PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 79, 26 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Gavin Hamilton, private secretary to the Governor-designate, is a son* of the late Sir Hubert Hamilton K.C.8., wlio from 1887 to 1892 was Governor of Tasmania.

The Rev. 13. Metson has decided to accept the unanimous call from the Wanganui Primitive Methodist Church and Tie will leave Stratford some time in March next.

Mr A. M. Brodbury, who is responsible for the painting of the scenery in “The Geisha,” accompanied by Mr H. Brookes, is in town to-day supervising the erection of the scenery to be used in the production at Stratford to-morrow evening.

The Rev. Father Treacy, in a letter received in Stratford yesterday, states that both Miss Harding and he have been greatly benefited by their holiday at Now Plymouth, and that they will return borne on Thursday. Sir Joseph Ward mats entertained by friends at the Bluff on Saturday night, as a farewell prior to his departure on a trip to England. Sir J. G. Ward, Lady Ward, Miss Eileen Ward and Master Pat Ward left the Bluff yesterday for Melbourne, where they will join the Moldavia. The party were enthusiastically farewelled and cheered by a large crowd on the wharf. , Sir Gilbert Willis, who has bebn appointed extra aide-de-camp to the Earl of Liverpool—the Governor-designate, is the second baronet, and is an ALA. of Magdalen College (Oxford), with a town house in Kensington Palace Gardens, and a country house at Dulverton. He is thirty-two, unmarried, a J.P. for Somerset, was a lieutenant of the Royal North Deyon Hussars, and was an' extra aide, a few years hack, to Lord Aberdeen.