PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 38, 19 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces the death of Mr Fred Terry, the actor. The death is reported from Hokitika of Mr Peter Walker, a very old resident, aged 76 years. Mr Geo. Palmer, an old resident of the Manawatu district, died .at Bunnythorpe on Saturday, in his 81st year. Mr T. A. Lonergan has resumed the practice of his profession as dental surgeon in Stratford, having taken rooms adjoining Hudson's pharmacy. Mr Mellsopp, who was one of the victims of the Ohakune fatality, was the son of the Is.be Mr James Mellsopp, who for m;;ir, years was headmaster of the public school at Mangere, Auckland. Last Friday was the eighty-second birthday of the Very Rev. Dean Binsfield, S.M., who has.spent 50 years in Xew Zealand. He arrived here in the early, sixties, and Taranaki was the first scene of his labors, where he was military chaplain. It was on the West Coast gold diggings that Dean Binsfield became best known, and his name is still familiar to the old gold diggers of the early gold-mining days of the Coast. The Dean has retired from active work, and is resting at St. Mary's Seminary, Greenmeadows. He is the longest ordained priest in the New Zealand Mission, and at the same time the longest, professed member of the Society, of Mary. ...

Stratford friends will be interested to Jearn that Dr. Carbery (or to give him his military title—Major A. Dillon Carbery, N.Z.M.C.j, is still doing good work .and gaining high honors at the front,.where he has been almost constantly since the outbreak of hostilities. Recently he was Gazetted "D.A.D.M.S." a very high rank in the service. The interpretation of the mystic letters is we believe, "Deputy Administrator of Divisional Medical Service. 1 '