PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 61, 14 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice Denniston and Mrs Denniston left Stratford this morning by the mail train.

The Hon. James Allen is returning to New Zealand by the Makura from Vancouver, and will arrive early in June.—London cable.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt, while automobiling at Los Angeles, collided with a motor truck. Her ankles were wrenched and her hip lacerated. She insisted on appearing in a vaudeville programme at night. The automobile was wrecked.

The following officers were elected at the W.C.T.U Conference President, Mrs Cole; vice-president, Mrs Dow; correspondence secretary, Mrs Henderson; recording secretary, Mrs Mitchell; treasurer, Mrs Beardsley. The 1914 conference will be held at Gisborne.

Mr R. D. Harkness, of Ngaire, has booked a passage for England by the Arawa, leaving Wellington on March 20th. Mr Harkness is going Home specially to attend Shows and cattle sales, and to probably purchase Jersey cattle for New Zealand. He expects to return to the Dominion in about six months.

The member for Ashburton (Mr W. Nosworthy) was tendered a complimentary social by his constituents on Wednesday evening. There was a representative attendance of close on 600. The chairman of the County Council presided, and the Prime Minister, Postmaster-General, and several members of Parliament 'were on the platform. All delivered eulogistic speeches, and Mr Massey paid a particulaily flattering tribute to Mr Nosworthy in his dual capacity as private member and junior Government Whip. Mi Nosworthy was presented with a handsome escretoire, and Mrs Nosworthy with a manicure set.

Captain Ronald Amundsen was born in 1872, in South Norway. His mother anxious to keep her son by her side, intended him for the medical profession, but the return of Dr. Nansen from his famous journey across Greenland on ski in 1894 influenced him so much that he decided to become an explorer. He unites a marvellous enenergy and scientific knowledge with a perfect modesty Though he is an eloquent, picturesque, and sometimes lyrical conversationalist, he does not seek society. He delights, in the intervals between his long voyages, to retire to his villa in Uranienborg and enjoy middle-class comfort. He possesses several paintings by Norwegian, masters, a piano on which he plays “Les Cloches de Corneville,” a garden wherein he cultivates roses, a St. Bernard, and two fox terriers to remind him of his Eskimo dogs.