PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 7 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Crown Prince of Germany will shortly visit the German colonies in Africa, states a Berlin cablegram.

Mr Sid. Bernard returned to Stratford last evening, after holidaying in Auckland, and was accompanied by Nurse Diamond, sister of Mr W'M Diamond.

Mr James Hall, 8.A., senior mathcleal and science master in Palme>ston North High School has been appointed a senior master in Wellington College.

Dr. Truby King, of Dunedin, accompanied by Mrs King, will leave Wellington on Friday for London, where he will represent New Zealand at the health conference.

Mr A. G. Longworth, of Foxton, who has been appointed an instructor in the Physical Education Department, arivod in the Dominion about eighteen months ago from England, where he received his training as an instructor.

Mr J. B. Connett was re-elected chairman of the New Plymouth Harbor Board at the annual meeting today. IVJt Connett has occupied the position since 1902. He was a member of the first Board in 1875 and almost continuously since then. —P.A.

General Godley hopes to sail hy the Aorangi, via San Francisco, on June 19th if he has been able before then to transact with the Hon. James Allen all the business that will he necessary on the return of the latter from England. General Godley hopes to attend the manoeuvres at Home of the Aldershot command of tho cavalry division, and the big army manoeuvres, and has taken a return passage by the Orient line, leaving England early in November.—Press Association.

Father Bierne, who for some time past has been stationed in New Plymouth and who has been appointed to the charge of the Inglewood Parish, was presented hy the congregation of St. Joseph’s Church with a purse of sovereigns on Sunday night and with a case of pipes and tobacco pouch by the Hibernians. Both presentations were made by Mr W. I • Jennings and feelingly acknowledged by the recipient.

The Duchess of Connaught passed a faif.,flight, states a London cablegram. The Duchess is the daughter of the late i Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. She married the Duke of Connaught the> tl}ird son of Queen Victoria, in 187,9. Prince Frederick Chafes, wa,s a grandson of William ,111. .of, Prussia qt, great soldier. He commanded one of the Prussian armies in the war with Austria in 1866, and four years later earned a field-marshal’s baton in the Granco-Prussian struggle. He received the surrender of Marshal Bazaine at Metz and crushed the Army of the Loire at the battle of Le Mans.

Princess Mary, only daughter of the King and Queen, was confirmed by the: Archbishop of Canterbury at a special' service in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. The King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria, Princess Christian, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, the Duchess of Albany, Princess Alexander of Teck, the Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, and Princess Maud were present. Almost the only other guests were the Earl of Rosebery, Lord Farquhar, and Madame Bricka (former governess to the Princess). ■' Princess Mary, dressed in a simple white gown, and wearing the veil worn by the Queen at her confirraa tion, was placed slightly in front of her parents. The service opened with the hymn, “Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult,” and when the preliminary part of the service was concluded, His Grace asked the Princess: “Do you here, in the presence of God and this congregation, renew the solemn pro raise and vow that was made in your name at your baptism, ratifying and confirming the same in your own person, and acknowledging yourself bound to believe and to do all those things which your godfathers and godmothers undertook for you ” The Princess answered clearly “I do.”