PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 77, 8 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death of Lady Curzon is reported from London.

Mr E. Everiss, of the staff of the General Post Office, Auckland, was a passenger by the mail train this morning for the north.

President Woodrow Wilson will address Congress in person. I his will bo the' first time in tin} century that a President has done so.

Mr F. Hale, of the staff of the local branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., left this morning on a short trip to Blenheim.

The Rev. George Quick, vicar of Douglas, Cork, Ireland, and ids son, Mr Stawell Quick, who are on a tour of the world, are at present on a visit to Mount Egmont.

Mr J. W. Carter, formerly proprietor of the stage coach from Eltham to Opunake, was installed yesterday as mine host of the Kaponga Hotel, having bought out the former licensee, Mr T. Gooch.

The Earl of Dudley’s son, Roderick (says a London cable message) was thrown from his horse while hunting, and is in an unconscious condition.

Mr A. T. Ngata, M.P. for the Maori Eastern District, who underwent an operation in a private hospital in Wellington a few days ago. is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. '

Miss Cecil Haines, who only attains her seventh birthday this month, has gained the Napier championship for the best reciter under 16 years of age. This is the fifth championsnip she has secured.

The Hon. W. H. Herries leaves for the south on Monday next, to complete the inspection of the railways. He will travel over all the main lines of the South Island, and expects to be absent from Wellington a month.

The Premier paid a compliment to Mr Gillies, Mayor of Hawera, at a complimentary dinner tendered to him at Hawera on Saturday evening. In proposing the health of the Mayor, he said it was evident Hawera was progressing under the rule of its worthy Mayor, and equally evident that the Mayor was proud of the town with which he was associated.

Dr. William M. Beck, who distinguished himself by his daring when fighting in the Philippines, has just joined the ranks of medical men who have operated on themselves. He had been suffering from a growth which threatened to destroy his jawbone, and he calmly stood before a mirror at hi® home the other day and performed the difficult task of operating upon himself. He made an incision just below the left jaw, cut away the flesh from the point of the chin almost to the-left ear, then‘scraped the bone and sewed up the wound.

The death is announced of the Earl of Belraore. The deceased, who was born in 1835, was the fourth Earl, and succeeded to the title when ten years of age. Since 1893 ho has been the Senior Representative Peer for Ireland. He was a Conservative in politics, and was Secretary for Home Affairs in 1866-67. He was made a Prjvy Councillor in 1867, and a year later was appointed Governor of New South Wales.. The family name is Corry, and Viscount Corry, son of the late Earl, succeeds to the title and to a landed estate oi about 15,000 acres.

Mr Emlyn Davies, a prominent Welsh baritone, denies the statement that Mr Lloyd George, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, is not musical. “For»ten years I occupied the pew immediately behind the Chancellor’s at Castle street Chapel, London.” he said in a recent interview, “and I can assure you he has a tenor voice of more than ordinary strength and sweetness. On one occasion he turned to me when we were singing a new tune, and requested me to sing the tenor part until he knew it. This he soon accomplished. He was sufficiently musical not only to sing the air, blit to retain his part with the tenors when called upon. His favourite song, as he frequently told me, is “Captain Morgan’s March,” and he was often humming the warlike refrain.”

Mr Vincent Astor, aged 21, America’s richest young man,and now in absolute control of his father’s millions, has sought the advice of Mr Sulzer, the Democratic Governor of the State of New York, regarding the best wavin which he can serve the community. They sat up almost an entire night (says the Telegraph) discussng various departments of public service-—the law, medicine, journalism, mercantile pursuits, organised philanthropy, mechanics, finance, and agriculture. Air Sulzer was greatly impressed by the youthful millionaiie s desire to shun a life of idleness and pleasure, and congratulated him upon having done one useful act recently in joining a volunteer fire brigade, “binally,” Air Sulzer said, in describing the midnight conference to the reporters, “Mr Astor decided that scientific farming would be his role. He already possesses one of the finest farms in New York State, and this he declares he will develop by experiment and have in trust for, the people. The idle rich have had their day, and Mr Astor is on the right track to prove fdmself a worthy citizen.”