PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sergeant Bon. QuOliam is spending a few days' sick leave at New Plymouth, Mr, Justice Denniston passed through New IPlymouth yesterday, on his way from Auckland to Wellington. Messrs. Malone and King havb been appointed solicitors at Stratford to the State Advances Office. At the English Church, Waitotara, j on Thursday Miss Freda Lenofe Morse, of Waitotara, was married to Mr. Alfred Harold Handley,'of Nukumaru. A cablegram lias been received by Monsignor Brodie from Sydney stating that Dr. Cleary, Roman Cathplio Bishop of Auckland, is making good progress towards recovery. On the eve of Qua departure from Patea to take up duty at Turakina, Mr. Paris, a much esteemed member of the railway staff, was presented with a marble clock, regret being expressed at his transfer.

At the Normanby Presbyterian Church on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Edward K. Tippott, son of Mr. John Tippett, of Christehureh, was married to Miss Elizabeth Moore Williams, daughter of the lata Mr. and Mrs. John Moore Williams, of Nielaton, Scotland. Word was received in Eltham on Thursday that Private Donald McLeod, of Eltham, who left as an ambulance man with the main expeditionary force, had been sent to the Malta hospital slightly sick. At a farewell social tendered to Mr. and Mrs. John Russell and Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Johnston at Mania on Wednesday, under the auspices of the Gun Club, Mr. Russell was presented with a cut glass liquor stand in an oak frame, Mrs. Russell receiving a silver-mounted salad bowl, ami Mr. Johnston a gold sovereign vase,

The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of ,Mrs. Ward, widow of the late Mr. Joe Ward. Mrs. Ward, who was an old Taranaki settler, was 78 years of age. 6he was a daughter of the late Mr. Phillip Moon, and came out from Home with her parents in the Blenheim, arriving here on November 7. 1542. A few weeks ago she had a stroke of paralysis, from which she never recovered. She leaves a numerous family. Mr. J. 1,. Martin, who has been absent in the United States during the past two years, was, says the Star, expected to return to Hawera by last night's