PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 24 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Carbery returned to Stratford last night, after a two years’ tour of Great Britain and the Continent. Mr Cedric Crawshaw has been successful in the first section of his Law Professional.

Mr W. T. Wood, ex-M.H.R., wartendered a farewell by the citizens of Palmerston North last night, and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr Wood is leaving Palmerston to recuperate at a seaside resort. Sir Gilbert Willis, who was to have accompanied Lord Liverpool as extra aide-de-camp, had to change his plans at the eleventh hour, on account of the death of Lord Peel, as whose successor ho stood, and was elected, for Taunton, in the Unionist interest last month, gaining the scat with a majority of 50 votes above his predecessor.

King Ferdinand, who adopted a specially fitted railway car as his headquarters in the war, has taken a leaf out of Kuropatkin’s book. In the Manchurian war, with armies spread sometimes over a front of at least a hundred miles, the Russian genera! had a railway track laid down in the rear of his forces, and made his way from point to point in a car. There was probably no incident in that war which marked so clearly the change from the old to the new.

Mr Bramwell Booth, the new General of the Salvation Army, has promoted Colonel D. C. Lamb to the rank of Commissioner, and appointed him one of the Army’s international secretaries for supervision c-f work in Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, and New Zealand. He will continue to direct the emigration department, with which he has been associated for ten years.

The members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis—five sons and four daughters—met in Wanganui cm Friday to celebrate the golden wedding of their parents, who are wellknown and highly-respected residents of Waverley. The family gathering included Mr. and Mrs. W. Davis, sehr., Mr. W. J. Davis (Waverley), Mrs. J. W Hughes (Maxwell), Mr. Arthur Davis (Pukearuhe), Mrs. W. Dickie (Waverley), Mr. T. Davis (Marton), Mtv Walter Davis (Okau), Mr. Charles Davis (Wavefley), Miss Clara Davis (Waverley), and Miss Mabel Davis (Waverley). The old couple, who are still hale' and hearty, were the recipients of many congratulatory messages.