PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 91, 14 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs E. and C. Jackson and A. D. Stanley leave to-day for Wanganui to secure entries for the Stratford Show.

Mr Walter Rutherford, one of the best known and most highly respected of Palmerston’s business men, died at Paekakariki at about 8.45 on Saturday night.

Count de Tarnow Tarnovske has been appointed Austrian Ambassador to the United States. It is believed the appointment is satisfactory to the American Government.

Mr E' Horrob’in; in the Eltham branch of the Bank of Australia, and who went to the front, has married the widow of the late Dr. Harrison, says the Eltham Argus.

In view of the degrading cf the stations, * Marton station has been raised a grade, and Mr Laing, stai ionmaster at Fielding, is to ho transferred to Marton. Mr J. Petrie, who succeeded Mr W. Spindeler at Marton, will assume charge at Fielding,

Mr E. Jackson left by this morning’s mail for Wanganui to tattend the official opening of the Imray Freezing Works, and also to attend the Wanganui Show. As president of the Stratford A. and P. Association, he is representing the Association at both places. . : ; nc,, , ;

•:' • • ■i ati mix! ai .0 ■ aaT A letter came Jo (hand. to-day from Private Charles S. Kelly, who will be remembered by very many people in the district as a popular member of the “Stratford Evening Post” staff, from the No. 1. N. Z. General Hospital at Brockenhurst, England, where he is rapidly recovering from a fractured thigh. He v writes with the same cheery optimism, but with the added knowledge of “a veteran of twenty-one months’ service.” though ho still speaks as modesty of his •experiences as if he had never left the training camp.

The Rev.F. W. Isitt, the well-known Methodist minister, formerly secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, died on Saturday from heart failure, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin. The late Mr Isitt was born at Bedford on October 3, 1846, and uas educated at Bedford Grammar School and Richmond College. He engaged in business pursuits in Birmingham, Manchester, and London from 1860 1868, and arrived in Auckland in 1870. Ho was in the active ministry of the Wesleyan Church from 1870 till 1879, and after eight years retired on account of ill-health, 1887 to 1906. He was a strenuous worker in the NoLicense cause, and was vice-president of the New Zealand Alliance. He was appointed general secretary of the Alliance in 1900, but had to retire on account of ill-health.

News has been received by Mr A. J Ross, of Huiroa. concerning his son, Sergeant W. W. Ross, who is at present at the Mile End Military Hospital. London. Mrs K. M. Batchelor, who is one of the official visitors oi the New Zealand War Contingent Association, in a letter to Mr Ross, says that Sergeant Ross was badly, wounded in action in France, being injured in both logs, one ankle, and also bad a bad wound in his right arm. His elbow joint had been shattered, he had suffered a good deal of pain, and had undergone two operations. Although he is likely to be confined to bed for some time, he was improving, as bo was being looked after well, and Mrs Batchelor hoped to get him removed to the New Zealand Hospital at Walton on Thames. In a later communication, news was received that Sergeant Ross was still progressing favourably, and was able to sit up in”n chair, ft will be gratifying news to many in New Zealand that their wounded sons receive every attention, and that everything possible is done for their comfort.