PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 8 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs C. Bayly has just received intelligence by cable from Mr C. Bayly (who went Home to offer his services at the Front) that Sergeant Clifford Mather, his nephew, has died from wounds in France. Sergeant Mather, -who was about 24 years of age, was exceedingly popular in the Toko and Stratford districts, and the news of his death will be received with great sorrow by many friends.

Mr A. H. Featherstone,- Frankley Road, has just received word that his brother, Lieutenant G. Featherstone, of the 16th Middlesex B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) has been wounded somewhere in France, and also another brother, Captain O. Featherstone, who has been stationed in India with the 4th Queen's Royal West Surreys, has been appointed aide-de-camp'to the. gal.

foromost..and. njpgtj. P;OPjJ ar M lfs{fsv and the immediate ex-mayor or the town, enlisted yesterday for .service,, and passed the medical test. Mr Kirk has just been re-elected, for the third time, a member of the' Hawke's Bay Education Board, and was a member of the Royal Commission on Edu* cation in 1912. He topped the poll at the election of members in the North Island to the National Council of Education. He holds a commission as captain. . , :

■ Sister.M. St. Domitille, of the Lower High'" Street Convent, Christchurch, has received word from the University authorities that the thesis on the Early History of Canterbury which, she wrote in connection witli the lionpurs' and M.A. examination, received £OO per cent, of tJie marks possible. The Examiner,',Prof of , Oxford University, England 'described her. work ag'admirably "worked put In every detail. | The'! jSis4| first-class honotirs a s the result of t&>, . examination. Sister St. Domitillewa's formerly, known as Miss May Hickey, of Opunake. She was for a time an assistant mistress in the Stratford School, and her old friends will be pleased to hear of the high honours she has gained.