PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 6 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr and .Mrs H. LI. Betts arrived ii i Stratford on Saturday evening, on I a holiday visit, and are staying will i Mr J. B. Campbell. ' Mr “Fred” Wilkie, of the Public Works Department, is at present ii Stratford, and is staying with lus brother, Mr F. H. Wilkie. Mr W. A. Hewitt, manager of tin Stratford branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, arrived back in Stratford on Saturday evening. Mrs A. Mackie, of Stratford, who was recently th«p subject of an operation for appendicitis in a private hospital in New Plymouth, is making a satisfactory recovery. The many friends of Mr W. H. Paynter will be glad to learn that he is recovering from an attack of pneumonia, and hopes to lie able to leave the hospital in a few days. Mr Galvin, a well-known journalist, the founder of the Hawera Star, and until recently editor of the Mining Record, is at present in Stratford, being the guest of Mr A. W. Reid. Mr C. E. Frazer (Postmaster-Gen-eral of the Commonwealth), attained his thirty-third birthday on the day of his arrival in New Zealand. The Commonwealth Postmaster-General is one of the increasing hand of Cabinet Ministers who have risen from the ranks. Not so many years ago he was a locomotive fireman. The mortal remains of Mr Whitelaw Reid were buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, states a cablegram from New York. President Taft, Mr Bryce, members of theßritish Embassy and many prominent men attended. Bishop Greer officiated at the service in the church and was assisted by Bishop Leonard. Mr Roosevelt was amongst those who marched in the procession. The death occurred yesterday at her residence in Juliet Street south, of Mrs Elizabeth Coley, wife of Mi Charles Coley,a Taranaki war veteran, and a well-respected resident of Stratford for the Inst twenty-five or more years. The deceased lady, who had been ailing for many years, attained the ripe old age of 70 years. She is survived by her husband and one son. “The death of Viscount Peel removes a man who played a very honourable part in our public life. No more majestic man ever sat in the Speaker’s chair,” says the Daily Chronicle “Tall and stately, austere of con’- ance, he was the incarnation nity. Mr Labouchere, whose ]r ,| S irrepressible, used to say ti ,ic never looked at Speaker Peel without thinking of Pharaoh. No greater Speaker has , ever presided over the House of Commons. He dominated the House by the sheer majesty of his character.” Sir Edward Carson, the anti-Horne Rule leader, is about to take up bis position as “Autumn Reader” at the M iddle Temple, an honour conferred upon him for eminence in the legal profession. The appointment (ro-r marks a London correspondent), though it brings no duties or emoluments nowadays, is generally regarded as the stepping-stone to thq “Treasursliip of the Inn,” and is a coveted position. Its only ceremonial, at least as far as the Middle Temple is concerned, is the “Reader’s Faust” every other term, when an extra supply of food and a double quantity of wine are allowed to each, the health of the King is honoured, and the loving-cup is passed round the hall. An intimate friend of the late Senor Canalejas (Premier of Spain), who was assassinated at Madrid on November 11, relates the following incident:—“l was present on November 8 at a luncheon with Senor Canalejas and a number of his friends of various political parties occupying the highest positions. We had been accustomed to meet so once a week for several years. On the occasion in question, Senor Canalejas, referring to attempts on the lives of statesmen, said to the Marquis de Portage; ‘J know that I am condemned to death, because I possess the positive information to the effect that two anarchists *have taken an oath to kill me. 1 know further that the anarchist who is to take my life is a man who has been banished from Buenos Ayres, and that he went thence to Paris, and from Paris to Valencia and then to Biarritz, where the police lost trace of him.” The birth of a daughter to Mrs Daniel Warner Marvin under circumstances almost exactly similar to those of the birth of a son to Mrs John Jacob Astor, is reported by the New York Herald of November 23. Like Colonel and Mrs Mr Mir Marvin were passengers in the Titanic. Mr Marvin went down with the ship, and Mrs Marvin was saved. The marriage of Mr and Mrs Marvin had several romantic features. The wedding ceremony took place ju March last at the home of the bride’s parents. and immediately afterwards the wedding party drove to the studios of the Edison Biograph «.--mpany, with which the bride!s father was connected, and went through the ceremony again before the cinematograph. It was only after they had started on their honeymoon trip to Europe tba+ the couple’s friends learned that there bad been an earlier ceremony still. Mr and Mrs Marvin were secretly married on January 8 by an alderman at the City Hall. At the time of the wedding the bride was only seventeen years old and the bridegroom eighteen.