PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 91, 24 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Duchess of Connaught is worse, states a London cablegram.

The Rev. Oswald M. Stent, M.A., succeeds Rev. W. Klindgondcr in the Opunake parochial district.

Archbishop Clarke’s condition is unchanged, reports a cablegram from London, and there is still danger.

The following resignations were accepted at the Education Board meeting yesterday :—Mrs Dupree, assistant Inglewood; Miss M. Bollinger, assistant, Huiakarna and Miss D. Smith, assistant, Cardiff.

Mr H. D. Bedford, ex-M.P., who stood against the Hon. J. :A. Millar at the last election, is reported to have joined the United Labor Party. Mr Millar, it is understood, is joining the Government forces.

Mr G. F. P rosser, late of Waitara, was, out of sixty applicants, selected as the travelling representative of the Rangitikei Sawmillers’ Co-oper-ative Association, Ltd,, with its head office at Taihape,

Mr Charlie Taylor, of the TaylorCarrington Co. of entertainers, has, it is reported, received a legacy ol some £4OOO from family lands, and, with Mrs Taylor (Ella Carrington), shortly leaves on a trip to England.

The death occurred at Lepperton this morning of Mr Thomas Harold, a well-known farmer. Mr Harold had been ill only a fortnight, but. recently the trouble turned to brain fever. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs M. H. Brooking, of Stratford.

The Very Rev. Father Price has received a cablegram informing him thai Bishop Grimes, who had been seriously ill iu Marseilles, was now out of danger. His Lordship has abandoned his proposed visit to Malta and wil spend his convalescence at La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon.

Messrs Geo. N. Curtis, R. McK. Morison, T. Harry Penn, W. P. Kirkwood, and Percy Thomson arc gazetted as the Stratford Domain Board. Mr Thomson succeeds Mr P. F. Ralfe, who for health reasons finds it advisable to spend a good deal of time in the North, and who is at present at Raglan.

Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the new American President, k as eloquent as her father. She drew an enormous crowd to the loung Women’s Christian Association at Trenton, New Jersey, when sfie made hei debut as a lecturer, on which occasion she told a number of personal stories which beautifully illustrated her talk on, the joy of service. Miss Wilson said that much of the pleasure derived from life w'as the joy of doing things.