PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 19 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Prince of Wales has returned to London.

The Royal Indian Marino has initiated a memorial to Lieutenant Bowers, who lost his life in Scott’s polar expedition.

Air J. McCluggage was granted leave of absence at the meeting of the New Plymouth Harbour Board yesterday, owing to the illness of his wife.

Mr Edwin G. Skelton, manager of the New Plymouth branch of the New Zealand Express Company, Ltd., has been promoted to the management of the Invercargill branch, states the News.

Mrs Maud L. Pearce, a resident of Auckland, expired in the smoking room of the steamer Macedonia (states a Sydney cablegram). Deceased was going to London.

Mr Percy Broughton, who, as an agent of the Canadian Society has spent several years as a missionary to the Esquimaux in Baffin Land, is at present in Sydney.

Pastor William White, of the Baptist Church at Launceston, died on Friday week, aged 85 years. During his pastorate he celebrated over 1100 marriages.

Mr J. T. Stewart, aged 75, one of Wanganui’s oldest and most respected residents has passed away. He Was formerly a Public Works engineer and member of the Wanganui River Trust.—P.A. wire.

The death occurred in Auckland on Wednesday of Mr Samuel Yaile, in his 85th year. Mr Yaile was a partner in the firm of Samuel Yaile and Sons, land and estate agents, but had retired from business some years ago. He was well known throughout New Zealand, being a strong suppqrter of the stage system of railways. He was one of the pioneers of Auckland.

Mr Frank Wallace, of Waverley, who is about to take up his residence at Ohaupo, Waikato, was farewelled in the southern township on Wednesday evening last, says the Waverley Tribune. Presentations were made of a beautiful marble clock, handsome silver entree dish, and gold sovereign case. Nearly fifty residents of the town and district attended the gathering.

Miss Gladys Taylor, M.A., LL.B., who conducted a case in the District Court, Melbourne,. on Friday, 11th instant, has the distinction of being the first lady to appear in the capacity of advocate in a court of justice in Victoria. She was the fourth lady to obtain the law degree at the Melbourne University, ,and, although others have appeared in courts as solicitors instructing counsel, they have not essayed the task of conducting a case in person.

The Bishop of London, in referring recently to answers to prayer, said that the answer might come in a different way to that which we expected. In this connection he said: “I have just altered for dear Mrs Scott, Captain Scott’s mother, at her request, after seeing her on Wednesday, the prayer which I wrote for the Antarctic expedition into a thanksgiving for the glorious and heroic end. Our prayer was not answered in the sense that they came safely back to their homes, but that all those who loved him should give a thanksgiving for an answer that will ring down time for ever, and which has raised the standard of manhood in our generation and in generations yet unborn. Do not tell me that that was no answer to our prayers! He did not even deign to take a drug from amongst the”stores to shorten his pain.”