PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mrs Elizabeth Rossiter, an old identity of Tarnnaki, died in Now Plymonth on Saturday, at the age of 81 years. A Wellington telegram reports the death of Mr William Ford, captain of the Ross Fire Brigade, aged 43. He was presented with a sold star for 25 years' service at the last Association Conference. The Rev. J. R. Shore, who is now entering upon his tenth year as minister of the church in Hawera, has been appointed moderator for Stratford arid Eltham, and the Rev. McKivor. of Waverley, Moderator for Manaia and Opunake. Mr Archibald Allan Thomson, senior member of the firm of Ganawny and Co., muster stevedores, met his death through falling off a buoy in Welling-, ton harbour on Friday afternoon whilst endeavouring to moor the auxiliary scow Echo off the Throndon esplanade.

"f have never been in Napier hub the sun was shining," said Mr .Justice Stringer at the Arbitration Court on Wednesday. Mr Pry'd'r said that as a result of Napier's beautiful weather, the painters there would naturally earn more than in other districts, where weather conditions were worse. He seriously urged that as a reason why Napier painters should not ask for more than similar workers had accepted elsewhere.

j Lieut. H, R. Martineau, V.C., formerly transport officer of the Otago Infantry Battalion, who returned invalided by the Maheno, died in Dunedin hospital on Saturday morning. He won liis Y.C. at Game Tree in December, 1.899, during the Boer war, when be was three times wounded and bar! his left arm amputated. He was recommended for distinction by Major (now General Sir Alexander) Godloy. He also saw service in the Matabcle campaign and in the Natal native rebellion.

Captain Aeneas Mackintosh, of the Shackleton Expedition, is well known in Sydney, where he made many friends during frequent trips as an Officer on board the P. and 0. "steamers Victoria and India. In 1908 lie left the P. and 0: service to go with the Shackleton Expedition in Charge of the stories on board the Nimro'dj and it was while supervising the unloading of provisions that a block caught him in the eye, and injured the sight so much that the eye had to be removed. When starting on the present .expedition 'he was accompanied as far as Sydney by his wife, who is an English girl. She has returned to England. As an apprentice serving his time on a sailing ship, Captain Mackintosh was known to his intimates as "Lord Nelson."

| His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. W. 'Boon) is in receiptor a wire from j Auckland stating that Private T. .1. Sheahan, son of Mr J. Sheahan, Strat- : lord, had arrived in good health, and .would be home by the mail train to- • morrow night.

At a meeting of the Taranaki Presbytery, held in Hawe'ra on Thursday, it was announced that the Rev. W. 11. Howes, 13. A. of .Manaia, had received a unanimous call to Ratigiora, which he had accepted, and also that the Rev. J. Pattison. of Stratford, had accepted a unanimous call to the Somerville .Memorial church. Romuerh', Auckland. Tnc,Rev. J. R. She- M.A., or Hawera has been appointed dork to the Presbytery vice the Rev. Howes.

An inmate of the Gisborne Old Men's Home, Mr Charles HMlman, celebrated his 101st birthday last week. It is stated that he was boi;n on board the Rainbow while his parents were travelling from Liverpool to New York. His mother was a negress and a slave, and his father, an Englishman, redeemed her, and married her. That lie comes from a long-lived race is shown by the fact that his father lived to the age of 11.1 years. The old man is still hale and hearty.

It is authoritatively stated by the Sydney Morning Herald that Mr Holman, the Premier of New South Wales, has received an invitation from the Minister for .Munitions (Mr Lloyd George) to visit England, Representations have been made to the AgentGeneral that Mr Holman's presence Mn England would be of value to the British Government at the prosr»rft-tine in connection with the manufacture of munitions, [both m the 'Commonwealth' and'in England. During his last visit to -England Mr Holrnau made the" tic-1 quaintuneo' of Mr Lloyd George, who, it appears, formed a very high opinion of the State Premier's abilities.