PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr C. H. Suisted, of Hawera, has been appointed public auditor under the Friendly Societies Act. Justice Parker succeeds LordAcnaghten as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.—London cablegram. Mr W. D. Anderson (of Wake and Anderson, Auckland) arrived in Stratford this morning on a short visit. Miss J. Gordon, of Wanganui, ar-1 rived in Stratford on Thursday, to take up her duties on the staff of the Stratford District High School (secondary department). Miss R. A. Corr, a passenger from New Zealand per the Maheno, lost jewellery valued at £4O during the voyage. It is believed to have been stolen, states a Sydney message. _

Mr Peter Waite, chairman of the Elder Smith Company, has donated £IO,OOO as the nucleus of a provident fund for the company’s employees, savs an Adelaide cablegram.

Mr G. V. Tate, who was recently asked to accept the position of judge in the Stratford A. and P. Association’s dairy farm competitions, has written to the Association regretting his inability through illness to accept the position. Mr R. Lambie, senr., Pihama, will be asked to take up the duties.

The following is the list of New Plymouth candidates at the recent teachers’ examinations whose work has been, deemed worthy of special mention :—ln class D: Margaret Shannon Bullard, for needlework; Isabel Edwards, freehand drawing; Arthur Jas. Thomas, dairy work, mechanics and hydrostatics; and Daisy Alfreda Smith, dairy work. In Class C: Horace Jas. Mackie, physiography; and Daisy Alfreda Smith, dairy work.

A somewhat unique wedding was celebrated at Palmerston on Wednesday (says the Foxton Herald), when Mr H. N. Hooker was married to Miss Myrtle Collinson, daughter of Mr H. C. Collinson. The bridal party rode to the church, the bride and bridegroom being mounted on black horses, that ridden by the bride being the gift of the bridegroom. They were accompanied by Mr Harry Hooker, as best man, and Miss Doris Collinson as bridesmaid, who were mounted on bay horses. The bride and bridesmaid were each attired in riding costume.

Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, a. :ough of such tender years, is apparently already aware of her importance in the world. A story is going the rounds that at the New Year’s Court reception at The Hague the little princes swas brought down,but utterly declined to he embraced, presenting her small fist instead for the ladies to kiss. Princess Juliana has a little Court of her own, the members of which designate her as Heiress Apparent, and greatly resent hearing her mentioned as Heiress Presumptive. The latter title is, as a matter of fact, tho more correct appellation of the two, as the advent of a brother would automatically extinguish the claim of Princess Juliana to the Crown of tho Netherlands.