PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs James Rutherford underwent a serious operation this morning at the Stratford Hospital.

The death is announced from New Jersey of Rear-Admiral John Moore, of the United States Navy.

Dr. J. P. Cameron and Mrs Cameron, who have been on a visit to the Wairarapa, returned to Stratford last evening.

Mr W. H. Hawkins, ex-M.P. for Pahiatna, and now farming at Tataraimaka, near New Plymouth, will lie a candidate for the Taranaki seat at the next general election in opposition to the sitting member.

Mr W. H. Were was the only candidate nominated for the vacancy on the Stratford County Council caused by the resignation of Councillor E. Meredith;-East Riding, and has consequently been declared duly elected.

Mr C. Spencer Compton, organist of St. Matthew’s Church, Masterton, paid a hurried visit to Stratford yesterday on business in connection with the Masterton Competitions Society, of whose committee Mr Compton is a member. An announcement with regard to the competitions appears elsewhere.

Mr H. Wilson left by the mail train this' morning for Wellington, and leaves on Friday by the Warrimoo for Sydney, en route for the Old Country. This is Mr Wilson’s third “grand tour” within tho last ten years, and ho proposes spending the next eight or nine months renewing old friendships in Europe, and seeing fresh sights. While his itinerary is not yet arranged, he is expected to return at Christmas.

Mr E. H. Young, who for the past ten years has been in the office of Mr T. C. Fookes, solicitor, and recently as managing clerk, has resigned his position, and left on Saturday afternoon by the three o’clock train, en route for Auckland. Mr Young’s departure has come as a bjg surprise to his many friends here. A good athlete, he has captained the, Stratford Football Club’s senior team and has also been a prominent member of the Stratford Tennis Club.

President Wilson is the first Democratic President since Cleveland, and lie is also a Warm personal friend of the widow of President Cleveland, with whom he lived, in the same town of Princeton, N.J., for a good many years, so that it is likely that the former Mrs Cleveland, who on January 10th became the wife of Prof. Thomas Jex Preston, jn., at the executive mansion of Princeton University, will he again a prominent figure in the social circles of Washington during the present regime. At the wedding., the bride was; attended by her daughter, Miss Esther Cleveland, a.nd the groom, who is a fine-looking sixfooter of 50, hyhis brother. They are at present in Florida. | Mrs Preston is 48, hut looks much younger.

Miss Elsie E. Brake, daughter of Mr John Brake, of Stratford, was married on Monday to Mr P. J. Sheridan, of Wanganui, at the Roman Catholic Church, Wanganui. Miss Nellie Brake, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, -and Mr Roach as best man. The wedding was a quiet one, only intimate friends being present. After the wedding the guests were entertained at breakfast in the young couple’s new home at St. John’s. The bride is well known in Stratford, where, as Nurse Brake, she made many friends. Mr Sheridan, who is connected with the Agricultural Department,. was for some time inspector at the Stratford abattoirs. The Stratford guests present were Mrs Brake (the bride’s mother), Mrs McNeely, and Mr John Leydon. The presents .were both numerous ano costlv.

Lieutenant Francis L. Harris, last survivor of the Hayes Arctic expedition, which went North in search ol Sir John Franklin in 1860, died last month at his home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in his eighty-eighth year. The Hayes expedition loft Boston on July 10th 1860, on board the United States, and got as far north as 84 degrees, where an island was found and named after Lieutenant Harris. The party was away about two years, and although it made a diligent search and suffered great privations, it did not find Sir John Franklin. The expedition brought back many specimens for the Smithsonian Institution, 'When the United States returned to Boston, the civil war was well under way, and Lieutenant Harris enlisted in the Union navy and fought throughout the war. Before going to the Arctic, Lieutenant Harris was a midshipman on board the St. Louis, which sailed around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean.