PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 3 April 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. B. Metson, Mrs Me'tsou and family left by the mail train this morning for Christchurch. Mr Harold Beauchamp was to-day elected Chairman of Directors, of the Bank of New Zealand.—Wellington P.A. Mr Kwei Chili, the mew Chinese Consul for New ZeahTnd, arrived in Wellington yesterday together with his wife. Mr George Young, a member of the Inglewood Borough Council, has, in response to a strong requisition, decided to contest the Mayoralty of that town. Mr E. Page, S.M., relieving Magistrate at New Plymouth, left yesterday for Palmerston North. Mr A. Cooke, S.M., is expected back at Now Plymouth on the 7th in’st.

Mi - George Spriggens, for some 12 years' president of the Wanganui Rugby Union, has been re-elected unopposed for the position.

' The death occurred yesterday of Mr Thus. Cook, one of the oldest residents of Pefcone. Deceased was the head of the well-known firm of Cook’s Cooperage. He had been ailing for some time.

Mr N. Fulton, dairy instructor at Stratford, leaves to-night by the mail train en route for Auckland, where he will he joined by Mrs Fulton. Mr Fulton then intends to sail for Vancouver, and from thence to make an extended tour of Canada, and the Old ■Country.

M rs Smith, wife of Mr S. G. Smith, died at New Plymouth this morning, following a- case of confinement, the child also succumbing. Mrs Smith was a sister-in-law of Mrs W. Blair, of Stratford, to whom and'to the bereaved husband (a son of the late K. M. Smith and well-known in Stratford district) will be extended widespread sympathy. r - j ■ i .

The Premier and Minister for Public' Works, accompanied by Mr J. B. Hi no, M.P., His Worship the Mayor, Mr J. B. Richards (secretary of the Stratford Chamber of Commerce) and Mr. G. T. Murray (acting-resident en* gineer) left this morning at 8 o’clock by motor via the Ngaire and Finnerty Roads, for the purpose of inspecting the country which the Stratford route to Ivaponga traverses. , -,,

The death on Friday last, of Mrs Ellen Bennett, who arrived in the ship Lord Burleigh, in 185 G, is announced from Auckland. The deceased was. born in Cornwall, on June 6, 1847, and came out to New Zealand with her, parents, Mr and Mrs John Short, who first settled at Mt. Roskill, and afterwards at Tamaki. Mrs Bennett leaves her husband, Mr Frederick Jahez Bennett, a very well known old colonist, and a family of six sons and five daughters. The sons include Mr A. G. Bennett, of Manaia.