PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lady Scott lias arrived in London in good health.

Mr Mulvey, late of Invercargill, l>as been appointed chief clerk at the Stratford Post Office.

The Duchess of Connaught has had her appendix removed, and she is now progressing favourably, states a London cablegram.

The death of the mother of M. Poincaire, President of France, is announced by cable.

Rev. J. C. Jamieson, who has been associated with tho Presbyterian Church in Now South Wales, has accepted the position of assistant-minis-ter of Knox Church, Dunedin.

Mr J. C. Williamson was a passenger by the Ventura from Sydney. H© is going to San Francisco, and then across America to New York, where ho will see the various theatrical attractions. Later on he will cross to London and Europe, in search of attractions for his firm’s Australian theatres.

The friends of Mr Hugo Gorlitz, tho well-known impressario, will be sorry to learn that he has lately been in ill-health, and recently underwent an operation (writes a London correspondent). The last bulletin is mart favourable, and the patient is making good progress towards recovery. M Kubelik’s famous Guarnerius violin, valued, at £2500, is still held by the Berlin Court. It was seized in order to satisfy a judgment in favour oi Mr Gorlitz, the proceedings having been instituted, in connection with breach of contract on the occasion ol M. Kubelik’s NevV Zealand tour in 1908.

O’Donovan Rossa, the famous Fenian, is stated to be dying in comparative poverty at Staten Island. He lives in a ramshackle little cottage, with his wife and three daughters. He is nearly eighty-three years old, and suffers from rheumatism. Ho has done a certain amount of literary work during the past few years, since lie returned from Cork, but his circumstances are such that the Irish societies are understood to be planning a substantial testimony' to him. O’Donovan Rossa was one of the most famous leaders of the Fenian Broth erhood and the physical force party in Ireland. He was tried for sedition in 1865, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was soon released, however, and went to America, where he remained until 1905, when he returned to Ireland and was elected clerk to the Cork County Council. He resigned this appointment after two years, and returned to the United States. > i I -'!:

For the bravest act of the year the Stanhope gold medal of 1912 has been awarded to Mr D. Palmer, second engineer of the steamship Meifoo, foi a heroic deed when the vessel sank after a collision on April 23, 1911. In 1912 the Royal Humane Society of Great Britain awarded 13 silver medals, 130 bronze medals, 631 testimonials, and 161 pecuniary awards. Mr Palmer’s deed was performed off Elgar Island, off the Chinese coast, when the Meifoo, belonging to the Chinese Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company, was run into by tho same company’s steamer Kwanglee in a dense fog. The Meifoo, which had a large number of native passengers on board, rolled over and sank four minutes afterwards in a depth of 15 fathoms. The chief officer, Mr James Smith, who could not swim, was going down with the ship, when Palmer jumped after him and succeeded in getting him clear of the wreck, supporting him in an unconscious state for an hour, when they wero picked up by a boat. Admiral Morant, who presided, said that Palmer had dived among the seething mass of drowning people.