PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. George Fowkls, it is stat- | ed, intends shortly to make a trip to I the Old Country. .Mr 11. Cottier, of the firm of Court and Cottier, Whangamomona, is to be tendered a farewell on Thursday night, his departure following the dissolution of partnership.

Mr J. Graham Gow, Commercial Agent in Canada, has been recalled by the Government, says the Dunedin Star, and will return to the Dominion at an early date.

Airs Harrison Lee CowiO, of Invercargill, has been engaged as a lecturer by the New South Wales Alliance for the local option campaign of 1913, and will commence her duties on the Ist of May.

Mrs Alexander, the wife of Air Charles M. Alexander, the well-known evangelist, who underwent a serious operation some weeks ago in Melbourne, has made rapid progress towards recovery, and has left the city with Air Alexander on a holiday.

The Rev. Dr. Alorley, one of the recognised constitutional authorities of the Alethodist Church in Australasia, has arrived in Wellington from Sydney to take part in ttie Methodist conference to be held on February sth. He will visit Wanganui and Auckland before the conference, sits.

Sir Hugh Graham, the well-known Canadian newspaper proprietor, will probably succeed Lord Strathcona as High Commissioner for Canada. Canadian interests will shortly be centralised in a building that is being erected at the Westminster end of the Strand, at a cost of £400,000.

Archbishop Clark, of Alelbourne, departs shortly for England, where he will ascertain views upon the Anglican Church in Australia (states a cablegram to-day). His Lordship will probably return in time to discuss the results with the Bishops at the 'Church Congress in Brisbane next spring.

Colonel Archibald Gracie ,an American army officer, who was the last survivor to' leave the Titanic, died in a private hospital in New York. Colonel Gracie jumped when the water reached the boat deck of the Titanic, and clung for some hours to an upturned boat before he was rescued. He never recovered from the effects of the shock and exposure.

Mr Archibald, who has predicted 0 drought of several years’ duration for Australia, is an authority on the weather, achieving fame by reason of a series of articles in the Westminster Gazette, in which he predicted the great Indian drought of 1896 to 1900, when hundreds of thousands of people" died and over 6,000,000 were placed on relief works.

Miss E. Brayshaw, who has been in Mr A. Coleman’s office for the past six years, has received advice from the University authorities that she has been successful in passing the second section, comprising the legal subjects, of the examination for the Associateship of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. As the standard of the examination is exceedingly high, Miss Brayshaw’s performance is exceptionally meritorious.

The wife of the new President of the United States, also many other people, will learn with surprise that the White House only contains seven bedrooms. Republican simplicity can go no farther. Mr Woodrow Wilson’e brother-President, M. Fallieres, is much more sumptuously lodged at the Elysee, which has over a hundred rooms. But, then, the Elysee was built before Presidents were invented, which may account for the difference.

Prince Louis of Battenberg, the new First Sea Lord, is an admirable representative of the modern type of scientific sailor, and brings to his responsible duties a large amount of practical experience. He joined the Navy in 1868, at the age of 14, has been Second Sea Lord sihec 1911, and was promoted to the rank of Admiral this year. Prince Louis saw active service in the Egyptian War in 1882, and commanded the Blue Fleet in the Naval Manoeuvres of last July. He ie the inventor of the “course indicator,” a tactical instrument, as well as an appliance for calculating the speed of ships.

An event of more than ordinary interest took place at the residence of Mr M .Hunt, at Rongotea, on Friday last, when Mr and Mrs Neil Buchanan celebrated the diamond jubilee of their wedding life. The aged couple, who are looking remarkably well, were happy in the midst of their children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, who had assembled from far and near to do honour to them on the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding day (says the “Manawatu Standard”). Mr Buchanan was born at Loch Awe, Argyllshire, Scotland, in the year 1830, and he spent the early years of his life there. He joined the Gordon Highlanders at the age of sixteen, and served with them for some years, being in Ireland during the Smith-O’Brion troubles. Shortly after he went to America, but returned to Scotland, where he resided for several years. Then ho emigrated to New South Wales, and, on the breaking out of the Maori war in New Zealand, Mr Buchanan volunteered, and crossed the water to the scene of action. He received a grant of land at Hamilton East for military services, and settled thereon .with his family. Subsequently he proceeded to the Wellington province, where he took up his present holding in the Rongotea district.