PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 32, 1 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. M. King has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Taxes. Field-Marshal Lord .Roberts attained his BUth birthday yesterday . Mr. C. Potts returned to Stratford this morning after a short holiday in Auckland.

The death of Admiral Richards, who served on the Australian station m ihe early fifties, is announced oy cable. Mr A. P. Dryden, Chief Postmaster, of New Plymouth, nas left for Ciui.sxcluii'cti to relievo Mr R. B. Moms. The King of Greece curtailed his holiday and returned home suddenly, says a cable from Copenhagen. Mr. Jack Jenlanson, of Jonkinson Bros., coachbuilders, Eltham, who leaves for Auckland shortly, was presented with an umbrella and a pipe and case, on behalf of the staff. The death occurred, at ids residence, Finnerty Road, Ngaire, of Mr George Chamberlain, at tiio age of 76. ine interment will take place at the Kopnatama Cemetery to-morrow (Wednesday).

Sir David Burnett, who has been chosen Lord Mayor-elect of London, is a member of the firm of BonsJield, Bdrnett, and'Baddeloy, surveyors, and is sixty-one years of age. Sir David is one of His Majesty’s Lieutenants of the City of London and has been an alderman since 1902. Mr. T. McKeown has disposed of Ids well-known stationery, fancy goods, and bookseller’s business in Broadway, to Mr. Alfred Moon, of Wanganui a previous transaction having fallen through. Mr. Moon was unfortunately taken ill on his arrival in Stratford, but will he about in a few days again, and will immediately take possession. Mr. Moon is a brother of Mrs. Henry Lacey, a well-known Cardiff settler.

Mr C. Kettle, who was foreman in the oleo department at the Waitara Freezing Works, has. been transferred to Australia, and will likely take up a position in Messrs Borthwick’s Queensland works (reports the Mail). The foremen of the local works presented him with a set of military hair brushes and Mrs Kettle with a gold pendant. The appointment of Mr Hugh Stewart, 8.A., Cambridge, as professor of classics at Canterbury College was con firmed by the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College yesterday. He will take up his duties at the beginning of next year. Mr Stewart is single, 28 years of age, and has had three years and a half, experience teaching Latin and Greek, and at the time he applied lie was assistant lecturer in Latin and Greek in the University of Liverpool. He is a foundation scholar at Fettes College, Edinburgh, a Fettes’ exhibitioner and John Welsh classical bursar. Mr Stewart gained the university prize for Latin verse, is a foundation scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge,_ where he obtained first-class honours in classics.

Another of Inglewood’s earliest settlors has been called “across the bar” in the person of Mrs Tilly, relict of the late Mr Tilly, who, after a long and painful illness (states the Record), passed away on Friday last. Mr and Mrs Tilly were amongst Inglewood’s very early settlers. They were married in London in 1854, and left shortly afterwards for Sydney, and in the following year went to Dunedin, where they lived until 1873: then they went to New Plymouth and later to Inglewood, where Mr Tilly was employed on the erection of the first Inglewood hotel and many other of the town buildings. The late Mrs Tilly has had to bear her cross of bereavement, as she lost her husband twenty-five years ago, he having died on Nov. 27th, 1887 ; while her oldest son Thomas was, at the ago of 36, drowned whilst bathing in the Maketawa river. The late Mrs Tilly leaves a grown-up family of two sons and three daughters to mourn the loss of an affectionate and revered mother. Of the sons, John has always had his home with his mother, and William is settled in Auckland; and of the daughters, Mrs John Rowe and Mrs W. H. Franklyn are resident in Inglewood, and Miss Louisa is in Wellington.