PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 36, 18 January 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Corporul C. Barker, I).CM., is now in the Stratford Hospital suffering from ;i slight relapse of dysentery. Madame Bernard, late of His Majesty's Pictures, and now resident at Island Bay, Wellington, is at present on a business visit to Stratford. , Mr Carlton Healy, son of Mr J. I). Healy, who was recently invalided home from Trent ham. has now received his discharge. This morning Mr Campbell Jackson received the following cable message from Sergeant-Major It. Wood from Port Said: "Fit and well.—Boh Wood." Mr 1). H. Hill, accountant r.b the Stratford branch of the 'fev, Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., is at present an inmate of Dr. Paget's Private Hospital.

Captain Jtohn Murray Rose, who was mentioned in a cable message as baring received the Military Cross, served for twenty-four years in the Cnui[ei'ori H\u'ilanditv4 whjSch regijment he joined when he was sixteen years of age. He afterwards came to New Zealand and served as a musketry expert for eight years in the Wellington district . Prior to that he had seen service in the Soudan campaign.

Another old colonist passed away on Saturday a£ her residence, Pirie Street, Wellington, in the person of Mrs' Thomas Kirk, widow of Thomas Kirk, botanist, author of the "Forest, Flora of New Zealand,''; and of "The Students' Flora.of New Zealand," and at one time conservator of .State forests for this Dominion. To the end of her life the deceased lady maintained a deep interest in all public affairs. She was -of .a* very charitable, disposition, and .for.}.'Years arranged the dispatch of boxes of rjothing for Sir John Kirk's Ragged School Union. She arrived at Auckland in 1863 in the ship Gertrude with her husband, who died in 1898. She leaves two sons, MrflVW. Kirk, director of horticulture for the Dominion, and Professor H. B. Kirk, of Victoria College, and three daughters, Miss Kirk, visitor for the Charitable Aid Board, Mrs A. R. Atkinson, and Miss C. E. Kirk, and also lour grandchildren and one great-grandchild.