PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 19 August 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr R. D. Lowers returned to Stratford from a business trip by the mail train last evening. : hud lii'd.' 'd -j ■>' ■ A message from Rome states that Lieutenant Sinigaglia, the winner of the last Diamond Sculls, at Henley, has been killed at the Carso. The engagement was announced last month in London of the Rev. Charles Palmer (Wellington) to Miss Mary Selwyn, daughter of the < late Bishop John Richardson Solwyiuv/ ' 7/ .1 'lb'.) vny.V I News has been received ihafriLieiutenant Massey, son of the RHme Minister, has been appointed Battalion Adjutant of his unit in Flanders. Lieutenant Massey left with the Main Body of the Rifle Brigade. Mr C. W. Curtis, who suffered so severely in the recent motor accident, ia now very ill, reports the Hawcra Star. There seems reason for fearing that the specific injury reported on Thursday, broken ribs, was accompanied by a severe bruising of one or more internal organs.

At the teachers’ social at New Plymouth last night, the Rev. A. B. Chappell referred to the absence ot Mr P. S. Whitcombe, the secretary of the Taranaki Education Board, due to the lamented death of one of ins daughters, Miss Kathleen Whitcombe. He eulogised the uniform courtesy and kindness shown towards teachers by Mr Whitcombe, and on his proposal the following resolution was passed in silence, the company standing; “That this gathering desires to express to Mr Whitcombe, its respectful sympathy ki his own and his family’s sad bereavement.”