PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 13 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Hib Excellency the Governor opened the annhal exhibition of the Art Society in Dunedin yesterday afternoon. ' In the evening ho inspected the Boy Scouts and opened the Y.M.O.A. new building. To-day he will bo present at the demonstration by the returned New Zealand Cadets, and in the evening will open the local branch of the Overseas Club,

Miss M. C. Mackay, who is leaving Tariki School for Midhirst, has been presented with a handsome silver manicure set by the pupils.

Mr. H.:O-,oLowther, British Ambassador at Siwiago, has been appointed Ambaasado"o Copenhagen.

Mr. P. C. Freoth, the well-known Wellington journalist, will shortly take over the'management of the ‘Taihape Daily Times.’ Miss Fraser, late principal of the Wanganui Girls’ College, who has been appointed principal of Havelock North Presbyterian Ladies’ College, was introduced, to, and welcomed by, the General Assembly to-day. The Hon. W. Fraser (Minister of Public Works) will act as Minister of Finance during the absence of the Hon James Allen from the Dominion. The Hon. H. D. Bell, K.C., will take the portfolio of Education, and the H n. R. H. Rhodes will temporarily have charge of Defence matters. Mr. P. Brennan, of the Public Works Department, New Plymouth, who has been transferred to the Proclamation Department in Wellington, was yesterday presented by his colleagues with a set of silver-mounted pipes and a tobacco pouch. The presentation was made by Mr. Murray, the Resident Engineer, who referred in eulogistic terms to Mr. Brennan’s serviced in the local office. Later in the day (states the ‘News’) a number pf Mr. Brennan’s personal friends met and presented film with a substantial travelling case, as a token of their es- j teem.

Mr. J. S, Doughty, brother-in-law of Mr. Sidney’.Ward, and a well-known Stratford boy, was in town to-day. It is now some tent or twelve years since Mr. Doughty shook the dust of Stratford off his feet, and in that time he has done well, in the service of the International Correspondence Schools. Mr. Doughty returns to Australia on January to take up the important position of Divisional Superintendent in- Sydney. Incidentally, Mr. Doughty takes a keen interest in aeronautics, and the little working model of a Bloriot machine exhibited in the Egraont Clothing Company’s sliop window, is the product of a few" spare hours’ work. In Australia he won a gold medal for a flight by a Bleriot model, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wood, two of Palmerston’s most valued citizens, intend removing to Plimmerton at the beginning of the month. Mr. Wood was formerly Mayor of Palmerston from 1895 to 1891), and from 1901 to 1903,; and a Borough Councillor as early as 1880, and for many years subsequently. He is at the present time a member of t(ie Fpxton Harbour Board. His term cjf residence extends to thir-ty-four years, and during a great part of that period he.has been identified with all the public life of the town. In Mrs. Wood hq.fmd a worthy helpmeet, who also jwas possessed ,°f the public spirit.' .

The Rev. JjiO. Feetham, principal of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, Bathurst, has been unanimously chosen as Bishop of North Queensland; and has, accepted. Mr. Feetham, who is an Englishman, has been in holy orders for about twelve years. For. eral years 1 HA wo'rked in the East End' of London, but about five years ago, at the invitation of the Bishop of London,, he came out to the Bush Brotherhood. He had intended (says a Sydney contemporiM) 1 ,to return to England for a while, fljnd then 1 come back to Australia, but! his acceptance of the new appointment will, doubtless, cause an alteration ih'his plans. Mr. Feetham is a young man of exceptional ability, and took a high xliathematipal degree at Cambridge. •, ■: