PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 90, 23 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Prince of Wales will, it is reported, ijiako an extended tour of Canada early in 1914, states a cablegram from London.

Sir W. Ha 11-Jones has arrived at Fremantle by the Mooltan.

Mr George Moir, a very old resident of Eltham, died to-day; aged 78.

Captain Scott’s diaries will be published in October, states a London cablegram.

A call from the Bluff to the Rev. E. Walker, of Ormond, was sustained bv the Southland Presbytery.

Sir James Carroll was taken to a private hospital in Wellington yesterday, and now lies seriously ill.

Mr Dyson, of the Public Works Department, arrived in Stratford last evening in connection with the trial survey work on the proposed Opunake line.

The death of Mrs Sanderson, wife of Mr James Sanderson, architect (New Plymouth), occurred yesterday. The deceased was an old and highly respected resident of New Plymouth.

Mr James Garnett has been elected unopposed as Mayor of Hastings for a third terra. There are nineteen candidates for nine seats on the Borough Council, and four candidates for the Hastings seat on the Napier Harboi Board.

Mr J. A. Valentine, 8.A., hcadmast er of the Timaru South School, widely known as an officer of the New Zealand Educational Institute, was yesterday selected from fifteen appli cants for the post of secretary anc assistant-inspector for the South Can terbury Education Board. The King of Spain, young as he is, is, with but two exceptions, the senior general of the British Army. He was given this honour by the late King Edward in 1905, and less than a month later was created Colonel-in-Chief of the 16th Lancers.

Miss Ellen Melville and Dr. Florence Keller, the two ladies who have been nominated for seats on the Auckland City Council and the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, have announced their intention to address the electors.

Mr John Leydon, J.P., who, for many years, was resident in Stratford left last evening for Auckland, where he will practically make his home in future. He, however, does not intend to desert Taranaki, altogether, and, will pay occasional visits to thescparts. ■ i ■ 1 '■ . : '

r Lady Scott met and condoled with Commander Evans at Charing Cross on the death of Mrs Evans (states a London cablegram). Mrs Evans was a former pupil of St. Hilda’s, Dunedin. She was a daughter of Mi T. G. Russell, of Christchurch, and a niece of Mr G. W. Russell, M.P. (Avon).

Joseph P. Tumilty, secretary to United States President Wilson, comes from a family which has lived in New Jersey for more than half a century, the greater part of which time it has been prominent politically. He has served four terms in the lower house of the New Jersey legislature, is an orator of ability, and a keen debater. Last November he was appointed clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court, at a salary of £I2OO a year.

M.Gustaf Dalen, the young Swedish engineer and scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics last year, is now totally blind as the result of an explosion while he was making an experiment last September. M. Dalen returned to work in February, and as a thank-offering for his escape with his life he gave his workmen an extra week’s wages, amounting to about £330.

General Wilmot Bradford, w r ho has just attained the ripe old age of ninety-nine years in England, tells a story of the days when ho was quartered at Windsor, or rather billeted at an inn at Slough, while the Windsor barracks were being re-built. A “young German gentleman” arrived at the inn quite incognito; and Lieutenant Bradford, as he then was, happening to know German, struck up an acquaintance with the stranger. The “young German gentleman,” it turned out, was Prince Albert, who was staying a night at Slough before presenting himself at Windsor Castle to receive Queen Victoria’s proposal of marriage.

Miss Amy Williams, youngest daughter of W. L. C. Williams, met a tragic end, reports the Auckland Star. With other lady friends she was partaking of afternoon tea at Mr A. H. Nicoll’s

house, where a gathering was being held for the purpose of celebrating the forthcoming marriage of a lady friend, and was singing ‘‘Love’s Coronation, when she suddenly fell forward on her face. Her friends thought she had fainted and used every means to resuscitate her. Dr. Stapley was sent for, and he immediately certified that she was dead from heart failure. Miss Williams was a great favourite all over Waikato, and also in Auckland, where she had many friends.