PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Archbishop Clarke is now out of danger.—London cable.

Hona Whatahnhn, a native who died at Kaigoose on Thursday, is stated to have been over one hundred years old.

The death of Canon Hough, a prominent Anglican clergyman, is announced from Sydney.

The Governor has re-appointed Mr A. P, Atkinson as a member of the Victoria College Council,

Mr Godfrey Watson, starter of the Victorian Racing Club, is dead, reports a Melbourne message.

Miss E. Belton (Cardiff) has been appointed probationer nurse at the Stratford Hospital.

Mr and Mrs E. Vickers, of Radnor Road, leave this evening on a visit to Auckland.

Mr and Mrs Henry Weston left yesterday for Wellington, en route to England per the s.s. Rotorua.

The death occurred in Melbourne on April 10th of Mr J. F. Perrin, formerly editor of the New Zealand Tablet.

Miss Papps, late infant mistress at Inglewood was, on Wednesday, presented by her former scholars with a gold bangle and by members of the Anglican Church Choir with an autograph album.

Mr J. M. Nelson, schoolmaster, at Mohaka, is dead. Mr Nelson was a native of Yorkshire, and was 59 years old. He arrived in New Zealand 36 years ago, and had since been engaged in teaching.

Mr John F. Ewen, of Dunedin, lias been appointed a director of Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ltd. The other members of the directorate are Messrs R. Sargood (Dunedin), D. A. Ewen (Wellington) and M. Laing (London).

Mr G. E. Jago, of the New Plymouth branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to the Eltham office, where he will fill the position of teller. Mr Jack Glen, of the Auckland office, and formerly of Mapaia, will succeed Mr Jago.

Mr W. Morant Bayly, who for the past nineteen years has been the p6pular Manager of the National Bank’s Stratford branch, has been granted three months’ holiday leave,, to commence in a few days. Mr Bayly has not previously had a holiday of mpre than a week or two all the time he Jiasj been here, and is looking forward appreciatetively to the rest.

Mr J. Pratt, a settler of about 30 years’ standing in Taranaki, who lived in Hawera in its early days, then in the Eltham district for eighteen ears, and latterly at Tarata, has sold his farm at Tarata and gone to settle near Palmerston North. Mr Pratt, in the ’sixties, was in the British Navy, and spent five years in Eastern waters.

When Dr. Woodrow Wilson was holding his inaugural reception in the White House at Washington a few weeks ago, he recalled an amusing Incident which occurerd during the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to th(?,{United States. President M'Kinley, himself the most abstemious of men, desired to entertain the visitor at a “beer feet” and gave the necessary orders to the White House staff. He was told that the storerooms contained no “steins” or goblets of the kind required for the proper consumption of lager beer, and he replied that a supply could be borrowed from an hotel. This was dope, and when Prince Henry “took a sight” through the glass bottom of one of the steins he saw engraved there the words: “Stolen from Ernest Gerstenburg.” The saloon proprietor had adopted this simple means of checking the thefts which had been committed by a section of his patrons. Now the White House has its own steins.