PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr C. Leech has been elected chairman of the recehtlyiformed Awakino County Council.

Mrs J. C. Hobbs left Eltham yesterday morning en route for Australia fur a holiday trip. She was accompanied by Mrs George Hobbs, says the Argus.

Mr W. L. F. Chambers has been appointed lion. sec. of the Opunake Harbour Board (says the Star) “until such time as the business of the Board warrants the payment of a salary.”

The death of Mr James Curley, a prominent member of the New South Wales Labor Party and formerly secretary to the Colliery Employees’ Federation, is announced from Sydney.

Mr and Mrs L. B. Bradstock have been appointed master and matron ol the Stoke Boys Industrial School, says a Press Association message from Wellington. , Mr Bradstock is at present master at Rongokoko School, near Eketahuna.

Cr. J. McCluggage, who was elected to fill the vacancy on the Whangamomona County Council, caused by the resignation of Cr. M. I. Jury, was, on Wednesday, formally welcomed to the Council table by the chairman, Mr A. Meredith. Cr. McCluggage briefly replied.

Miss Estelle Stead, daughter of the late Mr W. T. Stead, announces that she is constantly receiving messages from her father, who was drowned in the Titanic disaster. She says that he has informed her “that those are together who think together.”

The death of Mr J. F. Byrne removes the last of the members of the original Arahura Road Board (says the Greymouth Star). The late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, Mr J. M'Whirter, and other well-known former residents of the West Coast were members of the board when Mr Byrne was associated with it.

Sir Joseph Wai;d, with Lady Ward, visited the House of Lords, and heard the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. They were afterwards entertained at tea by Lord Blyth, several peers and members of Parliament being invited to meet them. Mrs and Miss Asquith were also present.—London correspondent of the Auckland Star.

The Premier has telegraphed to the secretary of the Stratford Chamber of Commerce. stating that he hopes to arrive in Stratford at about 4.30 or 5 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, and will take deputations on arrival, as he has to leave for Manaia and Opunake early next morning.

The funeral of the late Mr G. S. Porter, the evteran printer, who reached his 100th birthday on Tuesday, March 18th, took place at Addington cemetery yesterday. At.the graveside there were gathered around many who had known Mr Porter for long years past, and who esteemed him very highly for his sterling worth. A large number of wreaths covered the casket, including one sent by the Canterbury Typographical Society.

The guests at the Foreign Office banquet (states a London cablegram today) included Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg (Lord of the Admiralty), the Hon. Mr Asquith (Prime Minister), Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor), the Marquis of Crewe (Lord Privy Seal), and other members of the Cabinet, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Lords Lamington, Phmket, and Tennyson, Sir George Reid (Commonwealth High Commissioner), and the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand).

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., resumed his duties at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, after an absence of some months, because of illness. Mr M. Donnelly, senior member of the Council of the Law Society, was present on behalf of the profession, and referred to the pleasure felt by the profession at seeing Mr Bishop once more holding the position which he had so long occupied with distinguished success. They all hoped that he would continue to hold the position for many years. Mr Bishop, in reply, thanked Mr Donnelly and the members of the Bar, and said that he would endeavour in future, as in the past, to deserve the very good opinion that had been expressed concerning him.

The promotion of the German Crown Prince to the rank of full colonel on the occasion of his father’s birthday will entail a corresponding rise in his status in the British Army as honorary chief of the 11th Hussars, seeing that a foreign prince or potentate cannot be Offered in another army a rank lower than in his native one. It was for that reason that when King Edward, as Prince of Wales, received from the old Emperor the chiefship of the B 1 richer Hussars on the occasion of his sister, the Crown Princess’s silver wedding, he was also placed a la suite of the Prusion army as a Field-Marshal, which was his British rank.