy one. At that period, and later, largo numbers of Scottish merchants went to Poland, and many of them never came back- to their lative country, so that there is no improbability of von Mackensen, who is a native of the same region, being a descendant of the Aberdeenshire trader.