PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 55, 6 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. W. Fraser, now at Wellington expects to leave on an extended tour of the North Island on aSturday next. Mr T. D. .Taylor, lato of the “Fiji Times,’ has been appointed editor of the Ashburton ‘Guardian.’*’

Mr W. H. Triggs, editor of “The Press,” Christchurch, passed through Stratford by the mail train this morn-

The will of the lato Mr Whitelaw Reid! deft his entire fortune to iiis widow and enjoined his son Ogden to control the fortunes of the New York “Tribune.”

The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Post-master-General, is to be tendered a banquet on the 13th inst. by his constituents of the Lincoln portion of tire Ellesmere electorate.

Mr D. C. Bates, Government Meteorologist, has declined an invitation to attend the International Maritime Meteorological and Storm Signal Conference to bo held in Rome

Mr F. F. Miles, the Rhodes scholarelect, is spending his well-earned leisure, prior to leaving for England in August, in going about his own country and Australia and increasing bis knowledge of the Southern States.

Mr Charles King, of Patangata, is probably the heaviest man in the dominion. He turns the scale at 29st 81b. Mr King, who was born in 1861, is a man of tremendous proportions and splendid physique.

Nelson, Gordon, and Livingstone are the three heroes that the children in the London Board Schools like best to read about. Two years ago, says the “Book Monthly,” Gordon was first, a place which Nelson has taken in the year just gone, while Livingstone has been a good third to both.

Captain W. Waller, who has resigned command of the Huddart-Parker steamer Wimmera, to become harboi master at New Plymouth, was presented with a dressing-case at Sydney last Wednesday by his fellow officers and the engineers of the vessel.

The Hon. Mr Herries, speaking at a Reform League meeting at Gisborne last night, paid a warm tribute to Mr Massey’s leadership, saying that as Prime Minister he had revealed a side of his character not disclosed when lie was leader of the Opposition.

Lady Nina Ogilvie-Grant, of New Zealand, sister of the Earl of Seafield (writes a London correspondent), was one of the signatories to an appeal issued by the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association last month to Unionist members of Parliament, asking them to support one of the amendments to the Government Beform Bill.

Rider Haggard, the one and only lion of any importance in Australia to-day looks his part, says Melbourne’s weekly journal Table Talk. That is to say he wears a literary expression upon a whiskered agricultural sort of face. Those who have met the unparalleled creator of “She,” “Jess,” and “Alan Quartermain” are charmed with his simplicity and eager intelligence. He was plainly surprised to find that the fame of his fiction has spread so far afield, and at the Lord Mayor’s reception delivered a speech which betrayed some nervousness in front of an unexpected measure of adulation

Mi - A. Henderson, tho popular secretary of tlio Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society, was accorded a social and danco last evening in the 'Foresters’ Hall, the function being a most enjoyable affair. In tho course of the evening, Mr G, Sangster, in the unavoidable absence of Chief Kennedy, who wrote regretting his inability to .be present, made a neat speech, referring to the praiseworthy manner in which Mr Henderson had worked for the Society, and trusted that he and Mrs Henderson would have a long and prosperous future. Mr Henderson suitably responded. The evening was passed pleasantly with songs, cards, and dancing. Messrs. Jones and Wilkie, and Miss Sangster contributed to the musical portion of the programme, and Messrs A. Richardson (pianist) and Kelly (cornet) supplied the dance music. A dainty supper was supplied by the ladies.

f Mrs Ethel Do Costa, L.L.8., the well-known New Zealand lady barrister and solicitor, who was described by an interviewer in the Homeland as “Soft of voice, and sympathetic in manner,” has boon induced to give her views on the decision of members of the Bar of England to stdl exclude women from their ranks. The New Zealander is quite hopeful that the day is coming when women will practise in England. .“But the vote must come first. At present the opposition of the members of the English Bar is directly traceable to the fear of increased competition.” Mrs De Costa is opposed to the appointment of women juries in cases where women’s interests are at issue, being of opinion that the majority of women do not possess the judicial mind, but she thinks there is as much work for a. woman lawyer as there is for a woman doctor, since she is enabled to deal with cases a woman would not think of submitting to a male practitioner, however sympathetic lie may be.