PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir George Reid is convalescent, and lias resumed his duties, states a London cablegram.

Mr A. D. Blick was appointed lion, sec. of the local Beautifying Society at the meeting on Monthly evening.

Mr Alfred Dillon, ex-M.P., was entertained at Waipuwa last and presented with an illuminated address by the Mayor. Mrs Dillon was presented with a silver tea and coffee service.—P.A. wire.

Mr J. Laurenson and family leave Stratford on Thursday morning for Wellington, where .Mr Laurenson takes up his duties as confidential clerk to the Chief Postmaster.

The names of Sir William .Russell Mr John Duthie, and Mr C. A. C. Hardy are mentioned as among those about to bo called to the Legislative Council.

Mr Geo. Massey, sou of the Prime Minister, has been notified that he passed at the recent LL.IS. examination. Mr Massey is with the legal firm of Messrs Earle and Kent, Auckland.

The condition of the Hon. E. Mitchelson, who was recently injured in a tramway accident at Takapuna, is causing his friends some anxiety. An attack of congestion of the lungs has supervened on the injuries.

Mr Benjamin Wilson, an old 'Wellington resident, who held a responsible position in the Government Printing Office for many years, died yesterday afternoon, aged 71. He was tin; father of Mr B. M. Wilson, Director of Tourist Resorts.

Mr J. Stanton, Postmaster at Stratford, returned from his holiday trip yesterday and took up Ids duties again this morning. Mr J. Laurenson, who shortly leaves for Wellington, has been Acting-Postmaster in Mr Stanton’s absence.

Mr F. Westbury, of the Hutt, a prominent fruitgrower, has signified his intention of being present at the local Horticultural Show on the Oth and 7th prox., and will judge the vegetable classes, besides exhibiting in a small wav.

President Taft selected .Miss Julia C. Latlirop as chief of tlio new Children’s Bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labour at a salary of £IOOO a year, and the appointment was ratified by the United States Senate.

Dr. D. Steven, Medical Superintendent of the Stratford Hospital, who recently went for a trip to Sydney, in order to obtain a rest, suffered a great deal from a/ felon on the finger, which necessitated surgical attendance, both on the voyage and in Sydney. Dr. Steven’s friends will, however bo glad to learn that he is now much better and will return to Stratford very shortly.

Something like sixty visiting brethren, including several members of the Stratford and Hinemoa Lodges, visited Eltharn last night to take part in the Masonic ceremonies connected with the installation of Bro. James A. Hansen, as Worshipful Master of St. John's Lodge, No. 90, N.Z.C. The Rt. Worshipful Bro. T. C. Fookes, Provincial Grand Master, acted as Installing Master, assisted by prominent members of the Craft from all the Taranaki Lodges. Visitors were right royally entertained when the call to cease labour for refreshment camo. James Russell Lowell was never so happy ns during his tenure of the American Legation. “I do like London,” ho writes to Charles Eliot Norton soon after his appointment. ‘‘lt gives fillip to my blood, now growing more sluggish than it used to bo. I love to stand in the middle of Hyde Park, and forget myself in the dull roar of ever-circulating life which bears a burden to the song of the thrush lam listening to. It ja far more impressive than Niagara, which has nothing else to do, and can't help itself. In this vast torrent all the drops are men.”

Regarding the health of the King, a London society journal just to hand says; “A lot of nonsense was talked about the King’s health last week in many of the papers and among people who love to discuss Royalty. As a matter of fact, the cold he developed was very slight, and he had no temperature and suffered very little inconvenience. Moreover, lam assured on the best possible authority that there was nothing in the nature of an illness to make him feel in the least fatigued when he was shooting at Hillingdon just afterwards.”

The nciv Duchess of Abercorn belongs to the Irish family of Bingham, Her father, Lord Lucan, whose only daughter she is, is nearly 80. He is one of the veterans of the Crimea. Her mother, Lady Lucan, lived to celebrate her golden wedding, but died the year following (1910). She was a daughter of the fifth Duke of Richmond. The new Dnehes's’ elder son. Lord Paisley, was horn in 190-1, on the 29th of February. By a curious coincidence one of his cousins—a son of Lord Bingham, his mother’s eldest brother —was horn on the self-same day, February 29th, 1901. People have a very poor chance, of course, of having a birthday on February 29th.