PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. D. Blick left by tho mail this morning on a short business trip to Wellington.

Tho marriage of the Hon. J. 11. Millar, to Mrs Nathan, is announced to take place at St. Paul’s, Wellington, on April 16.

The funeral of the late Mr Thomas W r alsh will leave St. Joseph’s Churca, New Plymouth, at 3 p.m. on Sunday for To Henui Cemetery.

Mr Frank Rhodes, erstwhile host of the Stratford Hotel, and presently of the Empire Hotel, Timaru, is on a short visit to the town.

Mr and Mrs Allhusen, of the Duthie road, Kaponga, are leaving on a visit to Englanc in about a fortnight’s time, having booked passages by the P. and 0. liner, Malwa.

Mr E. Kivell, accompanied by Mrs R. H. Kivell, was a passenger by the mail train this morning for Wellington, where, on Wednesday next, the wedding takes place of Mr PJ. Kivell to Miss Annie Lindsay, of that city.

Mr A. A. Marryatt, of the Government Life Insurance Department, and Mr Henry Roberts, of the Government Printing Office, have been nominated as candidates for the Civil Service Appeal Board.

Sir Ernest Shackleton has left England for the United States. He will visit several American cities for the purpose of raising funds for the scientific expedition that he intends to lead to the Antarctic, and will afterwards go to Canada.

Mr E. Clarke, who has, for the past eight years, been employed as surfaceman on the Toko branch of railway, leaves this district on Tuesday next for Kaiwnka, where he has received a well-deserved promotion to ganger.

Sir Geo. Sydenham Clarke, retiring Governor of Bombay, has been the recipient of many farewell ceremonies. The local newspapers are eulogistic of his services in promoting education and stamping out sedition. It is proposed to establish a college of commerce, and erect a statue, as memorials of his term of office.

The death of Joseph Day at the age of 73 is reported from Christchurch. He had been pilot at Sumner since 1867 and during the period he resided there he was instrumental in saving a number of persons from drowning. The Royal Humane Society of New Zealand (recently recognised his services in this respect. The late Mr Day, who was a. native of Kent, England, came to New ZealanJ with his parents in the ship Arab in 1811. The family first settled at Day’s Bay, Wellington, which was named after them.

Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., reached London on February 13. He had thoroughly enjoyed the journey Home, having been favoured with exceptionally fine weather throughout. During the two months which had elapsed since Sir Walter had left Wellington, he had stopped over at Port Said and gone up to Cairo. A 700-mile excursion on the Nile had proved of infinite interest. Then Naples, Pom peii, Romo, and Switzerland claimed Sir Walter’s attention. At the moment of writing to a friend in Wellington he mentioned that he was ir a week’s time going up to Scotland, and that ultimately he hoped to be back in Wellington, by way of Vancouver, in the first week in July.

Mr and Mrs Henry Harraway, ol Green Island, have celebrated their golden wedding, and on Monday, Mr Harraway was entertained by a number of commercial men in Dunedin. Mr A. Todd (manager of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association) presided, and on behalf of the millers and grain merchants and Aock and station agents presented Mr Harraway with a gold sovereign case for himself and a diamond and sapphire, brooch for Mrs Harraway. 'n replying, Mr Harraway said he had 1 een living in Dunedin, off and jn. for 52 years. He had 21 children, and all had arrived at manhood or womanhood. Ho returned sincere thanks for the gifts that had been presented to him and his wife.

Mr George Andrew Hutchison, founder of the “Boys’ Own Paper,” died in February last. Mr Hutchison, who was in his 72nd year, retired from the position of editor of the journal after 33 years of service a few months before. He was then in excellent health and as youthful in spirit as many of his boy readers, so that it was hoped many years were left to him for the employment of his leisure. Started in 1879, the “8.0. P.” was not very favourably received by the news agents, who believed that the schoolboy would not patronise a journal from which the blood and thunder element was absent. But Mr Hutchison had ideas of his own, and his idea of catering for the average schoolboy proved a sound one. The “8.0. P.” at once caught on, and it has now a circulation of over 200,000. Among the earlier contributors to the journal was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In an interview at the time of his retirement Mr Hutchison said “When Sir Arthur was a doctor at Southsea he sent us some stories and sketches, which were excellent, and ue accepted them. Since he became famous he has said that he must always love the ‘8.0.P.,’ because when other people refused his stories we accepted them.”