PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 24 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death of the Dowager-Empress of China is supposed to have been due to appendicitis. The rumors cl suicide have been disproved.—Cable.

Mr W. C. Weston, of the Taranaki Herald, left for Auckland by the Tarawa on Saturday night to attend the

Press conference to held there,

Mr T. G. Grubb left Stratford this morning on a fortnight’s holiday in Wellington and the South Island.

Mr G. V. Tate, of Waitara, will be asked to act with the officers of the Agricultural Department in judging the Stratford A. and P. Association’s Dairy Farm Competition.

Mr W. H. P. Hodgkins, who has been manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Masterton for the last year or two, has received notice of his transfer to Tarn worth, New South Wales.

Messrs Walker, W. Harkness, 11. D. Harkness, and G. Hollard have been added to the general committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association.

Mr Malcolm Boss, the New Zealand officer of the Imperial Trade Commission, meets members of the Commission on their arrival at the Bluff today.

Master Tom Partridge, an old Stratford School boy, received word on Saturday that he has been successful .n passing the first section of his B.A. degree.

Mr George Bond, who left Stratford recently to join the staff of the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., writing to a northern friend, states that Mrs Bond has had to undergo a serious operation in Wellington, but is nowconvalescent.

Mr W. A. Curzon-Siggers (Dunedin), has received word that he has obtained the degree of Master of Arts, with first class honors in classics (Latin and Greek). This is the first time it has been obtained at the Otago University. .

The results of the examination for the Civil Service Senior are just pablished. Three candidates sat from the Stratford District High School. Of these Miss Irene Wylie successfully passed the examination, and Miss C. Lau and Master Auld (Midhirst) gained a partial success.

Rear-Admiral Tochinai, commanding the Japanese training ships at present on a visit to Australia, is described as an interesting personality. He has all the breeziness of the British sailor, and the prominent part he played in the Russo-Japanese war was sufficient evidence of his naval ability. The admiral practically commenced his career with a voyage to Sydney in the Japanese training ship Kongo. That was in 1887. He afterwards spent several years in London as naval attache to the Japanese embassy. During the war he took part in all the principal engagements, particularly distinguishing himself in the battle of the Sea of Japan, the greatest naval encounter in the history of the world,