PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The English Primate is suffering from a severe attack of influenza.

M. Poincare, the French President, will pay a visit to King George in June.

Obituary: Herbert Druco, who was prominent in the celebrated Druco case.—London cablegram.

Mr Thomas Finlayson, partner and managing director in Auckland of Sargood, Son and Ewen, died yesterday, aged 65. —P.A.

Mr Underwood (states a Washington cablegram) is suffering from a breakdown owing to hard work in connection with the Tariff Bill.

Mr Burt, the veteran Labor member of the House of Commons, has retired from the secretaryship of the Northumberland Miners’ Union owing to his advanced age.

The Duchess of Connaught is progressing well, and will go south in a few weeks’ time. She will not accompany the Duke of Connaught on his return to Canada in May.

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., has been elected the representative on the New Plymouth Harbour Board of the grouped Boroughs of Eltham, Stratford, and Inglewood. Mr Wilkinson was, the only nominee. »

There was a picturesque wedding at Westminster Abbey (states a London cablegram), when Lord Salisbury’s daughter, Beatrice, was married to the Hon. W*. G. Orinsby-Gore, member for Denbigh. King George, Queen Mary and Queen Alexandria sent presents.

Dr. Benjamin Bayliss, late of the 65th Regiment, died at the hospital on Tuesday evening, in his 83rd year. Mr Bayliss, who was a native of Worcester shire j enlisted in 1831, and served throughout the Maori war. He had been a resident of the Veterans’ Home since 1905 (says the News).

The death has occurred in Sydney of Mr Walter Sydney Jackson, formerly a well-known representative Association player in Wellington. He went away a few weeks ago on a holiday visit to his brother, who resides in Sydney.

The Anglican Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Crossley, left on Wednesday nighi for a fortnight’s tour of the Great Barrier, where he will conduct services at various places in the island. This is the first visit of an Anglican Bishop to the Great Barrier since the days of Bishop Selwyn.

Mr Geo. Bradley, lato of Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., Feilding, arrived in Stratford yesterday to join the staff of Mr T. Lamason, auctioneer. Mr Bradley, who has had considerable experience In all branches of the business, should bo a decided acquisition to the firm.

A memorial service to the late Pierpont Morgan wrs held in the Abbey. The King and Queen were represented, states a London cablegram. Another message from New York states that the body has been interred in the Mauspleum at Hartford, Connecticut. Crowds attended St. George’s Episcopal Church in New York where the funeral service was read. The Bishops of Boston, Connecticut, and New York officiated. The Hon. Elihu Root (Secretary of War), Mr Seth Low (ex-Mayor of New York), and Mr Choate (British Ambassador) were amongst the pall bearers.

All is not well with Queen Alexandra, writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Sun. Flat contradiction is given to every public statement that her Majesty is not enjoying the robust health which was once hers. Nevertheless, unless the observation of the great majority of people who move in Court circles is entirely wrong, King Edward’s consort is not enjoying that hale old age which all loyal Englishmen would wish for her. “Old age” is a phrase which would be inadmissible in an English paper, but I think it will be conceded that since Queen Alexandra celebrates the 50th anniversary of her arrival in England about the time that you receive this letter, there is some little excuse for employing the phrase. Strangely enough, most of those who were present at her marriage are still above the soil. Of her eight trainbearers only one has passed away. All the others have married, brought up families, and have attained the distinction of dowagerdom.