PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Cullen, Commissioner of Police, will retire on superannuation

iii September next

Lance-Corporal A. S. Davis, of the A.S.C., who has been spending a few days final leave in Stra*tford, left for cam]) by the mail train this morning.

Mr T: G. Boyd, of the Bank of New Zealand's Stratford branch, who has. volunteered for active service, left for Kaikoura this morning to visit

his parents prior to going into camp

Mr D. Lynch, of the Bank of Australasia, has been transferred to the Bank's branch at Gisborne, and will leave Stratford to take up his new duties on Wednesday.

A London cablegram reports the death of Sir A. B. Markham, Bart., Liberal M.P. for the Mansfield Division of Nottinghamshire, and one of the strongest-critics of the Government, who died suddenly.

The health of Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Hughes, who recently returned from England, c ntiimc.j to improve steadily. He leaves for Rotorua shortly to undergo a course of treatment, which he hopes will restore him to complete health.

Mr Herbert B. Bridge, of Wellington, who was 07 years of age on Monday last, is probably one of the oldest living residents of New Zealand, and was born at Waupu (Ba.\ of Islands). He is the son of the late Colonel Cyprian Bridge, of the 58th Regiment, who was at that time Resident Magistrate in the Bay of Islands.

Mr Walter F. Frear, ex-Governor of Hawaii, who is making a holiday trip to Australia, arrived at Sydney last week. Hie will visit Victoria,*' South Australia, and Tasmania, and will Lake in New Zealand on his return v'oyge. Mr Frear, who is accompanied by his wife and daughter, is president of the "Hands Around the Pacific" movement.

Mr Walter .Matthews has been appointed sergeant-major of F Company, 19th Regiment; J. 0. Nicholson has been made a sergeant in B Company; A. Chrystall a sergeant in the Specialist Company; and E. Armstrong, W. Rogers (of Stratford), and Hugh Fraser sergeants in H. Company. Taranaki is therefore well represented in the 19th Reinforcements.

The Hon. J. T. Paul, was re-elected chairman, and Mr L. 0. H. Tripp vice-chairman, at a meeting of the Advisory Board of the Federated New Zealand War Relief Societies held at Wellington on Thursday. Mr W. P. Kirk wood has been appointed delegate for J&ranaki in place, of,Mr f ,J v A. Wilson. All other members of the board were re-elected.

Captain C. W. B. Littlejohn, Victorian Rhodes scholar for 1909,* who holds degrees in art, science, medicine, and surgery, and a diploma in anthropology of the Oxford University, has passed the final examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He has been on active service for two years with the R.A.M.C., and has been wounded twice.

A cable from London records the death in Mesopotamia of Sir Walter Alexander Haden Horsley, the eminent surgeon. He was born in 1857, and had been surgeon to the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy since 1886, and Emeritus professor of clinical surgery and consulting surgeon at the University College Hospital since 1906. As early as 1884, he made important discoveries, for which he received the Cameron and the Kothergil gold medals.

News has been received of the death at the front of Bomb. 0. G. W. Priest, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Priest of Palmerston North. The deceased soldier, who was twenty years of age, was born in Akaroa, Canterbury, and coming to the -North Island with his parents in his early boyhood, received his education at the Inglewood school, and later at Stratford High School, and in his scholastic career gave indications of a promising future. On his parents moving to Palmerston, Bomb. Priest joined the staff of Messrs. Abraham and Williams. He joined the artillery of the Main Body as a gunner, and went through the preliminary training course at Awapuni. He served with his battery in the Gallipoli campaign where he was wounded, but recovered and went to France when the Anzacs were transferred there some months ago. The last letter received by bis parents stated that he was well, and had just received his leave, and was going across to England ' for a short holiday, so that Bomb. Priest must have just returned t 0 duty when be received his death wound.