PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 6 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Ramsay McDonald has returned from India, states a London cablegram. Mr C. W. Govctt, of New Plymouth, leaves next month on a six months’ visit to England. The Duchess of Connaught had a fair night, and there is some improvement in her condition, states a London cablegram. Mr R. W. Robson, formerly editor of tlie Wairarapa Daily Times, has resigned the position of manager of the Tirnaru Post. He intends proceeding to Sydney. Mr YV. Mcßeth, of Kiwitea, wellknown in sporting circles as the owner of Crncinella, Allure, Handsome Maid, and other horses, died at the Wanganui hospital on Saturday. Mr Logan, postmaster at Waipukurau, has, after a thirty-seven years’ service, been granted three months’ holiday on full pay, after which he will be retired on superannuation. Mr Logan intends to settle somewhere in the Auckland district.

The hoadmastership of the new West End School at Palmerston North has been allotted by the school committee to Mr A. O. Buchler, at present master at Ashhurst. Mr Buchler was formerly master of the Okaiawa school, South Taranaki.

Mrs Harrison loft Eltham yesterday morning en route for England, via Wellington, breaking tier journey for a day or two at Turakina. The Argus says she expects to leave Wellington on the 4th, and will be accompanied by her two sons.

The death is reported at the great age of 99, of Mrs Cooper, who was claimed to be the prototype of Dickens’s Little Dorrit. She was a remarkable old lady. At the age of 80 she used to dress in a style that was suitable for only a woman of 25.

Mr W. M. Nelson, engineer to the Christchurch Tramway Board, has resigned his position, and has rejoined the staff of the Brisbane Tramway Company, and Mr E. P. Turner, the power-house superintendent, lias been appointed to undertake the immediate supervision of the other engineering departments, as well as his own.

The Lord Chief Justice of England, although lying at the point of death, persistently refuses to retire from office, his attitude, without doubt, being due to his weakened mental condition. Lord Alverstone insists that he will be back on the bench in a few days. The Government docs not desire to hurt the feelings of the distinguished judge, but it is clear (states a recent cable) that some drastic steps will be necessary in the interests of the,public.

Mr Peter Barr, of Dunedin, and Mr 1. H. Richardson, Commissioner of the Government Life Insurance Department, have been appointed hy the Governor to be two members of the Public Service Board of Appeal, retired to be appointed under section 52 of the Public Service Act of 1912. Mr Peter Barr is chairman of the Board. Mr Alexander Mill, of the Telegraph Office, Auckland, has been dectcd unopposed to represent the telegraph officers. The voting for two nembers of the Board to represent '.he public service (other than the Postal Department), and one to act for the offices of the Postal Department, will be counted on the 15th inst.

The accession of King Constantine 0 the Throne of Greece has created 1 d**p impression among those of his aibjects who are superstitious. The vife of Constantine the Great was ■ailed Sophia, and a tradition which las found currency for several centuries relates that “when a Constantine and a Sophia shall once more reign in Hellas, Constantinople will lielong to the Hellenes.” The first part of the prophecy has been fulfilled, since the name of the new Queen of Greece happens to be Sophia. It is interesting to remember that at one time the Crown of Greece was going i-begging. After the country had thrown off the Turkish yoke, a President was installed, but he soon fell beneath the knife of an assassin. Then Otho of Bavaria was chosen King, and after a stormy reign he dedicated. The Greeks looked to Britain for assistance, and offered their Crown to the Duke of Edinburgh and the Earl of Derby, who both refused it. It was common talk it the time that Mr Gladstone “could have had it by the lifting of an eyelid.” Finally a Danish prince, a brother of Queen Alexandra, was persuaded to go to Athens.