PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 16, 11 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Messrs. C. Davis, C. J. Preston, J. Cocker, G. Cockerfcon, and D. A. Stewart now constitute the Norrnanby Town Board.

The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) will visit New Plymouth this week on Prison Board business. Major Andrew, of the 116th Mahrattas, and a native of Christchurch, has been promoted to be LieutenantColonel Andrew. He recently completed a political mission in India, and is said to have accomplished his task with tact and ability.

Mr. W. M. Singleton, assistant Hairy Commissioner, who is at present on a trip to Canada, is expected back by the Makura, which is uue at Auckland from Vancouver on September 24.

Mr John Prior, the first and a most respected barrister and solicitor, of Eoilding, died yesterday, aged 70, states a Press Association message. Ho loaves a widow, four sons, and four daughters to mourn his loss. Mr Prior settled in Sanson 37 years ago, and came to Podding a few years later.

“Tho Times” announces that Commander E. R. G. R. Evans, R.N., second in command, under Captain Scott, of tho British Antarctic Expedition, will he leaving England shortly for Now Zealand, where ho will resume command of the Terra Nova, which will proceed to tho polar regions to meet Captain Scott and his party.

Tho demise of Mrs. W. Fever, after a long illness, is reported hy tne FI tham “Argus.” Deceased, with hei husband,, was an old identity in the district, having followed farming pursuits for quite a number of years, latterly on the Lower Stuart Road, and only a couple of years back retired to town life. Deceased leaves five sons and two daughters, well-known throughout the district. To Mr. W. Fo|or and his family much sympatay wiff be extended in their bereavement.

Mr James Drysdale Wilson, eightytwo years of age, a survivor of tho famous six hundred at Balaclava, was married quietly a week ago to a lady seven years his junior. Mr M ilson was horn in Edinburgh, and came to New Zealand 45 years ago. He joined the 10th Royal Hussars in 1851, and arrived at the Crimea on the eye of the Battle of Balaclava, and was in the famous charge. Ho saw other service in tho Crimea, and possesses three war medals—lndian. Crimean and Turkish. When His Majesty tho King, then Duke of York, was in. New Zealand, lie conversed with Wilson, who said he was a member of his father’s old regiment.

A quiet wedding was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, this morning, when Miss Mary D.ivis, ot Napier, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Mr. William Howes Reader, second son of Mr. Thomas Reader, of Opunake Road, Stratford. The Rev. W. A. Butler was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was attended by Miss Lascolles as bridesmaid, was dressed in a gie.\ travelling costume, with hat to match. Mr. C. R. Reader (brother of ttie bridegroom) acted as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Reader left by the mail tram for Wanganui, where cite honeymoon is to be spent. The couple will take U p their residence in V> hangamomona. Viscount Haldane, the new Lord Chancellor, thought not a lamous former athlete like Ins predecessor, has inherited a remarkaole power or walking. His grandfather was still a notable pedestrian in bis eightythird year, and there is a legend that his grand-uncle, for whom a clerical friend had prayed as “Thine aged, and infirm servant,” invited the minister to take a short stroll before evening service, and left him so exhausted that ho fell into a profound slumber, and could hardly lie aroused to perform his duty. Lord Haldane himself, though he has not yet rivalled his brother s record of 104 miles in 31 hours, at one time used to go for a week-end walk from London to Brighton.