PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 44, 15 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tho death is announced of Mr Thomas Manifold, a very old resident of Christchurch, at the age of seventyfive years. Mr. H. G. Sterling, teller in the Grey mouth branch of ttie Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to Sydney, and will be succeeded by Mr. J. CaradUs, of Eketahuna. Mr. Thomas Scott-Smith, of Blenheim, until recently a Stipendiary 'Magistrate, and formerly in pract.co as a solicitor, at Eketahuna and elsewhere, has been adjudicated jankrupt. For tho position of clerk to the Whangarei County Council there were , forty-iwo applicants. Mr H. C. Hemphill, of Paparoa, was appointed on his own conditions, which considerably varied from those asked by tho Council, Tho death occurred at Buenos Ayres on July 17th, from typhoid fever, of Mr. J. T. Pinfold, eldest son of tho Rev. J. T. Pinfold, of Roslyn Methodist; Church, and formerly of Pahiat.ua. Deceased (who was born in Dunedin) was 23 years of ago. Mr. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A., New South Wales, is concerned as to how the prison journal proposed to be established by the State Government is to bo conducted. “How does the Minister propose to get over the difficulty of securing an editor, seeing there are no journalists in gaol?” ho asked tho Attor-ney-General the other day. “Under the legislation which is now in contemplation there may be,” .answered Mr. Holman..'! ; ; • I • ’ The Prince of Wales, who recently Tethrnecl 'froin some months’ spay in Frainie^'is a hero of many amusing stones;'one of the Beet of which is the following':—Soon 1 after he arrived at (isborhe College a fourth-term cadet, sebing that he Was , a now boy, iVeht up to him with th'd usual qudstion: “Whitifs 1 yohr'' hahle ?” “Edward,” ’Saidl'' thfe : : 'Prince l . |f i ; -‘ i Edwai , d what? ''Haven’t'/ joU 1 got * afty ' other name:?”, “Edward 1 fiJf ’Wales.” ■ The elder boy he' said, “hyoidr© the Mihp; ' ahe ‘you?’* ,:aud i walked on. b i ',l\ -ft? |«%ly-ap-j pointed FmaiTcial'Adviser to the Chinese Government, was married at Ceylon to Miss Jeannie Wark Xlobins, who is a New Zealander by birth. She has .been a great traveller, and it was during a tour of China that she and Dr. Morrison first met. For two years she has acted as his private secretary. AVhen Dr. Morrison made up his vUUjpd'itfl. ahagclon. journalispr apd leave f ,P,ekin,i much.spepplatYj, l ) l as 'ith«a'PM)Vas ? ,piyer f h?3,jieport.ea qecfaration’of his intention to sell his famous library of books on China—said to he th6 hnbbt 1 collectilbii in the world. Then Y ‘’caihe'fh'e ! ' dramatic announcement by ’''Fr&id’eht Yuan' Shih Kail that China heeded; the 1 doctor’s services in order ' J 'that 1 his 'g'reat gifts,, knowledge and influence 1 might be retained for the new Republic. : ;/ ~r , The late General Booth left private property value £487 19s, which he gives ito the Salvation Array. Under a codicil in the will ho deals with pro./perty of the presentestimated value of £5295, subject to duties and some expenses, representing moneys which * were many years ago settled by tho late Henry Heed on tho General L»r his private use. It was this provision which enabled him throughout his life to draw no stipend or remuneration of any kind from the funds of the Salvation Army. The General divides ibis settled property among his children, General Bramweli Booth, Catherine, Marion, Herbert, Eva and Lucy, in exercise of the power given to him by the settlement. The name of Mr. Ballington Booth is not included. The Lptidon correspondent of the Wellington ‘Post’ states that a proposal to acquire the house at Nottingham in which General Booth was born, as a local or national memorial of his work, has already taken practical form —-a Is subscription list has opened. The owners of the property have asked £ISOO for a block of three cottages, the centre one being the General’s old home. At St. Mark’s Church, Wellington, on Thursday afternoon, Captain Estcourb (of the Scots’ Greys), A.D.C. to His Excellency Lord Islington, was married to Miss Anson. It was a very quiet wedding. The floral arrangements within the church were unusually beautiful. It was a pink wedding—a rose wedding. Summer roses bloomed and filled the air with fragrance as the bridal party entered the church. The bride, who was given away by His Excellency, wore a beautiful and simple gown of soft white satin, the corsage outlined with pearls, a lovely veil of old laco fell from a small coronal of orange blossoms. Her shower bouquet was of lillics of the valley and white roses. The bridesmaids were the Hon. Joan Dickson-Poynder, and Miss Anson. The latter wore a pale heliotrope gown, hat trimmed with heliotrope, and carried a boumiet of Marechal Neil roses tied with broad heliotrope ribbon. The Hon Joan DicksouPoynder’s frock was of soft pink ninon, her hat was trimmed with pink, and she carried a bouquet of pale pink roses tied with broad pink _ ribbons. £he Bishop of Wellington officiated, as*#!sted by the vicar of St. Mark’s.