PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 19 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr F. J. Ramsay, assistant towr clerk at Gore, has been appointed towr clerk at Balchitha out of 29 applicants

His Excellency the Governor wil; address a meeting of farmers unde: the auspices of the Taranaki Agricultural Society in New Plymouth on October 15th.

Mr J. Johnson, head Government grader, of Moturoa Freezing Works, was married yesterday at New Plymouth to Miss Ada Winifred Birch, late of the Scarlet Troubadours. General Nogi was buried with great military honours, states a message from Tokio. Prince Arthur of Connaught took part in the obsequies. The Rev. W. Heckett, of Samoa and Madagascar, and Miss Crouch, of Salem, India, who form the London Missionary Society’s deputation to New Zealand, have arrived in Auckland.

Mr F. H. Anderson, of the Oamaru branch of the N.Z. L. and M.A. Co., arrived in Stratford yesterday. Mr Anderson will be associated with Mr Percy Budd in the stock department of tlie Stratford branch. Mr. Anderson has had Valuable and extensive experience in wool and hides, and his expert knowledge should'make him a decided atiquisitioh to the branch. The Rev. D. Maclennan, of Edeudale, and formerly of Chalmers Church, Dunedin, Was presented with a purse of, sovereigns, in the name of the ladies of the parish, at the annual social meeting of the congregation, held at''Matatifa Island' Church.

Mr John Prior, formerly of Timaru, Ohihalru,! Dunedin' and Auckland, and for the past foUr‘years of Masterton, died suddenly last f night. H,e brother* of Mr'William Pryor, organiser of the Employers’ Association. Mr H. R. Spence, late Collector of Customs at Invercargill, who is at present, Jp,Wellington, en route to London, to become New Zealand Customs expert there, will leave by the Manuka on Friday. Mr and Mrs Eaton, of Rexwoocl street,; Carterton, celebrated their golden 1 wedding on Friday. Mr. Eaton arrived. in Wellington in the ship Gleaner in 1838, and in 1862 was married, to a daughter of the late Mr John Hooper, of the Taita, Hutt, where they lived for ten years. Forty years ago Mr and Mrs Eaton removed to Carterton, and have resided there ever since.

There passed away on Sunday at her late residence, Papawai (states the Wairarapa Age) Ng.vturi HemaVa, wife of Henare Parata, and by her first marriage wife of Manihera Rangiakawhati. Deceased was one of the few chieftainesses of _the following Hapus: Ngatimoe, Ngat.rua, Ngatimuretu, and several other hapus. There will be a big tangi at Papawai. ' Mr N. Nelson, who resigned the position of overseer to the Eketahuna County Council, to take up farming in the Taranaki district, was presented with a large cut-glass ink pot set in a silver stand, by members of the Eketahuna County Council on Saturday. Mr Nelson was also handed a silver cheese and a butter ,and biscuit dish, for Mrs Nelson.' The County employees presented Mr Nelson witli two sil-ver-mounted pipes and a cigar-holder. Mr J. Fosberry Mills, son of Sir James Mills, achieved distinction at the recent Bisloy shooting compet.tions between rival teams of English public schools. Mr Mills, who was a member of the Eton team, made top score for his school. Out of seven shots at 600 yards he made six bull’s-eyes and one centre.

Mr A. Maunder, of the Ciiief Engineer’s staff of the Railway Department, who has boon retired on superannuation, was presented with two Morris chairs and a set of pipes from the combined staffs of the Head and District Engineering offices.

Archbishop Redwood will leave Wellington on September 26 en route to Vancouver. He will be absent from New Zealand for about six months in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. He will make a brief stay and will then proceed to Rome, where he is to have an audience with and report to his Holiness the Pope on the affairs of the Archdiocese, in New Zealand. New Zealand is now a domain of the Roman Catholic Church, the head of which is expected to report personally to the Pope once in every five years. The Very Rev. Doan O’Shea will act as administrator of the Diocese during absence. Rice, who discovered the Tunnel mine, died at Gundagai (New South Wales) recently, aged 61 years. In 1906 ho went to work at Long Flat. He worked an old shaft there, and after sinking a few feet came on rich stnno, and dollied £ISOO worth of gold in a few minutes. He put down a fresh shaft, and secured 24 tons of stone averaging 15oz to the ton. In the next few years everything ho touched seemed to turn into gold. He made several fortunes and spent them. Two years ago he sold out all his interests in the Long Tunnel mine for very little, and a few weeks after thousands of pounds’ worth of gold was taken from it, and ever since the mine has contimed to give rich returns. Rice, who was single, died a poor man. He has no relatives in the State.

Cr. Tate has resigned from tho Taranaki County Council, owing to illhealth.

Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, who is giving splendid moral training to the young in many places, and who is to address various meetings on Saturday and Sunday in Stratford, is a member of the Cimrcli of England. Her addresses however, are quite undenominational.

The curates who have followed one anotiior in quick succession in tlie parish of St. Mark’s, Clerkenwell, nave been the Revs. Brains, Beef, Lamb, Mutton, and (states the Biimingham Weekly Post) the vicar is the Rev, Mr Bullock. Captain Sinker, until recently in command of tho Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross, was among tiie passengers by the Victoria for Sydney. Captain Sinker was so severely attacked by sunstroke and malaria during the Mission steamer’s last voyage that ho was compelled to give up the command. Ho is now sufficiently recovered to undertake cue voyage to England. Mrs. Sinker accompanies him. Another of the pioneers of the Master ton district, in tho person of Mrs G. W. Mace, of Brammorton, passed away on Monday morning at the advanced age of eighty-five years, the immediate cause of death being pneumonia. Tho deceased lady arrived in Now Zealand from the Old Country nearly seventy years ago, and had resided nearly ever since in tho Waira T rapa. She was pre-deceased by her husband in 1907. Her surviving family are Mrs Walter Mace, Mrs Baird (Brammorton), and Mrs Bradbury (New Plymouth). Sho also leaves a number of grand-children and great-grand-children.