PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Madame Melba’s son is slightly better, says a Paris cablegram, The Pope is suffering from a slight attack of influenza, states a cable from Rome to-day. The King and Queen of England, it is reported by cable, visit ienna at the end of May. The death of Pauline Johnson, the Indian poetess, is announced from Vancouver. Mr P. O’Dea, barrister and solicitor, Hawera, is joining the legal firm of Caplen, Welsh, and McCarthy, of Hawera.

Cardinal Gibbons, the wcll-knov. n American prelate, Ms, blessed the suffragettes at Baltimore, characterising them as modern Joans of Arc. Mr Christian Hellemann, organist and choirmaster of the Petersham (N. S.W.) Congregational Church, has accepted the conductorship of the Wellington Choral Society. Mr E. Pridham, M.A., 1 late headmaster of the New Plymouth High School, accompanied by Mrs Pridham, left Wellington on Friday by the Maunganui for Sydney, en route to England. Mr John Lomas, Secretary of Labour and Chief Inspector of Factories, has resigned -his position, owing to ill-health. The appointment of his successor will probably be deferred until the PiiQlic Service Commissioners assume office on April Ist.

Mr T. T. Noble, organist of York Minister, has been appointed organist of St. Thomas’s Church, Fifth-avenue, New York. The church was destroyed by fire three years ago, and it is now being rebuilt, at a cost of £200,000. Mr Noble was selected for his new appointment out of 79 applicants. Mr “Pat” underwent an operation for appendicitis this morning at Nurse Stronach’s private hospital, the operation being performed by Dr. McDairmid, of Hawera, Di. Paget being unable to operate as yet on account of his injured shoulder. The operation was completely successful, and Mr Burgess’s many friends will be pleased to learn that he is now progressing favourably.

Rifleman James, of the Okawa Rifle Club, winner of the Championship Belt at Trenthara, . was accorded a public reception on his arrival at Hastings by the express train on Saturday evening- 'lbout five hundred people assembled at the railway station. After a formal welcome, James was carried shoulder high to a motor car. A procession, headed by the Town Band, marched through the main streets. Subsequently congratulatory speeches were made from the balcony of the Grand Hotel by the Mayor, Colonel A. H. Russell and Mr A. L. D. Fraser.

The case of Father Raizoff, a venerable Orthodox priest ot Odessa, is an illustration of the extent to which religious intolerance in Russia will go (says a writer in, the ‘Christian World’ of January 2-3). It is calculated to waken Up even the most assertive a,id exclusive Anglican. This priest has just been dismissed from his living after 40 years’ service in the National Church. His offence? His daughter married an Englishman, a-member of the Church of England, Father Razoff opposed the marriage, but in vain. Tne sage ecclesiastics who sat in judgment upon him held that he had neglected his duty in not so attaching his daughter’s affections to Orthodoxy that the daring Britisher would have wooed hen in vain!

Dr. Charles M. Sheldon has been making a twelve weeks’ trip in the western State of America, and has held meetings *in 42 towns (says a recent issue Of the “Christian World’'’). The author of “In His Stops” has set himself to be a propagandist of “everyday Christianity in a practical world where people work.” He stayed at Y.M.C.A. buildings to get away from tobacco smoke, which he found offensive in hotel lobbies. At one place in California, where the Bible is prohibited in the schools by law, he was told just before going on the platform by the principal not to bring religion into his speech, as it might get him into legal trouble. Dr. Sheldon told the principal that if he had to leave Christianity out of his speech he would not talk. The principal said later that he would risk it, and Dr. Sheldon gave his address. Dr. Sheldon’s new hook is called “Of One Blood.”