PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 6 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Islington leave Wellington today for Christchurch to attend the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Soring Meeting. On Thursday Lord Islington will meet leading agriculturists of the Canterbury district, and on Friday Lord and Lady Islington will attend the Canterbury Show. On llth November Lady Islington will leave Christchurch for Wellington, but His Excellency, who is to visit Tiinaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill will not return until 17th November.

The Hon. Joan Dickson-Poynder left Auckland on Monday by the Maheno for Sydney, en route for England.

Mr. Robert McNab has left Invercargill for his Knavdale property, and will proceed to Dunedin this week (says the ‘Southland Times’).

The Rev. Harry Johnson, of Bradford, England, has accepted the pas orate of Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch, and will leave England for New Zealand in January.

Mr Olaf E. Stout, 8.R., LL.B. (Canbridge), son of the Chief Justice of New Zealand, who has been studying law at Lincoln’s Inn, London, has pass ed his final examination as a barri; ter. Mr. John Humphries, one of the first settlers in the Manchester block, Feilding, died at Feilding on Monday, i aged 73 years. The deceased came to j New Zealand thirty-eight years ago, and took up land at Makino, which he farmed up to four years ago. He [leaves a widow, four sons, and five daughters. The late Sir Wm. Steward was accorded a military funeral on Monday. There was a large attendance, notwithstanding heavy rain. All the I cal hod ies were represented, and the Territorials and cadets formed a military escort. The Rev. Mackenzie Gihsoii officiated in the church and at the graveside. Business people closed their oromises during the time of the funeral. “King” Mahuta has built a very lino new residence at Hukanui, a short distance from Waahi. The house is up to date in every respect (states tiio Huntly correspondent of the Star) hot and'cold water, acetylene gas, and electric bell services being installed. The furnishing will run into about £IOOO. The marriage of one of Mahuta’s sons, and the opening of the new residence, will he the occasion of a big ceremony somewhere about the Now Year time.

Dr. Roseby, in thanking the large audience that filled the Congregational Church, Dunedin, on Friday evening, for the kindness that had been extended to him during his visit to Dunedin, referred in touching words to the death of his son (reports the ‘Star’). “He was,” said Dr. Roseby. “the best scholar of all my boys. Ho never travelled or went anywhere without his Greek Testament in his pocket, and none was ever more worthy of his parents’ love. Yet ho gave up any thought of a profession or special calling, and, largely as a result of his thinking and the influence of Tolstoi, he became a plain working man.” The audience listened in pained silence whilst the doctor said : “I shall not be in Dunedin again. This is ‘Farewell.’ ” Mr Martin Donohoo (whoso name figured prominently in yesterday’s issue as the war correspondent whose connected narrative of the battle of Lule Burgas was read with special interest) has had a most varied experience in notable military eyents. He was born in Galway 43 years .ago, and began his work as a journalist in Sy ney twenty years ago. After assisting in the notorious Do Rougemont exposure, ho went to South Africa and became the correspondent of the Lon ; don. Daily Chronicle in the Boer war. Mr Donohoe was with Lord Methuen from the Orange River to Magersfontein, and acted as asistant galloper to General Sir Hector McDonald in the fight at Koodoesberg Drift. He accompanied Lord Roberts on the march from Enslin, and was present at the battle of Paardeberg. Shortly after this he was captured, but was released on the fall of Pretoria. In the Russo-Japanese War, Mr Donohoe was attached to the first army, and was with General Kuroki through Korea and Manchuria. He was pre sent at the battle of the Yalu, Motion Pass, Towan, Liaoyang, and the Shaho. He was in Turkey through the revolution of 1909 and witnessed the taking of Constantinople by the Young Turks, being the first journalist to interview the new Sultan. When the Portuguese revolution took pl - c; In 1910, and King Manuel fled from his capital. Mr. Donohoe was on the spot to record it, and he distinguished himself by escaping from Lisbon with the first detailed account of the fighting.