PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 2 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death, from heart failure, of Herr von Kilderlen-Waechter, Minister for Foreign Affairs is reported from Berlin. Herr Waechter had been ill for several days, and died during his annual visit to his sister at Strutgart.

Alderman Samuel, the Mayor of Norwich, was married on Decernbei 21. He and his bride refused to accept any wedding presents, on the ground that the custom was becoming an outrageous imposition on friendship. Mr Bruce. Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company on June 30. Mr Harold Sanderson, formerly manager of the White Star Line, and Chairman of the Shaw Saville and Aibion Company, will succeed him, states a London cablegram.

Miss Stead, a daughter of the latt W. T. Stead, asserts that she has received a message from her deac father stating that he is working hare for the promotion of peace in tiu Near East. Untrammelled by In; physical body, he is able to moyt here, there, and everywhere. Jhc message concludes, “Don’t imagim that the Turk has left Europe yet. The death occurred yesterday morfl W of Mr Austen H. Bisley, membei of the firm of Bisley Bros., auctioneers, Nelson. Ho was well known 11 the district as an energetic business man, and was a member of the Nelsoi City Council, a former president c the Nelson Chamber of Commerce am member of many local bodies.—Pres: Association. ■ Dr. George Wilson, one of the bes known medical men in Palmers-tor. North, died yesterday. He wa: operated on for appendicitis on Sunday but gradually sank and die<J las evening. After practising in Edm burgh and Glasgow he came to Zealand in-1892, establishing himsel at Palmerston, where he was knowi as a highly successful surgeon am physician. He was a well-know, member of the Manawatu llaemj Club. Captain Frank Brinkley whos< death is reported from Tokio wa. “perhaps the best known Englishmai in Japan,” says the Daily Mail. H was foreign adviser to the Japa Mail Steamship Co., Tokio correspon dent of The Times, editor of the Jap an Mail, and acted • several times a, official adviser to the Japanese Gov eminent. Captain Brinkley went t Japan in command of the artiller when Britain kept a battery at Yoke hama, married a lady of a distinguish ed Japanese family, and remained r, the country after the British Hoop were withdrawn. He mastered th language as few foreigners have eye done, and was also described as th first living authority on Chinese am Japanese porcelain and faiece. Dr. Thekla Hultin, M’.P. for tin Finnish constituency of Viborg, ha given a Standard representative ai interesting account of woman s wor! in Finland- Dr. Hultin is one of th fourteen women members in the r in nish Parliament, who “seem to b. thoroughly appreciated, for we ar< on the best of terms with the men We serve’ on all the committees-, am on the Committee of Finance There is nothing strange -in this, to if you go into the banks of Finlanc you will find ladies acting as cashiers We women take a great part in thcommercial as well as the social am political life of our little nation. Las session the ladies proposed a measnrwhich should reduce certain of th more rigorous penalties that fall upo the perpetrators of child murder. I too, had the honour of bringing for ward a Bill which makes the lega position of lady advocates in Fmlam absolutely safe. We have one lad: advocate already in the law court; of Helsingfors.”

The New Year honours include peer ages for Sir G. Sydenham Clarke am Sir George Kemp, a Baronetcy fo Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott, the Older of the Companion of St. Michae. and St. George to Mr Leonard Stowe clerk of New Zealand am a Knight Bachelorhood for Mr W. C Buchanan, of New Zealand. Hu Order of St. Michael and St. Georg has also been bestowed upon Sir J P. Whitney (Premier of Ontario), ant Sir E. P. Morris (Premier of New foundland). The Baronetcies includ Mr Thomas Jackson, a prominen British architect, Mr J. K. Caird the Knighthoods, Mr A. L. Libert; (Chairman of the Liberty Company) Mr Francis Darwin (third son of tin late Mr Charles Darwin), Doctor Rob ert Phillip (the Edinburgh leader o' the crusade against consumption) Knight of the Bath, Sir John Anderson (Permanent Under-Secretary tc the Colonial Office).