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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 38, 8 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Rev. P. B. FrnsP” ,r . has been nominated for the Moderatorship of the Presbyterian General Assembly by the Wanganui Presbvtery.

Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States, is mentioned as the possible .successor to the late Count Marschell von Biebersteini at the German Embassy in London. | Mr. John Ross, who has already given substantial monetary assistance to Knox College, Dundein. has undertaken to defray the cost of erecting a college chapel." This represents a donation of some £2OOO. i Mr. A. Morton has 'icon re-elected! chairman of directors of the Mangorei; Dairy Company for the eighteenth | year in succession, having held that 1 position ever since the company was formed. i

By entering on the tenth year of his Pontificate, the Pope has upset the widespread belief that lie would not occupy the Papal chair for moro than nine years. This belief, or rather superstition, was due to the fact that the number nine seems to have exercised a marked influence over! the career of Pius X. He was thus' nine years at the siminarv as a student nine years a vicar at Tombolo, nine years an archpriest at Salzano, nine years a canon of Treviso Cathedral, and nine years Bishop of Mantua. According to gossip, the Pope, whose health has lately given rise to anxiety, did nbV expect to outlive nine years Pit the Vatican. .V ''.Mr John Douglas Hodson, who died at New Plymouth recently, was born in Cumberland, England, in 1841. He saw 20 years’ service as an engineer in the liners of different companies trading to the Mediterranean and China Seas. He also ran between Liverpool and the American coasts. He went through the Abyssinian campaign, and was one of the survivors of the White Star liner Atlantic, on which he was third engineer. Ho came out to the colonies in 1882 to serve in the Australian inter-State trade, and 15 years ago took up his residence in New Zealand, being for some time in the employ of the Union Company. He is survived by a wife and four children—two sous and two - daughters, the eldest being 19 years old.

Mr J. Brown has been re-elected chairman of the Taranaki Countj Council.

Cardinal Logno, at Maynooth College (says a London cable) consecrated Dr. Man nix, president of the College, as Co-adjutor Archbishop of Melbourne.

Mr Jerry Payne, who was the victim of a bushfalling accident at Mataimoana recently, is progressing favourably towards recovery in the local hospital, reports the Patea Press. Mr H. J. Brownlee, a Now Zealand student of architecture, has passed the final examination for the associateship in the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has been studying in England for some Utile while. Mi Brownlee was for some time in business in the Stratford district. Bishop Neligan preached the inaugural sermon in connection with the Manchester (Eng.) Diocesan Missionary Festival. He appears now to be in very good health. The Rev. A. F Smith (late Vicar of Northcote, Auckland) attended the festival, whose meetings were held at Morecambe. The Rev. H. 0. Hanby, who is w the Hamilton hospital, writing to a friend, says the operation of amputating his leg was quite successful, and that ho was wheeled out on the veiandah last week for a short time. His sister, who suffered from shock, is now able to get about, and his wife has practically recovered. The New Plymouth Labourers’ Union last night passed the following motion ;~“Tluu the best-thanks of the Union be conveyed to Mr H. YVilhs of the local Department of Labour, lot his courteous and patient attention to all matters pertaining to the welfare of our Union, and wishes bun all success in his new field of labour at Christchurch.” The executive of the Operative Tailors’ and Tailoresses’ Union of Taranaki made a presentation on Saturday to Mr Willis as a mark of thenappreciation of the commonsense, tact and energy displayed by lum calling tho time he has filled the position of Inspector of Factories and Awards lor the Taranaki district. _ In making the presentation the president spoke or tho kindly assistance and advice Mr Willis had always been ready to give to the workers.

Messrs. S. Bundle and A. J. Hoskin, who have been attending the 801 l Block Dairv Factory every, week since the inception of the company sixteen years ago, were last week presented each with an easy chair by the suppliers. In making the presentation, the Chairman (Mr J. S. Gonnett) eulogised the many good works accomplished by the' recipients and hoped they would live long to enjoy the fruitk of their labour.

Much sympathy is felt in New Plymouth (says the “News”) for Mr. and Mrs. S. Shaw, in the death of their youngest son, Hugh Wakefield, widen occurred last evening. The deceased,' who was only seventeen rears old, was a very bright boy, popular wita his fellows, and quite a brilliant scholar. He was educated at Nelson .College, where, his health failed him. causing him to. cut short a promising; scholastic career. Ho returned to his parents’ home fit New Plymouth, and for a. short'time attended the focal High School, ’ His illnbss, ’ however, grew from had to worse, and Ids Untimely end’was-licit unbxpected. ' it,i- t; 1 1 ,; i;. i! - , > ■/ .<