PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Ward claims to bo a p:o----noet because ho has been over fiftythree years in New Zealand. The death of Count Bioherstein, Gorman Ambassaclof in London, is announced. Constable Bleaspl, of Stratford,, is at present in HaArora on relieving duty.' ■ The death of Mr Hector McKinnon, a Highlander, of Caversham, aged 105 years, is announced per Press Association. \ Commissioner Howard has succeeded Mr Bramwell Booth as Chief of the Staff.—(London cable). Mr A. D. Blick, architect, Stratford, has been unexpectedly called away on business in Wellington. Ho left by the mail train this morning. His Excellency the Governor hopes . to be able to attend tho forthcoming and P. Show at Hastings, Alfred Okoy, son of Mr H. Op.>)V, M.P., of New __Plymouth, was united in matrimony *to Miss Ruby Scott, of Waipukurau at Napier last Wednesday. Captain R. J. S. Sodden (N.Z. Staff Corps) is at present an inmate of tho King Edwards Military Hospital, making a rapid recovery from an operation for appendicitis. The marriage took place to-day at the Cardiff Church of Mr Albert Thomas Mandor, and Miss Minnie Louise Belcher, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. T Belcher, of the Climio road. , , Mr and Mrs J. B. Campbell left this morning bv the mail train on a fortnight’s holiday visit to Hastings. *■ Mr- Campbell was surrounded by a host of friends on the station, all of whom, congratulated him on his partial recovery from a severe illness, expressing the hope that on his .return to Stratford ho would be completely restored lx good health.

Rov. Frank MacDonald, of Palmerston Baptist Church, received an unanimous call from the church at Mosgiel, which ho will accept. Ho will leave for Mosgiel in two months’ time.

Mrs Loliano, aged 108, has just died at Young, New South Wales. Her descendants have reached tnc fifth generation. Master Arthur Adams, sou of Mr L. J. Adams, of Manawapou road, sustained a fracture of one let; through striking it against the other while walking into Hawora on Monday, reports the Star. Adams was taken to the hospital.

Tho Deacons of Trinity Church, T.maru, have just appointed to the pos.t.on of church officer Mr Alex Robertson, recently from Dunblane, Scotland. Mr Robertson has been for 2£ years in the “Black Watch,” Royal Highlanders, and was Colour-Sergeant in “C Company, Gth Battalion. He holds the good conduct medal and the South African modal (reports the Herald), and lias tho very highest credentials from tho United Free Church minister, from tho Major of his regiment and the Provost of Dunblane.

“From tiio North Capo to tho Bluff there is a very general regret that bis Excellency is soon to leave ns,” said the Prime Minister on Monday evening when speaking to the gathering of pioneers in the Town Hall after Lord Islington had addressed tho meeting, and incidentally mentioned that lie would not have the opportunity of speaking at another Dominion Day gathering. Mr Massey'-continu-ed: "Ho is leaving iis to take up a more important position, and Ids future career will be watched with very great interest by all in New Zealand.” Tho heartiness of the applause which greeted these remarks carried their own testimony of sincerity.—N.Z. Times. John Inman, after eighty year's of service,'is still at work at the low shaft of the Denby Grange Collerios (England). Although eighty-five years old, ho is in charge’of an engine, and is able to give the machinery all tho attention it requires, working full time each day and sometimes seven days a week. Inman was only fiv<4 years old when ho began work as a “trapper,” opening and closing the underground doors through which the trucks pass on their way from tho working face toAho shaft. For those duties ho received fourpence a day. Although offered an opportunity of retiring on a pension, he prefers remaining with his engine, ' For tho time being Lord Liverpool, Governor-designate of New Zealand, definitely' declines all invitations to be interviewed, wrote the London correspondent of the N.Z. Times on August 16th. His excuse is, in effect, that ho has really nothing to say, and, as tho Irishman put it, “no time to say it in,” Ono feels inclined to accept the excuse with good grace because it is within one’s knowledge that Lord Liverpool, though entirely free from political trammels, has always been an uncommonly busy man, and that'at present he is at work from early morning till late at night making preparations for his temporary exile from the Old Country. These involve him in a tremendous amount of personal work, for Lord Liverpool, unlike many of his social kind, has never been a man to do things by deputy., He believes in doing things himself, and among military folk has tho reputation of being a most strenuous worker.