PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 93, 26 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Governor and Lady Liverpool yesterday visited Cambridge. His Excellency performing the opening ceremony at the Cambridge Chrysanthemum Show. They were accorded a civic reception, and presented with an illuminated address. The ice-Regal party displayed great interest in the exhibition, and after inspecting the picturesque grounds of the Cambridge Domain they left by motor car for Okoroire. The Governor will return to Cambridge next I riday to w itness the field operations of the Auckland Brigade Mounted Rifles, now in camp at Cambridge.

Archbishop Clarke’s conditions shows a decided improvement, states a London cablegram.

Mr Bryce, British Ambassador, has (says a Washington cablegram) departed homewards, via New York, San Francisco, China, and Japan.

Mr Frederick Train, store-keeper, of Waitotara, has definitely decided to contest the Patea seat, in the Liberal interest. The Tribune says he is understood to bo the accredited candidate of the party for the electorate, Mr O’Dea having stated that he will not re-contest the seat.

Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., and Mr G. Laurenson, M.P., are writing in collaboration a biography of the late Mr T. E. Taylor. Mr Isitt will deal with Mr Taylor’s work in the No-license movement and his personality, and Mr Laurenson with his work in politics. It is expected that the biography will be published soon.

Mr E. Lionel Harvie, who has been appointed by Bishop Crossley assistant to the Rev. Butler, arrived in Stratford from Wellington last night Mr Harvie, who is a recent arrival from the Old Country, has been a journalist and a schoolmaster, and hopes to be ordained shortly.

The death of Sir Richard William Scott, aged 88, is announced from Ottawa. He was for some time Secretary of State for Canada. He was the author of the Scott Act (1875) for resti’icting the use of alcoholic liquor, and carried through Parliament the School Bill (1863) giving Roman Catholics the right to establish separate schools.

Mr Massey continued his King Country tour driving from Ohura to To Kuiti, via Aria and Piopio. He met with an enthusiastic reception at Aria and Piopio. The party arrived at To Kuiti shortly after eight o’clock. He was received by the Mayor and Borough Councillors. He proceeds to Tangita to-day and to Taumarunui to-night. ' ':'

Mr J. F. Stevenson, of LCnpimi, lias just' taken a crop of 100 bushels of barley per gcre from a field of 30 acres. This crop followed a crop ot turnips, which yielded 66J tons per acre. The correspondent of the Star points out that although the turnip crop was well-manured, the barley ,crop received absolutely no manure.

The Pope recently related a wonderful dream he had. He thought he had returned to his beloved Venice, and that he was being rowed in his old patriarcliial gondola along the Grand Canal. Suddenly, in the blazing sunlight, the sky above St. Mark’s Cathedral opened and revealed a vision of his dead sister Rosa descending and saying to him, “Your moment has not come to join me; your work is not finished.”

Mr Thomas Trask, of the Public Works Department, lately transferred to Stratford from Hawera, has been on sick leave at Rotorua, undergoing a course of treatment at the baths. In a letter to the Star office, he expresses very enthusiastically the benefit he is receiving from the bath called “The Spout.” He expects to bo able to put aside his crutches in a few days, and to return to Taranaki in a fortnight.