PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. E. Farby, of Wellington, has joined the office of Mr Newton King’s Stratford branch. Madame Melba’s son, states a Brussels cablegram, is recovering after having had a serious relapse. Mr F. N. Fussell was a passenger j by the mail train this morning en | route for Timaru, where, on Sunday J next, Mr and Mrs Fussell celebrate j their golden wedding. Mr Charles E. Armstrong, for many years managing clerk to Mr P. H. j Watts, solicitor, Hamilton, lias joined j the staff of Mr Cecil Wright. Mr Armstrong takes up his new duties next week.

Mrs W. H. Ryan, of Stratford, received word this morning that her eldest brother, Mr T. Walsh, of Rarawa House, New Plymouth, and well known and respected in that district, had passed away, after a long illness, through paralysis. Deceased, who was for some years guard on the railways, leaves a wife and five children.

Obituary: Lord Llandaff, aetat 87 (reports a* London cablegram). Henry Matthews, P.C., Q.C., was descended from the Welsh family of Mathew of Llandaff, another branch of which were formerly Earls of Llandaff, in the peerage of Ireland, and was born in Ceylon. He was a Conservative in politics and was Home Secretary from 18S6 to 1892.

The Premier will, it is understood visit Stratford again in the near future, when his stay will be somewhat longer than on the recent flying trip. Mr Massey is a picture enthusiast, and he staged during a private interview with Madame Bernard that he would spend one of the evenings on his next visit at His Majesty’s picture show.

Mr Frederick Halsey Janson, the oldest solicitor in England, celebrated his 100th birthday on February Bth, and received congratulatory deputations from the Law Society, the Lowtonian Society, and other bodies of which he is a member. “One of my first recollections,” said Mr Janson, “is when I was at a Quaker’s school at the age of seven hearing the bells tolling for the death of George ITT. in 1820. My first theatre, too, I can remember. I was about ten when I went to Drury Lane, and sat through three or four hours of ‘Borneo and Juliet,’ arid at the end came a pantomime in which Grimaldi, the famous clown, took part.” Admitted a solicitor and attorney in 1835, Mr Janson remained in active practice until 1900. His name, is still on the rolls. His firm, now named Janson, Cobh, Pearson and Co., is believed to be the oldest in existence, and has a continuous set of records from 1732. When he was a young man, Mr Janson used to smoke a good deal, but he gave up the habit,and for some years he strongly objected to young men smoking in his house. When well over seventy he took to tobacco again, and enjoyed his after-dinner cigar, but a few years ago he discarded the habit.