PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev. A. Smith has been elected Moderator of tbc New South Wales Presbyterian Assembly.

Mr J. H. Cunson has been re-elect-: ed chairman of the Auckland Harbor i Board for the third term.

The Duchess of Connaught passed

a fair night, and shows a slight improvement.—London cable.

Sir J. Carroll, who is an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington, suffering from typhoid fever, is making a slow recovery.

The deaths of three old and esteemed residents of Hokitika are reported Messrs Reginald Fane, 83 years; John Eli, 77 years of age; and John Peake, aged 73 years.

Mr F. Pirani, chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, is enjoying a rest at Rotorua. He is undergoing treatment at the baths, and expects to be absent from Feilcling for about a fortnight.

Hon. A. L. Herdman left for Auckland by the Main Trunk line yesterday. While in Auckland Mr Herdman will formally open the new Public Trust Office, and will inspect the Auckland and New Plymouth piisons prior to his return to Wellington. During his visit to New Plymouth, it is understood that Mr Herdman will be entertained by the local LawSociety.

Lieutenant-colonel Fisher, who has been filling the position of chief secretary to the Salvation Army in New Zealand during the past year, has received instructions to proceed to London to take up a position on the headquarters emigration scheme. Colonel Fisher left Wellington for the south on Monday, en route to Melbourne.

Canon Greenside, of Melling "Vicarage,' Carnforth, Lancashire, who died on January 28, aged ninety-one, left £25,054. He left to “my valued housekeeper,” Agnes Marshall, and lier*sister, Mary Newton, use for life, rent free, of two houses, which they are to keep! scrupulously neat and orderly, and are not to erect any pigsty or other addition. Since 1697 there have been only six vicars of Melling. Two previous vicars, John Tatham, and his son, held the living for 102 years between them. Canon Greenside was vicar for fifty-eight years.

Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is reported to be seriously ill at Cleveland, Ohio. She is suffering from pneumonia, her illness being due to overwork. Commander Eva Booth is the second youngest daughter of the late General Booth. She has successfully commanded the Army forces in America for many years, and cinder her able administration striking progress has been made. She is recognised as the greatest woman orator in the Army, and by many outside authorities she is believed to be the greatest in the world.

Mrs R. J. Seddon, who is at present on a visit to Auckland, on Tuesday morning, accompanied by the chairman of the Education Board (Mr G. J. Garland) paid a visit to the Seddon Memorial College, in Wellesley Street. Amongst other things pointed out to Mrs Seddon was a bust, in marble, of the late Prime Minister, a replica, presented by Mrs Seddon herself to the college, and a very fine drawing, in crayons,' purchased by the Board. The pictures are hung on either side of the main entrance, and the marble bust is being mounted on a granite stand. Mrs Seddon expressed to the chairman her great appreciation' of what the Board was doing to perpetuate the memory of her late husband.

As an example of the way the technological chemist is disturbing with his discoveries the equilibrum of the world’s markets, Professor Easterfield, in his inaugural address as President of the Wellington Philosophical Society, last week cited the case of tallow, an important article of export from Australia and New Zealand, quoted at present at £4O a ton. The chemist had taken various cheaper oils, such as cotton seed oil, quoted at about £2O a ton, and turned them into fine tallow by a very simple process—merely by introducing about 2 per cent, of finely divided nickel and passing heated commercial hydrogen through it. Only a very small quantity of hydrogen was required, and the nickel acted simply as a “catalyst” or “hustler,” hastening the process of transmutation. Tie result was the manufacture of the finest tallow, which could lie sold at £3O a ton thus undercutting one of our principle articles of export.