PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 35, 10 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Millionaire Rockfeller is out of immediate danger, states a New York cablegram.

Mr and Mrs F. W. Wilkie and child left by the mail train this morning for a holiday in the Hawke’s Bay province.

M. Inoucje Katasvmosake, ex-Am-bassador at Berlin, has been appointed Ambassador at London, says a Tokio cablegram.

Mr and Mrs E. Jackson returned to on Saturday evening. Mrs Jackson has made a splendid recovery from her recent serious illness, and is now almost completely convalescent.

The consecration of the Rev. J. 0. Feetham, Bishop-elect of North Queensland, is arranged to take place in Brisbane Cathedral on St. Mark’s Day (April 25). He will be enthioned in St. James’s Cathedral, Townsville, on May 4th.

The Prime Minister has informed Mr H. Okey, M.P., that ho proposes to spend a week in Taranaki, probably during April, and that if engagements will permit the Hon. W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works, will accompany him.

Mr E. P. Mountford, of the Bank of New South Wales, Oamaru, and formexdy a member of the local staff of the “Wales,” succeeds Mr W. P. Hodgkins, manager of the Masterton branch, who has been transferred to Tamworth, New South Wales.

The Mayor (Mr W. P. Kirkwood) has received a wire from the Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, that he will pass through Stratford to-night en route for New Plymouth, and will return on Tuesday, when he wall pay an inspection visit to Pohokura. Mr Herries informed his Worship that he would be pleased to receive deputations on railway matters from the Borough Council and from the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr “Bob” Woods, who recently transferred the scene of his laboxirs from Mr Newton King’s Stratford branch to the new business established by Messrs Webster, Dobson and Co., was the recipient of a presentation from the staff of the office with which he has been associated for past four years. The presentation,; which was made by the manager, Mr. H. E. Abraham, on Saturday night, j took the form of a handsome suit case and set of hair brushes.

Mr W, Millar, of Gisborne, and at present in Sydney, in a letter to a, friend in Gisborne, announcing his appointment as general manager of the Greater J. D. Williams’ Company, l capital £200,000, says: “The rftanagementvhas been in a state of chaos, and I have been asked to straighten matters out. The position carries with it a seat on the board of the General Film Company, with a combined capital of half a million, is the most coveted position in the picture world of Australia.”

Mr Harry Lauder, the stories of whose carefulness in money matters are being repeated in American newspapers, presented hi i wife at a Christmas dinner given by Mr Win. Morris with an absolute promise to retire from the stage as soon as he had saved £120,000. The comedian estimates (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Mail) that he will have this sum safely in the bank at the \:lose of his farewell tour of the world, which will start in New York in 1914.

Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn, aged 24, is said to be a woman perfect in physique and health. She was discovered at Cornell University among the 400 girl students there (says the Daily Mail). According to Dr. Esther Parker, the medical examiner, her proportions are the nearest approach to those of the Venus de Milo among the students. Miss Scheel, who is described as an athlete, is a cold-water and out-of-doors enthusiast, and discards sweetmeats, cakes, tea, and coffee. She does not take breakfast, and subsists on two meals a day. Her favourite dish is beefsteak. She weighs 12st 31b, is sft. Tin in height, and is 34-in, in chest, 30in. waist, and is 40in. round fragette, is studying agriculture.