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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1916, Page 4

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Mr. A. E. McGregor, chief cleric at the Nelson Post Office, has been promoted to be chief .postmaster at Hokittka. A Sydney cable announces the death of the Rev. Charles Stead, ex-president of the Methodist Confeence. A Napier message reports the death of Captain Richard Todd, superintendent of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, aged 71 years. A New York cable reports the death of Mr. James J. Hill, the American railway king, at St, Paul, Minnesota. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of D.' F. G. Watton, a Crimean veteran, who also served throughout the New Zealand war. M. W. S. Kirkwood, late of Tobermory, was farewellcd yesterday by Mackey Logan's staff, prior to his departure to Auckland last night. He will he a member of the next reinforcements. It is understood that Mr. Wade, for some years conductor of the Wanganni Garrison Band, is leaving for Australia. It is said that he has been appointed to succeed Mr. McLeod at Ipswich, Queensland. Mr. S. G. Holland, son of Mr. H. Holland, Mayor of Christehnrcli, who is in training at Featherston, has been promoted from the position of sergeantmajor to lieutenant in the Artillery, and now is officer commanding the artillery ir the Seventeenth Reinforcements.Lieutenant W. Mackenzie, of the Machine Gun Corps, writing to Mr. W. Jennings, M.P., from Grantham, on April 0, and who was one of four that left Buenos Aires with Lieutenant Harold Jennings, states that lie is the only one left now, as the other three have gone to the "Great Beyond." The remuneration received by the party averaged about £7OO per annum. Mrs. Arthur Mozley, of Malvern View, Christ Church road, Cheltenham, who celebrated her one hundred and first birthday recently, is one of the eleven children of the late Mr. Alfred Kempe, a noted antiquary. Three others survive, aged 1)4, 8(i, and 84 respectively, and two reached 07, one being the Rev. E. Kempe, for, 52 years rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, and Prebendary of St. Paul's. An old settler, Mr. Thomas Gilbert, of Woodville, Hawke's Bay, died on Wednesday, in his 82nd year. He came.to New Zealand in the Indian Queen 50 years ago, and was engaged in farming at Ohariu Valley, near Wellington, until his removal, about 27 years ago, to Woodville, where he aho engaged in farming. He was the eldest son of Mr. John Gilbert, of Water Orton, Warwickshire, Kngland. Mr. Gilbert leaves h widow and eight sons and two daughters. One of the sons is at the front. Mr. Gilbert's brother lives at Fernlea Ngaruawahia.