PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 51, 24 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Allen E. Wilson, draughtsman of the Public Works Department Wanganui, has been transferred to Stratford. Mr. Wilson will succeed Mr. T. C. V. Rabone, who will leave shortly for Whangamomona. Mr. E. H. Robinson, late of Stratford, has been successful in securing a position of shop-walker in Messrs. Farmer and Co.’s, one of the leading draperyo sbablishment in Sydney. Mr. Robinson has been very fortunate in getting this employment, as the experience to be gained in such a house will prove invaluable later on. Mr Alexander Kirkpatrick, who has been in business in Woodviile for the past nine years, died suddenly. Ho had-an apoplectic seizure on Friday morning, and shortly afterwards became unconscious, and remained so ti.l he died. Deceased was a very worthy 1 citizen, He had been a Borough Councillor for some years, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. School Committee, and no-license Council. ' He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an elder. He was only 50 years of age, and leaves a widow and eight young children to mourn their loss. The news that Peru’s new President '•'■is to be the son of an Englishman named Billinghurst remindsdbe Westminster Gazette how many Englishmen by birth or adoption have ruled foreign countries. One Englishman, Nicholas Brakespeare, has been Pope, and another, John of Gaunt, was actually " ' crowned King of Castile and Leon at

■ Santiago. Till quite recent times,the ' ; claim of our sovereigns to the French ■ Crown was maintained. When the Duke of Cumberland assumed the crown of Hanover, he was, to all intents, an Englishman, as was Leopold when ho was made King of the Belgians. One ’ English Prince might have ruled Greece and another, the Duke of Connaught, a German Principality, and, to go further East, an Englishman is Rajah of Sarawak. Mr F; J. Stilling, who lately went to Auckland to practice his profession, was for some time and till the day of Ids departure from Dunedin a member of the Dunedin City Council., Appreciation of his work on the southern council has followed Mr Stilling north, in the shape of a mounted and framed resolution passed in the council/ by his ex-colleagues. This was presented to Mr Stilling by Mr 0. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland, prior to the usual business at the last meeting of the City Council. Mr Stilling, iln reply, expressed his appreciation of the kindiy consideration shown him that evening by the chief local body of the -North • Island (if the Wellington City Council would permit him to say so), at the request of the chief local body in the South Island (if _ his Christchurch friends would forgive him for the assertion). ___________