PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 12 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tho Mikado welcomed Prince Arthur, of Connaught.—Tokio cable. Obituary: Captain Whitten, member of the Papuan Legislative Council. —Sydney cable. Major-General Godley, C. 8., is still indisposed, and unable to attend to his regular duties. Mr J. W. Kay, national secretary of tho electoral branch of the United Labour Party, is at present in New Plymouth. Archbishop Redwood leaves Auckland by tho Manama for Vancouver on September 2d, en route to the Old Country, returning to New Zealand via the Suez Canal. Mr. Hodgkinson, technical instructor to tho Wanganui Education Board, ia at present confined to his house, owing to an attack of influenza. Mr. F. Pirani has expressed his intention of practically retiring from public life during tho next twelve months.

. Mr William Crowe, who arrived in Lyttelton in 1863, died at Gore on Monday, aged eighty years. Ho loaves a widow, three sons, and five daughters. Malcolm Champion, the New Zealand crack swimmer, who was one of the Australasian representatives at the Olympic games, returned by the Athenic, and >vont on to Auckland last night.

Mr. H. Bell was farewelled at the Mathieson Street Church, Wanganui, , on Monday, and was_the recipient of a presentation. Mr Bell leaves for Australia to-day,- where he will pursue his studies to fit himself for fuller service in the evangelistic field. Mr Frederick Reyling, secretary of the. Trades and Labour Council, died last night, after eight weeks’ illness (says a Wellington wire). Deceased had been secretary of the Council for the last seven years. The funeral of the Mikado will occupy September 13, 14. and 15 owing to the distance from Tokio to Kioto being 328 miles. Since the deceased first ruled Westernised Japan, the obsequies are expected to establish a precedent. ,

A trip round the world has just been completed by Mr. A. A. Corrigan, sometime manager of the Wellington D.1.C., who returned by the Athonic on Tuesday. Mr. Corrigan was away for seven months, three and a half of which were spent in England. Mr. H. Norman Liardet, General Manager for New Zealand of the Ocean Fire and Accident Assurance Corporation, accompanied by Mrs. Liardet, and daughter, are spending a few days in Stratford. Mr William Bell, a gold miner in the early days', died in the hospital at Gore'on Monday, aged eighty-six years. He was unmarried, and arrived in New Zealand in 1863, being associated for many years with Southland goldfields, eventually removing to Waikaia- . Mr W. Crotfe, of Lepperton, will leave for the Old Country some time in March or early in April. Mr Crowe visited England only two years ago. Ho goes on this occasion to his native village, Wyndermere, in the Lake district, and ho may possibly settle down there for all time. The statue of Florence Nightingale which is being erected as an appreciative memorial from the City of Loudon in the Guildhall is almost completed now by. the Mr Walter Morrett, and is described as a very beautiful example of sympathetic statuary (writes a London correspondent under date August 2). It is three foot in height, -and shows Miss Nightingale as the famous “Ladv of the Lamp,” setting out on one of her deeds of mercy, carrying in one hand a light, while the other hand shields her l eyes from its glare. Mr. Clave Deacon has forwarded to the chairman of the New Plymouth Carnegie Library a photograph of Mr F. A. Carrington, the father of the settlement, with some biographical details. This will be a valuable addition to the collection of photographs of old worthies now being formed. A memorial to Will Adams, the first English resident in Japan, was unveiled by the British Ambassador on June 16 over the grave in Tokio where the famous pilot lies beside his Japanese wife. Will Adams, who was a navigator, landed in Japan in 1600, and was kept in the country by the Emperor on account of his knowledge

of ships. He was presented with an ■ estate, refused permission To return <#*to England, and died in Japan in 1620. Mr. Borden, the Canadian Premier, is described by the Toronto correspondent of “The Times” as having steadiness, sobriety, and solidity, a mind developed and balanced by a long and severe legal training, a temper which reveals nothing of the evangelical ardour of the natural orator, and perhaps little of the dexterity which wo associate with the practical politician. Although only of medium height, he weighs over list, and, while lacking the picturesque personality of Sir Wilfred Laurier. and inferior to the Liberal leader in elonuence and elegance of speech, his whole bearing suggests power, reserve, and dignity.