PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 12 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Bishop Crossley, of Auckland, arriv- ■ ed in Stratford yesterday, and preach-1 ed at Holy Trinity Church last night. ■ His Lordship will bo welcomed at aj social tills evening. Mr Richard Morrow, of Rahotu, a well-known settler and popular sport, died on Saturday, at the ago of 60 ( years. His death will be regretted by a host of friends throughout the province.

Mr George Pearce and Mr W. Mowbray, partners in the firm of Levin and Co., merchants, Wellington, arrived in Sydney by the Ulimara on her last trip from New Zealand. They joined the P. and 0. liner Malwa en route to England, on a holiday trip. Their journey was interrupted a few weeks ago by the sudden death of Mrs Pearce in Sydney, which necessitated a return to New Zealand.

John Galvin (53), a retired hotelkeeper, living at St. Kilda, Melbourne, called on a city firm of wine and spirit merchants on Thursday, for the purpose of making a new will, and he had just taken tho pen in his hand to sign the document when he collapsed, dying shortly afterwards. It is stated that Galvin had no relatives in Australia, and when he made a will some time ago, he willed his property to friends and relatives living in Ireland. He left the document with a wine and spirit firm, as he did not believe in solicitors! Recently be announced his intention of altering tho will, an witnesses were procured, and the will redrafted to his wishes, requiring only his signature to make it complete, but his sudden death leaves the old will undisturbed.

Mr Clifton Bingham, the writer of lyrics, died the other day at Clifton, Bristol, at the age of fifty-four. He wrote some of the most popular songs of the day, including “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” “In Old Madrid,” “Dear Hearts,” “Asthore,” “Thoughts and Tears,” “The Green Isle of Erin,” “The Dear Homeland,” “The Promise of Life.” Sir Frederick Cowen wrote much of the music to Mr Bingham’s songs, but Signor Tosti and Mr Molloy also set some of his lyrics to music. Mr Bingham was a native of Bristol, his father being a book-seller in that city. In addition to song writing he was the author of many successful stories. He wrote more than 1500 songs and innumerable Christmascard greetings in verse.

Miss Schalex, an Austrian visitor to the Dominion, in the course of her twelve years’ journalistic experience, has travelled in many countries, studied many peoples, and her impressions of New Zealanders are that they are like no other people. Everywhere she has been amazed at the democracy it , i • . of tho country and its government. “You cannot understand,” Miss Schalex said, “how strange it is to one coming from a conservative country like Austria to a land in which there are no classes but the one. Then your hospitality. That astonishes me. I came to New Zealand, quite unknown, without even a letter to anyone, and everyone I met has entertained me and helped me in my work. That would not happen in ten years in my own country. This democracy is a very living thing, if I am to judge by my own experiences,’ ’