PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 28 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Professor W. T. Mills is stated to be a Labor Party candidate for the Manawatu seat at the next general election.

The Ditches of Connaught spent a restless night, and that the improvement previously noted has not been maintained.

The Crown Prince of Germany has devoted the profits of his Indian diary to sending one hundred school children to the seaside for throe weeks’ holiday.—Cable.

Mr F. Murray, Government Stock Inspector, at Elthara, died cn Staurday morning in a private hospital in Xew Plymouth. A tumor on the brain was the cause of bis death.

The Pope has dissolved the marriage of King George of Bavaria, and the Archduchess Isabelle. A Berlin cablegram adds that the latter regains her status in the Austrian Imperial House.

Mr Kenneth Mackenzie, M.D., F.R.C.S., son of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, who has been in Edinburgh and London for some years, and has distinguished himself in surgery, will return to New Zealand in May to practice surgery in Auckland.

The members of the Forestry Commission, Messrs. H. D. M. Haszaici (chairman), C. P. Murdoch, S. L Clarke, F. T. Lethbridge, T. uAdams and Dr. Cockayne, left Auckland on Friday, some to go to Mokau by way of Te Kuiti, and others to go down the Wanganui River by way of Taumarunui.

The Rev. G. S. Bryan-Brown, M.A. (Cambridge),_ who has been appointed chaplain of Christ’s College, has been chaplain and assistant-master at Trinity College, Glenalmond, for the past five years. He had a brilliant scholastic and athletic career at his university, played for the seniors both at football and cricket, and represented the university at hockey. He is 27 years of age.

Mr George Rignold the actor (in private life George Richard Rignall) left property in New South Wales valued at £11,138. ‘ .In Victoria his personal estate is valued at £3/11, and he also had property in England. The late Mr George Moir, who passed away this week, and Mr John Henwood, of Eltham, were the two first white men to settle in Eltham.

Mr H. B. Lusk, M..A-, of Christ College staff, will leave New Zealand in August to take up an as-sistant-mastership at Clifton College, in accordance with the arrangement by which there shall be an exchange of masters between Christ’s College and various English public schoo I s.

The Ven. Archdeacon Xeild, v. bo was until recently vicar of St. Mary’s Mornington (Dunedin), will take up his residence in Auckland at the end of June, as organising secretary of the Melanesian Mission.