PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 4 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss Steven, of Oamaru, arrived in Stratford last night by the mail train on a visit to her brother, Dr. Steven. The death of Mrs Dun Can MacGregor, widow of the late Dr. MacGregor (Inspector of Hospitals), is recorded. Mrs E. S. Wright and Miss Kate Best, both of Devonport, Auckland, are at present visiting Stratford the guests of Mrs D. Munro Wilson. i Herr Kiderlin-Waechter was buried

at Stuttgart (states a cablegram from Beriin). The King of Wurtemburg and many notables were present. Herr •tJHoTlweg, the German Chancellor, represented the Kaiser. Mr Butterworth, who was seriously injured in the Normanhy crossing accident on New Year’s Day, and was, taken to the Hawera Hospital, is reported to be progressing favourably. Mr William Parkerson, an old resident of Woodville, died on Tuesday evening, aged 78 years. In the early days deceased was a squatter in the Gisborne district. The Right Rev. Mgr. Canon Luck, V.G., elder brother of the late Bishop Luck, of Auckland, died at St. Mary’s, East Hendred, Berks, announces the London Tablet. I Sir G. Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay,'who was recently raised to the Peerage, will be known as Lord Sydenham, states a cablegram from Bombay. The Hon. J. A. Millar, ex-Minister for Railways, is at present in Auckland. Acting on his doctor’s advice, Mr Millar intends to take no part in public affairs for twelve months other than business directly affecting hie constituency. Three Presbyterian ro : -'rters were on a visit to Stratford at the New Year, two of them, the Rev. B. Hutson and the Rev. J. M. Thomson, being former pastors of St. Andrew’s Church, Stratford. The latter, who is on holiday leave from his Foxton Charge, left‘for Wanganui this morning. The third minister was the Rev. D. Thomson, of Petoue. The Hon. C. E. Frazer, Commonwealth Postmaster-General, had a / conference in Wellington yesterday ’’with the Hon. R. H. Rhodes regarding wireless telegraphy and matters of common interest to Australia and New Zealand. Views were exchanged but nothing definite was decided upon. Mr Frazer left by the Main Trunk express for the north. He will ■ include Rotorua in his itinerary. Mr William Lindsay Christie died at Dunedin yesterday, aged 73 years. He was born at Montrose, Scotland, and came out to Otago in the ship Stanley in 1854 with his parents. He . was engaged in farming at the Taieri until 1874, when he began to work the coal mines owned by him and his brother, Mr David Christie, at Saddle Hill. The deceased was for 20, years a member of the East Taieri ! Volunteers, and was a prominent marksman in his day (gold medallist). Mr Leonard Stowe, C.M.G., who Was the recipient of latest New Year honours, succeeded Major Campbell as Clerk of Parliament in 1889. He was horn in Buckingham, and educated at Ifflel and Rugby School un- , der Dr Goal bum. Mr Stowe arrived in New Zealand by the ship Lady Alice, settling in Nelson. In 1864 he became clerk to the Marlborough Provincial Council. A year later ho was appointed to the Legislative Council, and then became Clerk of Parliament. Mr Archibald Hood, who for very many years was a well-known figure in Devon Street; New Plymouth, died yesterday. For some time past advancing years (he was 87 years of age) have Confined him to hia home in Dawson Street (says the Herald). Years ago he was a prolific maker of verse, and some twenty "years back he published a little volume relating to the inter-tribal fighting among the Maoris at Motorua. The Prince of Wales is said to be thoroughly enjoying the life of an ordinary undergraduate, and entering into so many different forms of sport. He rides regularly, generally in tlie company of Major Cadogan, and that of other graduates, in Nuneham Park, and no doubt it will not be long' before he is seen, like his father and hia grandfather, in the hunting field; but for the present he seems so fully occupied that he may postpone a close acquaintance wif-n hunting until a somewhat later date. Considering his light weight, he is quite a creori football player, and at the Association game has played five times 1 tor the (second eleven at Magdalen and three times for the first eleven. Prince Yamagata, 0.M., President of the Privy,Council of Japan, upon whom an unsuccessful attempt at assassination was recently made, is 74 years of age, and has had a long and distinguished career in the service of Japan, both in the civil and military spheres. At the age of 32 he became a junior Minister for War, and three years later was Minister for War. 'ln 1885 he became Minister for Home Affairs and in 1892 Minister for Justice. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in the civil war of 1877, and commanded the first armyin the China-Japan war. In 1889 he became* Prime Minister,, and next year attained the rank of general. In 1907 the title of prince was bestowed upon him. '

The Hon. W. T). Johnson, West Australia’s,Minister of Public Works, who is spending a month in the Dominion making official inquiries, was born at Wanganui and received his education at the State school at Turakina. After serving his apprenticeship to the carpentry trade at Marton he took his departure for the , Kalgoorlie goldfields in 1894. For many years he was associated with the Labour movement in the Eastern goldfields of Western Australia. In 1901 he was returned to Parliament as the first member for the Kalgoorlie electorate, and he has had practically a continuous career in the Legislative Assembly. * During the Labour administrations he has held the portfolios of Minister of Mines, llailwaye and Public Works. Sir Walter Clarke Buchanan, M.P. (New Zealand’s new Knight), who is at present on hus way to England, on a holiday visit, is a native of Argyllshire, where he was born 74 yearr ago. He was educated at the Parish Greenock, and emigrated to Melbourne in 1857, where he had six years of station life. He came to Canterbury in 1863, and settled on a leasehold farm. In 1871 Mr Buchanan purchased the Tupurupuru station, Wairarapa. His public life is well known. He was first elected to Parliament for Wairarapa in 1881, and has served on various public bodies, including the Wellington Education Board. A few years ago he built, at a cost of £6OOO, a hospital for incurables at Greytown, and he has built out of his own private funds a church at Gladstone, Some time ago he offered £SOOO to the Government of the day with the view to the starting of an experimental farm in the Wairarapa district, but for some other his offer was refused.