PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 29 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

* Lieutenant Buchler arrived in Stratford by the mail train on Saturday evening. Dr W. R. Stowe, of Palmerston North, has accepted an appointment hi- one of the medical officers on the hospital ship Marama. Or. A. Meredith was, at the eighth annual meeting of the M hangamomoua County Council, held last week, elected chairman for the ensuing'year. Mt Frank Bratherton, for many years a guard on the railway between Palmerston North and Wanganui, died suddenly at Wanganui last week, aged sixty. Mrs Kirk by, of New Plymouth, has received a cable that her son Private Tom Kirk by, who has been ill ' n hospital at Aiudros, has been sent to 'England. A

Mr Cyril Gudgeon, of Queenstown. ■a brother of Colonel Gudgeon, formerly Government Commissioner in the Cook Group, died on Tuesday last, ,-, aged sixty-seven. The death occurred at Patea Hospital last Friday of Air Henry Robert Fitzwater. Air Fitzwater was born in ■ London, 62 years ago, and* had been a resident of Patea'for the last 25 years. Commissioner Cullen and Inspector Wilson (.in charge of the Wanganui s Police District), visited Stratford on Saturday on departmental business, and left for New Plymouth by the middav train. '

cn j): ■ ; • . ■ >V'VAfi Advice has ireen received in Welling--ton that Lieutenant Cecil Humphreys, D.C.M., of Christchurch, who lias had a brief but exceptional career in the Army, is at present at the Stohs camp', in Scotland, whore he is engag-. ed in instructing the young offices in trench warfare.

The following recruits have been passed as medically ht for the Reinforcements:—Messrs A. C. Wright, Midhirst (Mounted); P. N. Jones. ,Midhirst i(mounted-) C. Chadwick, Stratford (Infantry);' Nf J' Walsh, KolUuafcahi ‘''Mounted) ; J. McL’aughlan. Rowan '(Thfaiitrv).

Bishop Julius, of Christchurch, is. at present'on a visit to Bothnia, He. 4■ j ■ !■•(; i.u; , j.■ ) ; •il t • had a recurrence of the throat trou-, hie that ailed him sonm, tigre agOj and while at Botjorua will receive a, . course of treatment. It is expected . that he will retupi to tChrjsteliprph early next month. ,j , , Mr W. G, Wickham, the British . Trade Commissioner, who has lieen transferred from New Zealand to South Africa, will leave for Vancouver .on December 28. No direct communication with South Africa, js available, at the present . time,,', and Mj‘ Wickham, will, travel to , ue)v. post yip London. ~ Mrs Flynn, of Te Wera, has received a a letter; from her, son Maurice,- \vho ,ar^ ; rived at the London General Hospital! on August 2d. At time of writings 17th September he was- still in, bed; but (getting, on as well as could be iex<- ■ pected. .He had been operated on three times, and had more to go through, as other pieces of bullets were still in his body. He speaks highly of the kind treatment of the wounded by the English people, there being . dozens of motor cars available for the convalescent; the Hon. Thomas. Mackenzie and Mrs Mackenzie had also been very kind. Referring to the action on Bth August, when he was wounded, Private Flynn said there was hound to be a heavy casualty list, judging from his experience. Of a platoon of fifty of them, after the first night of battle there was only six left. . . Jack Petrie got badly wounded in the stomach, neck, and shoulder,. “The day J! got wounded,” continued Private Flynn, “was the day the Fifth Reinforcements arrived, and, strangely enough, Charlie Ritchie was the first to spot me lying down as they rushed past, and he said he would be back to take me out of the firing line if he could get away without the officers knowing it. and in less than an hour there was no officers left and very few men, so Charlie came and carried me two miles on his back while bullets, shrapnel, and bombs were whistling all around us. 1 may tell you that we did not wait long to get a,way from it. I can never forget Charlie for his brave action, and 1 hope he will be spared.” -•»