PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 60, 4 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., left by tin mail train this morning for Wellington. Constable P. Felton, of Auckland, is spending a fortnight’s holiday with his parents in Stratford. Mr. J. Thornton, who has held the position of head master of Te Auto College for Maori hoys, has been compelled to resign on account cf illhealth. The Rev. J. 0. Feetham has been appointed Anglican Bishop of North Queensland in succession to Bishop Frodsham, who has retired owing to ill-health.

Professor MacMillan Brown has arrived from a six months’ trip to the Malay Archipelago. Ho will sail for New Zealand on November 9.

Major-General Godley, who left on a departmental visit to Australia a fortnight ago, is at present in Melbourne, and is the guest of the Governor of Victoria (Sir John Fuller). Emmanuel HI., King of Italy, proposes to assume the additional title of Roman Emperor, so it is reported on the Continent. It is believed that hi* international prestige will he enhanced by the restoration of Imperial dignity.'

Mr. and Mrs. Openshaw, of Lepperton, were tendered a farewell social by the residents of the district on Thursday night, and presented with a magnificent solid silver tea service bearing the following inscription: “To Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Openshaw, from their Taranaki friends.—3l-10-1912.” Mr W. J. Bryan (the celebrated American who has several times stood for tlio Presidency), Hr. Starr Jordan (of the Stanford Belaud. University), Air. J. A. McDonald (editor of the ‘Toronto Globe’), and Rev. Charles Aked (of San Francisco), will probably 1 visit New Zealand in 1913 to deliver lectures on the oneness of onr common interests, and to make a strong appeal for world peace and friendship. Mr. V. Hodson, of the Te Aro Telegraph Office staff, has resigned from die service to take up an appointment with the Marconi Wireless Company, at Sydney. Mr. Johnston, of the Wellington Telegraph Office, is also leaving New Zealand to 'bake up wireless work in Australia. Both officers have been studying wireless for some time past (reports the ‘Dominion’), and will leave Wellington on November 22. Miss Jessie Orr, the recently appointed lady superintendent cf the Auckland Hospital) will reach New Zealand about the'middle of December. An authority on nursing matters writing to the Board from England, remarked that Miss Orr was a woman of pronounced personality with a record of fifteen years’ continuous training, part of which was spent at Guy’s Hospital, London. She is a Scottish lady whose father was a solicitor prior to his death. Latterly she has been matron of the Taunton Hospital, and it is considered that her abilities render her "eminently suited for the position to which she lias been appointed in Auckland. Sandy Alexander, a negro who has attained the great age cf ill,'and who was a servant in White House when Mr. Polk was President, on September 6 married Susia McGhee, a blushing bride of 60, at Helena, Arkansas. The age of the bridegroom is established by his own record and memory of people who knew him seventy years ago as “T/ncle Sandy,” with three grownup children. Alexander attributes his activity and health to moderate living, bgt he is 'neither a teetotaler nor a non-smoker. He recollects vividly the British troops arriving in Washington in 1812, and the burning dpwn of White House and the Legislative buildings. Mr. D. Buick, M.P., at the Palmerston North Show on Friday, formally opened the Wheeler Memorial Sheep Pavilion, which had been erected in memory of the late Mr. C. G. Wheelsr. Mr. Buick referred to Mr. Wheeler as one of the brightest lights of the Manawatu A. and P. Association. The building, lie added, had been erected as a lasting memorial to Mr. Wheeler, who had been a member of the committee of the association from its inception, and had done, perhaps, more than any other man, over a period of twenty-four years, for the association’s advancement and welfare. Mr. Wheeler had been a noted sheep-breeder, president of the North Island Sheep Breeders’ Association, and originator of the Romney Sheep Breeders’ Association. He had also been president up to the time of his death. It had been Mr. Wheeler’s ambition that suitable accommodation should he provided for the sheep classes, and the committee thought that no more suitable memorial could he erected to his memory than a building of this character.