PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 92, 25 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Clarke is stated to ho rather better.—London cable.

The death of Sir Richard William Scott is reported from Ottawa.

Mr A. Fraser, after 14 years’ service as Town Clerk and Borough Treasurer of Foxton, has resigned.

Mr A. Healy is severing his connection with Mr Newton King to take up farming near Otaki.

Mr John Saxeley, aged 91, the inventor of the railway interlocking system, is dead.

Mr J. E. Roe, Hawera, was in Stratford to-day in connection with new buildings he has in hand.

Mr Joe McMahon, well-known in theatrical circles, is a candidate for a seat on the Auckland City Council.

The municipality of Falmouth entertained Sir Joseph Ward, who afterwards opened the Flower Show. — London cable.

Mr G. Castles, chief clerk in the Attorney-General’s department, Melbourne, will succeed Mr Powers as Federal Crown solicitor.

Mrs E. Dockrill, of New Plymouth, has been nominated for a seat on the New Plymouth Hospital and Charitable Board.

Messrs Anderson, Rutherford, and Macalister have been appointed solicitors to the Whangamomona County Council, the appointment being formally confirmed at Wednesday’s meeting of the Council.

Mr Nugent Abercrombie, an engineer of California, passed through Stratford yesterday to New Plymouth to inspect the Taranaki oillields before he leaves for Vancouver. Mr Abercrombie is connected with the oil industry in U.S.A.

Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Ronmania, has been talking very freely as to what she would do were she a millionaire. She says;—“l should build a cathedral with a school beside it for every kind of art.” Then, referring to the various suggestions made by her guests, she says—“ You can build ever so many houses and misery will enter there; care will follow the inhabitants, anger and strife, and illness and death cannot be kept away. There is only one peaceful house on earth—that is God’s house.”

Madame Adelina Patti, the famous soprano whose appearance would indicate that she is at the early mioMeaged time of life, celebrated her seventieth birthday on February 17, having made her debut in public on the concert platform at the age of seven. Both her parents were well-known opera singers, as was her elder sister, Curlotta, who died in 1889, and her brother Carlo was a violinist and conductor in New York and St. Louis, Missouri, where he died in 1873.

Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of the ex-President of America, is engaged to Dr. Richard Derby, one of New York’s young and successful doctors. Miss Alice Roosevelt, who is half-sister of the bride-elect, is well known over in England, where she went after her marriage with Mr Nicholas Longworth. Miss Ethel Roosevelt is a great sportswoman. Her debut was signalised by a magnificent party given by her parents at the* White House. She recently celebrated her twenty-first birthday.

Caruso, who is associated with Madame Melba at Covent Garden (London) in opera, was dining in the West End of London and the cook prepared such a delightful dish of macaroni that he insisted on going into the kitchen to thank her. He offered her a choice; either a ticket for his next concert or a song, then and there. She chose the then and there, and Caruso, one hand on the kitchen dresser, sang to her “La donna e mobile.”

Mr and Mrs Henry Weston, of New Plymouth, leave Wellington next week en route for England, and the trustees of the New Plymouth Savings Bank met at the Club yesterday morning to wish Mr and Mrs Weston bon voyage. (Mr W. L. Newman and Mr R. Cock, two of the trustees, refered to Mr Weston’s long connection with the institution as vice-presi-dent, and expresed the hope that his trip abroad would prove enjoyable, Mr Weston, in reply, thanked his colleagues for their kind expressions, and said that the Savings Bank was the only public institution with which he was now connected. Mr Weston took advantage of the opportunity of extending a warm welcome to Messrs G. W. Browne and N. King, who have just been appointed trustees of the bank, and who took their seats at the table for the first time this morning. Mr W. L, Newman has been appointed deputy vice-president during Mr Weston’s absence.