PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 45, 28 January 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

| Mr Justice Hosking will preside j over the sitting of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth next week. Messrs J. Murphy (New Plymouth), A. Cameron (Stratford), Alf. L. Herbert (Taumarunui), and H. Gilmour (Whanga), are the last recruits to pass the medical examination for the Reinforcements. Lieutenant C. Gray, of the local Defence Office, received notice from headquarters last evening to report at the ship side-—hospital ship, Willochra —on Sunday morning. Lieutenant Gray leaves for Wellington by the mail train to-morrow morning. Messrs A. R. Standish, R. B. Reid, A. IT. Johnstone and V. C. Davios have been appointed' second lieutenants (temporary) in the Territorial force. Mr W. P. Jones, of Waitara, ha s also received a commission as secI ond lieutenant in the Territorials. Mr Gordon Pettigrew, who was for some time on the staff .of the Dannevirke branch of the New Zealand 'Loan and Mercantile Company, but ! who latterly has been in Inglewood, ' left Wellington by the Corinthic yesterday to join the Imperial Flying Corps in England. The death is reported from Napier of Daniel Henry Fox, who held the position of postmaster in Manaia soma four or five years ago, aged 55 years. He retired from the public service soon after leaving Manaia, and visited the Old Country, settling in Napier on his return. He saw active service in the Maori war as a bugler. His wife predeceased him by 30 years, and he left a aronn-up family of two sons and daughter. A pretty, but quiet wedding was solemnised at the house of Mr Joseph McCluggage, Orlando Street, on Wednesday morning, when Miss M. Irvine, third daughter of the late Mr John Irvine, was married to Mr A. Mc- i Cluggage. The Rev. J. Patthon was j the officiating minister. Miss E. Brayshaw was the bridesmaid, Avhile Mr Jack McCluggage acted as best man. The bride was given away by Mr Joseph McCluggage. The happy couple left for Wellington en route to Dunedin after the ceremony. The death occurred at Timaru on Wednesday (says a Press Association telegram)-''-• of Mr Humphries Reid, aged 40, the seventh son of the late , Mr John Reid, of Elderslie, Oamaru. After farming for some time in North ' Otago, for the last eleven years he had been a member of the Timaru firm , of Messrs Guinness and Le Cren. He wa s a prominent supporter of racing and the hunt. A year or so ago he was seriously injured in a motor ac- . cident, and never properly got over it. He leaves a widow and two children. ! Mr H. J. H. Okey, "M.F., received the following message last night from the Minister for Defence: "I regret to advise .you that a cable received this day reports that a Board of ln'quiry declares that 10-V37 Sydney Melville Okey, previously reported miss- j ing,"-is" now believed to be dead. i Please accept my sincerest sympathy i |in the loss which you and New Zealand have suffered." Mr Okey also received telegrams of sympathy from their Majesties the King and Queen, and from Lord and Lady Liverpool. Sergeant "Sid" Okey, who was only 25 years of age, went with the main body, and on the fateful eighth *>f August, at Suvla, was in charge of No. 9 Platoon of the Wellington Regiment. He and his men, so tar as the evidence goes to show, got to the first trench—the one where Colonel Malone fell. About mid-day he remarked to a comrade, "Hullo, Somerville, still alive? There are only seventeen of us left." That was the last time he was seen alive, and Sergeant Okey was probably killed shortly afterwards.

NOTES AND MEMORANDA. Our readers' attention is drawn to the replace land advertisement of the well-known firm of C. and E. Jackson, land and commission agents, Stratford, who are advertising some very choice dairy farms on exceptionally easy terms, and as the firm undertake to finance clients for stock at 6 per cent, this should be appreciated by those in search of good dairy land. Alan D. Cuff, of the Simplex Motor Garage, Broadway South, has an interesting announcement to owners of motor cars in this issue. The Woodville Bacon Co. advertise receiving dates for February. The railway time-table arrangements in connection with the Hawera Races to be held "ton 2nd and 3rd February, are advertised in this issue. Newton King will hold his Stratford cattle sale on Tuesday next, at 1 p.m. Coal, full measure and prompt service, is to be obtained from W. Smith, 'Phone 142, Stratford. T. Borthwick and Sons' receiving dates for February appear in this issue. A missing sheepman's note book is advertised for. Reward on returning. In another column will be found February list of receiving dates for the Inglewood Bacon Curing Co. Dimock and Co's. receiving dates for February appear in our advertising columns. At Sunday evening's meeting of the Theosophical Society, the subject is, "Some Deeper Issues of the War."