PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 84, 15 March 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr E. G. Stapp, chief clerk of the telegraphic branch of the Christchurch Post ami Telegraph Ollico, lias been appointed postmaster at Peikling.

The Rev. W. H. il owes, of Manaia, has received a call to the pastorate oi the Presbyterian Church at Raiigiora, in succession to the Rev. T. Miller, wiio has gone to Peikling.

Captain Gilman, the unfortunate commander of the Matatua, aas very popular in Wellington and has many friends in New Zealand. Hi 3 wife was a niece of Mr T. G. Grubb, of Stratford.

Professor Hewitson is expected to reach Dunedin in about a fortnight irom Canton, a here he went as .1 deputation from the Presbyterian Church of Now Zealand. Professor Dickie, who is returning from a \ isit to Scotland, is expected to reach the Dominion in about a fortnight.

Sir James Carroll, who was to tieliver the national oration at St. Pattick’s Day sports, now finds that, io business arrangements he I cannot net to Wellington on next Prill ay. in his telegram to the secretary Uur Mctveowen) ne states chat he appreciates to tile iuilest the iionor ot auoraiug him the opportunity to speak of the irisii patron saint anti all that it nationally conveys.

The Rev. Father Ainsworth, who uas been transferred to Napier from cue South island, preached his first sermon at the Catholic Church there on Sunday. father Ainsworth remarked to the congregation that he "as not a stranger to -Napier, having celebrated his first Mass at St. Patrick's Church twenty-one years ago, i wnilo sixteen years ago lie had conducted there a very successful mission.

Mr W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke's Ray for the past two years, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury with headquarters at Christchurch. The Hawke’s Ray Herald savs it is understood that Mr C. R. Pollen, whose place he is taking is retiring from the service and intends taking up his residence in Auckland. ' A successor to Mr Skinner has not yet been appointed.

Mr' Michael Moloney, a highly respecter! resident of Hawke’s Bay, has just died, aged 72 years. He was a native of Ireland I,' 1 ,' and was a university man. Ho landed at Napier in tlie “sixties,” and was appointed as a teacher; He fought during the Maori war. being wounded several times. At the conclusion of hostilities Mr Moloney was in the Prison Service, but later joined the Native School Department, where he remained until he retired after 29 years’ service.

Mrs Keasberry, wife of Mr W. H. Keasberry, of Pungarehu, Taranaki, who died last evening at the residence of her sister, Miss Compton, Wellington Road, Kilbiriiie, had been in indifferent health for some time, and an attack of influenza was followed by pneumonia, which proved fatal. Deceased was a daughter of the late Mr John Compton, of Wellington, but had resided for over twenty years m the Taranaki district. Her husband and two daughters survive her. The only son. who was a member of the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was killed in action within a week of the initial landing at Anzac in April last.