PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward have ar rived in London “all well.;’’

The Hon. W. C. Carncross was a passenger for Eltham by the mail train inis morning.

Mr Richard Dingle returned to Stratford this morning from Auckland.

Rev. J. Chisholm, of Mangaweka, has accepted a call from the congregation of the. Wainiwa Presbyterian Church, Southland. The late Hon. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador to England, left all his estate unconditionally to his widow. Its value at the lowest is two millions sterling. Mr R. Larsen, who has been master of the school at Mako Mako for the past three years, and who is leaving to take up an appointment under the Tqranaki Board, was given a send-ofl by the settlers of the district on Wednesday evening.

Miss Alice Henry, the well-known missionary who visited New Zealand several years ago, has broken down in health, and has been ordered tc leave her station at Yang-chow, on the Grand Canal, and return to hei home in Melbourne to recuperate. Mr Will Webster conducted his first sale under the auspices of the nev firm, Messrs Webster, Dobson, and Co., yesterday, at Strathmore, and farmers and buyers were loud in the congratulations on the excellent start made, the prices realised being good

Mr Robert Masters left last night for Patea by motor, and travels tc Hunterville to-day, returning with hie brother, “Dick” Masters, who has recently had trouble with a poisoned knee. Dr. O. Evans has performed two operations, and the latter, it if-, hoped, will be successful. King Alphonso, according to ar. American picture journal, has gone cinematograph mad. Formerly he kept at his various places four photographers, whoso business it was tc snap His Majesty at all times, and in all postures. He has now installed a moving picture operator at the palace in Madrid, and seldom lets a day slip without looking in at the royal bioscope theatre, a converted bil hard room. Here are thrown on the screen daily the very latest picture? of the monarch.

The death of Mr M. J. O’Donnell, of Hawera, occurred suddenly or Saturday night, while ho was asleep (says the Star). Mr O’Donnell war born in India during the Indian Mu tiny, and he came to the Dominion thirty years ago, when he joined tin I Armed Constabulary. Later, he be came a member of the police force am was officer in charge at Blenheim anc Picton, and also held the position o Clerk of the Court. Nineteen years ago he resigned from the force, anc started a drapery business in Hawera which he has ever sine© conducted The late Mr O’Donnell had been i Justice of the Peace for fifteen years and was always ready to give a help ing hand in the Court work. Deceas ed leaves a widow and grown-up fam ily, of whom one eon is in Englanc as an ecclesiastical student. Mr W. F. Corbett, the well-known sporting journalist, has been securec for the staff of the Sydney Sun. Mi Corbett has had a long and honour able association with- the “Deforce,’ “Sunday Times,” and “Arrow” in Sydney; and particularly with tin first-named of these three papers. Ii fact (states the Sun), the high position which the Sydney “Referee holds among the sporting journals c the world is due in very great mea sure to the reputation which Mr Corbett has established as the soundest of judges of varied forms of athletic: and sport, and as one of the most at tractive of sporting writers. 1* or 17 years Mr Corbett has be?n a ful member of the “Referee” staff, anc for many years before (while he waf still in the postal service) he was oik of the leading contributors to thai paper.

Lady Dudley’s health, which for a long time caused her relatives anxiety, is now greatly improved. A Sydney girl who saw her recently in Ireland savs she looks more robust than sh< did when in Australia. Though borr in the purple, Lady Dudley has hao her share of adversity (says the Daily Telegraph). When her fathei (Mr Charles Gurney), the well known banker, met with financial disaster and made over ail bis property to bis creditors, she and her two sistei s, who were left penniless, started a millinery establishment in London, which, however, was not a success. It was then Adeline, Duchess of Bed ford, whose charming personality if well remembered in Sydney, came to the rescue, and took care of the girls till they were married.