PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. William Findlay, of Wellingt n, Avhose death in Scotland has just oeen chronicled, bequeathed £SOO to tho Wellington Hospital. Miss Clara Butt and her husband and Mr. John McCormack, will visit Australia next year, and Mr Harry Lauder will folfinv in 1914. These artists will be under the direction of Messrs G. and T. Tait.

_ Mr C. E. Robinson, of the Money Order and Savings Bank Department of the New Plymouth Post Office, has received notice of his transfer to Gisborne.

Major-General Sir Harry Barron, Governor of Tasmania, has been appointed Governor of West Australia in succession to Sir Gerald Strickland. Mr G. Milne has been appointed the Commonwealth Trade Commissioner. He is at present inquiring into British trade in’ Central America. He proceeds to Australia next year. Messrs F. Earl and J. R- Reed (of Auckland), J. W. Salmond (Solici-tor-General), A. Gray and C. B. Morrison (of Wellington) have been appointed King’s Counsels. Mr. L. E. Jackson, Avho has been resident representative of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile for the Opunake district, is severing his connection Avith that institution and will be retiring on the 31st December (states the ‘Opunake Times’). The aide-de-camps to the new Governor of Noav Zealand, His Excellency Lord Liverpool, are (according to the ‘Army and Navy Gazette’),. Captain Charles Showe, and Lieutenant Thomas Ralph Eastwood, of the Rifle Brigade, aide-de-camp and extra aide-de-camp respectively. Captain Slioavc is at present acting as A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding in Ireland.

Miss Clave St. Clair Soaraes, who married Lieutenant-General Sir -Hubert Baden-Powell, K.C.8., is the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Soames, of Lilliput, Dorset. Prior to her marriage Miss Soames received numerous congratulatory messages at her home, Gray Bigg, i' l Dilliput. She is a vivacious brunette, of twenty-three, tall and slim, and has won the admiration of a wide circle of friends by accomplishments in a variety of outdoor sports. The hero of Mafeking and Chief Scout is fifty-four, showing still the vitality of a much younger man. Miss Soames last year visited the Indies, and General Baden-Powell happened to be there at the same time. “We were.in Amer.ca,” he remarked recently to the ‘Pall Mall .Gazette,’ “on Washington’s birthday, February. 22, which is curiously enough the date of my fiancee’s birthday and that of my own,.” Mrs. J. S. McLennan, who,_ at the time of her death on'Snnday, 27th nit., at the grand old age of 89, was the oldest living person in Waipn (states the ‘Whangarei Mail’), was born at Middle River, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in 1823. The deceased lady was married to Mr. John McLennan, a farmer of that district, in 1848, by the late Rev. Norman McLeod, founder of the Waipu Special Settlement. On June 25. 1806, with her husband and three children, she emigrated to New Zealand in the brig “Gertrude,” the first vessel coming direct to New Zealand from Cape Breton with the Waipu pioneers. In January, 1857, the late Mrs. McLennan landed at Waipu, where she has resided for nearly 56 years. Of a family of seven, two survive her, Miss Christina and Mr. Angus McLennan. There are also living six grand-children and eight greatgrandchildren, also two brothers (Messrs. Kenneth Campbell, of Morrinsville, and P. Campbell), and one sis,toy., Mrs. .Flora McLennan.