PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 7 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs E. J. Moore, of Sydney, who has been on a visit to friends in Stratford, left here on Saturday for Auckland, and sails by the Maheno this evening.

The Premier (Mr Massey) was accorded a complimentary dinner at Hawera on Saturday evening, being enthusiastically and cordially received (states a P.A. wire), Mr Massey is visiting Moumakahiki State Farm today.

Captain Jatson, Wellington, writing to the Liverpool Merchants’ Service Guild, alleged (according to a London cable) that Lieutenant Evans told a shipmate that Captain Oates lost his feet by frost-bite before he left the tent. The bodies of the others were so attenuated as to be unrecognisable. Captain Scott was half out of his sleeping bag, with his left hand behind his bead, and the fingers of his right hand grasping a pencil.

Colonel Wolfe, lately Adjutant-Gen-eral of the New Zealand Forces, but now inspector of rifle ranges and drill halls, and who has been in Hawera inspecting the site for a local range, met with a painful accident on Thursday. Ho was climbing over a gate and fell heavily on his thigh, and by the order of Dr. Thomson he was removed to Nurse Hunt’s private hospital, where he is doing well.

The members of the Egmont National Park Board just gazetted are as follows: Messrs William Andrew Collis (New Plymouth Borough Council), James Robert Hill (Taranaki County Council), William Rogers (Stratford County Council), Charles Gondson (Hawera Borough Council), Robert McKinney ' Morisop (Stratford Borough Council), Frederick William Wilkie (Hawera County Council).

The death of Professor Edward Dowden is announced from London. Ihe deceased, who was born in T 843, was apointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Dublin in 1867, and had held many other important appointments. He was the author of numerous works, and edited many issues of the works of British poets.

Forty-nine years ago yesterday, Captain Lloyd, of the 57th Regiment, was killed by natives at Ahu \hu, near the Kaitake Ranges, after petting up a gallant fight- On the solemn anniversary, Sergeant-Major who was a member of the same regiment, and is on a visit to Sea Plymouth (says 'the News), placed a wteath on the late Captain’s grave at Te Henui.

The death of Mr Henry Wilkinson, of Invercargill, one of the Gabriel’s Gully pioneers, who took a very prominent part in the Jubilee celebrations in Lawrence in May, 1911, and also at the reunion in Dunedin during last Winter Show Week* is recorded by the Southland Times. To the deceased, who had a strong musical tent, belonged the honour of t introducing the first musical instrument on Tuapeka diggings, and the instrument (a violin) was a feature of attraction at the musical socials held during cur jubilee festivities.

The graves of Captain Scott and his companions are, the British Weekly believes, the farthest south on the earth’s surface-. Perhaps, A adds, the northernmost grave is that for a member of the expedition of Sir George Nares, to the Arctic. Sea, in the ship Alert. It is near Caps Beachy, on tho brow of a hill covered with snow, and it commands a view of the crowded masses of ice which stretch, away into the Northern Ocean. A large stohe covers the dead, and on a copper tablet at the head, the words are engraved, “Wash me, and I shall he whiter than snow.”

The announcement of the death of Sister Catherine Donovan at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, 7'imaru, will come as a painful surprise to the many friends of the convent (says the Herald). The deceased religious passed away very peacefully about 8 o’clock on Wednesday morning, after an illness of one week, meningitis being the cause of her death. She was in the sixty-first year of her age, and the thirty-second of her religious life, which had been entirely spent at our local convent. She was greatly esteemed by all who came in contact with her, and none among tljem are likely to forget the charm of her amiable and unselfish character.

Mr William Hay, of Dunedin, lias arrived in Manila in the capacity of Special Commissioner of the New Zealand Government to study trade conditions. Mr Hay is making a journey round the world on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, and from each place visited he renders a report on commercial conditions and the prospects for trade with New Zealand, In Manila he has been supplied with much valuable data by the Manila Merchants’ Association. He reached Manila by the steamer Kumana Main from Australia, and will depart again for Hongkong. From Hongkong his journey goes along to China <mast 10 Manchuria, thence to Korea, Japan, Hawaii* the United States and Canda, Europe, Africa, and India, which latter country will, probably, begins last stop before returning to New Zealand.