PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir David Burnett has been chosen Lord Mayor-elect of London. Mr. E. Mason has been appointed honorary veterinary surgeon to "the Stratford A. and P. Association. The estate of the late H. O. vv illis, of tobacco fame, has been sworn at £5,21.4,356. "' ' .. ' The Hon. J. A. Millar, M.P. for Dunedin West,dms been granted another month's leave of absence 'from the House of Representatives. Baron von Bieberstein, late German Ambassador in London, was buried at Neuershauscn._ Herr fiollweg represented the Kaiser. The four-year-old son cf Mr Dickei;, manager of the." Riminui station at Kaimanuka,' was accidently drowned in the Waitotara river on Tuesday last (says the Waverley correspondent of the Patoa Press). ' j ,-i

Mr Ernest A. Belcher, 8.A., of Lincoln "College,•.■•Oxford, at present assistant-master and' house-tutor at Clifton College, Bristol, has.been appointed headmaster of * Christ's, College, Christchurch.

Mr C .A. Wilkinson, the recentlyelected M.P. for Egmont. was sworn in at Friday's sittiiig of the House of Representatives. After the ceremony he was cordially received by members, and took his seat on the front middle benches.

' At" the conclusion of the pitting of the Conciliation Council at New Plyraouth, in connection with • the Tar> ■rialri Plumber:;' di-ipute, a hearty vote of thanks was passed, to the Commissioner (Mr T. Harle Giles) for the? tactful, and efficient manner in which he had conducted the proceedings. -., !'Mc Edward .Treise Morshead, who. died suddenly on Saturday afternoon in New Plymouth, dropping dead near the iritei'seetion'of.Eobe and Powderham streets. Deceased was a septuagenarian,! and ; had ■ been under treatment for acute heart,disease, .i The late Mr Morshead,who was the son of Captain EdAvard Morshead, was born at Calstock, Cornwall in 1810. Eighteen years later he emigrated to New Plymouth in company with his father and 'family.',.. "He -joined the service of the Postal Department at New Plymouth in 1865} and. was afterwards located in various towns in the Dominion. !; He, last saw service in Wellington,','. where , he. retired about ten years ago. Upon his retirement he came t 6 New Plymouth, 'where !he has ever;, since resided, ' As -one,.; of the original members of the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers, he took part m the Maori War. The deceased gentleman was married to Miss Ellen 0. Parris, a daughter of the' .late* Major Parris, who survives him with two sons. Mr H E. Morshead, of_Wanganui, Mr Leslie Morshead, a ciyil engineer, cf London, " and two daughters, Mrs Percy Blundell, of Wellington; and Miss Morshead, of New Plymouth. Mr Morshead was passionately devoted to mush> and frequently r&lioyed as organist at St. Mary's Church. The interment will take place to-morrow.