PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 94, 16 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Air J. W. Poynton will commence his magisterial duties on January Ist. Air A. L. Beattie, Chief Mechanical Engineer to the Railway Department, has decided to retire on superannuation at the end of March next.—P.A. wire.

Sir Thomas Dewar, the well known baronet of whisky fame, has gone to Africa to shoot big game. He has taken an operator and 10,000 feet of biograph film with him. Lieut.-Col. Beauchamp, C.M.G., was married at Waikanae on Thursday to Miss Mary Jane Elder, formerly of Langdalo, Masterton. The ceremony was performed by the Yen. Archdeacon Gossett (uncle of the bride), of Christchurch.

Master Mortimer Reddington, of the Marist Brothers’ School, Chnstciuirch, this year won the two years’ scholarship to Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, of an annual value of 35 guineas, and open to pupils from the Catholic primary schools of he Dominion. The Hon. W. F. Massey leaves Wellington this evening or to-morrow for Auckland to meet the Gove; mr designate, Lord Liverpool, on Wednesday. The Prime Minister wid return uith the vice-regal party to Wellington. Miss Martha Steven. BA., B.Sc.',{ assistant mistress at Ashburton High I School, and formerly at the Caitakij Girls’ School, has been appointed assistant teacher at Wanganui Teclini-j cal College.

Air and Airs G. Pearce, of Waitara, who leave in February on a trip to England and America, were the recipients of a presentation at a social in the Atethodist Church on Wednesday. Reference was made to Mr Pearce’s good work in the church and Sunday School during the last 37 years. The gifts consisted of a combined dressing case and travelling hag to Air Pearce and a rug to Airs Pearce. Air Wynand Boers, a well known figure in Havelock, was recently married to Mrs Sally Taylor, and according to the Pelorous Guardian the ceremony was rather of a romantic nature. The united ages of the couple total 146 years. Air Boers up till ten years ago was a valued servant in the Post ami Telegraph Department, and was for many years postmaster at Havelock. He joined the service in 1869 and retired in 1892 on a pension. He is now 77 and his bride, of .39 summers, is an old resident of Nelson and a ore recently of Collingwood.

Mr S. Clarke Johnson, inspector of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. and Reduced, and his assistant, Mr Holmes, arrived in Stratford by last Thursday evening’s express to inspect generally the Stratford branch, the work being finally finished late on Saturday night. Mr W. A. Hewitt, local manager, motored the visitors to the Kaponga Mountain House yesterday afternoon. The Lawson’s Falls was greatly admired, as the day was fine and everything looked to advantage. Mr F. W. Carey, the Loan Company’s Hawera manager, motored up from Hawera, and returned with the party, via Yon Tempskey’s Monument, to Hawera, where Mr Johnson will be engaged for r, few days inspecting the work of the branch there. Obituary: Whitelaw Reid, United States Ambassador in England.—(London cablegram). The Hon. Whitelaw Reid was born at Xenia, Ohio, on October 27th, 1837, his parents being pioneers from Kentucky and Vermont in the settlement of Ohio, and of Scotch Covenanter origin. After a distinguished University career, he edited a country weekly newspaper for two years. "He fought in the Civil War, holding rank of Captain, and, a? army correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette was at Pittsburg, Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, and other famous engagements. From 1863 to 1872 he was successively clerk military committee in the House of Representatives, librarian in the same institution, cotton planter in Louisiana, a member of the editorial staff New York Tribune, editor-in-chief of that journal, and then chief proprietor. In the succeeding years his ambassadorships were numerous, culminating in the appointment as IT.S. Ambassador in England.