PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 20 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr T. Trask who met with a serious accident to his knee a few noeks ago, is making good progress towards recovery.

.Miss C. Stanford returned to New Plymouth this morning after an extensive tour of England and the Continent.

Mr A. M. Robertson, late of Auckland, takes over tne Midhirst Hotel to-morrow from trie present licensee, Mr James O’Connell.

Sacco, the famous fasting man, has just taken a wife unto himself. Hie nuptials were celebrated at the end of a 42 days’ fast, the bride being a girl of 17.

Mr R. Hoskin, of the Stratford Railway Station staff, is to lie married on Wednesday next at New Plymouth, to Miss Dennis, of Sydney.

Mr Frederick Butterworth has sufficiently recovered from the injuries received in the Normanby motor car accident’**to be able to leave the Hawera Hospital.

Mr J. B. Hine, M.P., left this morning by the mail train en route for Dunedin, where he will join the party of North Island members to tour Central Otago. Mr H. J. Okey, M.P., is also making the trip.

Mr C. A. Court Opie, of Carterton, has been appointed overseer to the Egmont County Council out of sixtytwo applicants for the position from all over the colony. Failing his acceptance the position will be offered to Geo. H. Herbert, of Hourata, Christchurch.

Miss 0. M. Stanford, of New Plymouth, leaves for Singapore on Saturday next, where her marriage to Mi Hugh Wilson, son of Mr Henry Wilson, Palmerston North, will take place. Mr Wilson is on the Singapore staff of the Eastern Extension Electric Telegraph Company.

,An old and respected settler of Ngaere in the person of Mr John Callaghan, of Finnerty Bead, passed away yesterday after a long and.painful illness. The interment- will take place to-morrow, leaving his late residence at 12 noon for the Catholic Church, Stratford, and afterwards for the town cemetery at 2 p.m.

Mr 0. E. Stout, son of the Chief Justice, is now on his way to the Dominion. He has been in England for four years, and has taken honours in law at Cambridge, graduating at B.A. and LL.B. He has taken alsc the Bar examinations in London, is r member of Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the Bar on November 21.

Lieutenant Ivon Standish, of New Plymouth, who left New Zealand some time ago to take a course of training with the Imperial Army at Home, retained to New Plymouth this morning. Lieutenant Standish will shortly proceed to Palmerston North, where lie will rejoin for duty with the New Zealand Defence Force at Palmerston.

Mrs John Guy, sen,, an old ard respected resident of-the Hunter River district (N.S.W.), died m her 63rd year. Deceased was'a native of Polwarra, and was corn on the t; p of a haystack in the big flood of 1850. For about 40 years she lived at Kayuga, near Muswellbrook, where she reared a family of six sons and four daughters.

Mr T. Noye, Inspector of Permanent Ways, has now taken up his quarters in Stratford. The office appliances and stores w'ere removed from Hawera last week, and were installed in the new building on the local station premises 6i\ Saturday, Mr Noye’s clerk, Mi T. Traek, who is to be stationed here, is at present in the Hawera Hospital, suffering from an injured knee.

Mr John Archer, Senior, who some years ago met with an accident at Westport, and has since been in indifferent health, .died at his residence, Midhirst, last night. ‘ Deceased, wdio was about sixty years of age, leaves a widow and family of three (Mr F. Archer, now in England. John Archer, Midhirst, and Mrs E. W. Hancock, Stratford), with whom sympathy is felt in their bereavement.

The funeral of the Hon. John Br yce took place yesterday afternoon at Brunswick (Wanganui). There was a very long cortege, Territorials forming part as far as St. John’s Hill. Members of the deceased’s old Kai Iwi Cavalry Corps were pall-bearers, and the Hons. Rhodes and Fisher arid Mr John Duthie (one of the old school) were among those present. The ceremony at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Calder, and the last post was sounded.—Press Association.

The Rev. Father McManus, of Inglewood, has been appointed successor to the late Father Costello in the administration of St”. Patrick’s parish (states the Manawatu Times). Father McManus has been in the dominion about eight years. He was.educated and ordained at St. Patrick’s College, Tories, County Tipperary, Ireland, subsequently coming to New Zealand. Father McManus, who is a nephew of the late Father McManus, a well known priest formerly ministering in the dominion, was for some time in New Plymouth.

The West Australian Premier (Mr J. Scaddan) who was to leave for London last week, was farewelled by the Labour Party at luncheon at Parliament House. Mr Scaddan said the Agent-General had told him that it was desirable that he should meet people in the financial world at Home face to face, and tell them what the Government’s progressive programme meant. He felt quite assured of the loyalty of the party and of his cob leagues. He would retuim on April 29th. He was now 36 years of age, and had never been out of Australia, and did not know all that was to be known. The secret of his standing Ministerial worries was that he dropped them at the office on Saturday morning, and did not take them up again till Monday. Also lie had bought a pianola, and refreshed himself playing it a quarter of an hour before dinner.