PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12, 19 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr G. Sisley, of the Napier Post Office, has been transferred to Blenheim. The late Sir Tat ton 'Sykes bequeathed seventeen churches £SOO each, states a London cablegram. The Duchess of Connaught continues to improve in health, states a London cablegram. Mr Alex. Burt, junr., has been elected Master Plumbers’ .Representative on the Plumbers’ Registration Board. Mr H. Trimble was, on Saturday, re-elected chairman of the Moa Road Board for the fourteenth consecutive term. Captain Scott left certain securities to his mother for life, while the remainder of his property goes to his wife. The Norwegian Parliament has unanimously voted Captain Amundsen a life annuity of £324 in recognition of his great achievement in attaining the South Pole.

The widow of Petty-officer Evans, one of the members of the Scott expedition who perished in the Antarctic, has received her husband’s diary but says that she is forbidden to pub lish it until after tho lapse of twe years. Tho Bishop of Waiapu (Dr. Averill) who was to have gone to Gisborne yesterday to open Holy Trinity Church a handsome new building, just com pleted, is seriously ill at Napier wit! laryngitis, and as ho was unable tr leave Napier, tire church-opening wa' postponed.

Mr Noel W. Jennings, who liar been on the staff of the “Stratforr Evening Post” for eighteen month past, and has joined the Taranalr “Daily News,” was farewelled oi Saturday afternoon at the time-hon nred gathering “round the Stone,’ when ho was the recipient of a pre sentation as a mark of goodwill and esteem.

The Mayor of Dunedin and th chairman of the Otago Harbour Bonn this year are both natives of Dune din, as were also their immediate pre decessors in office. The “Otago Bail; Times” says:—“lt is distinctly a re markable circumstance that, whib there have been only three or fou Mayors of Dunedin and f only twe chairmen of the Harbour Board win were boi;n in this district, the coinci dence has already twice happened o natives of Dunedin occupying in tin same year the two most important public offices in the city.”

The late Richard Grylls, whose death took place at Wellington, whih undergoing an operation, was a well known and popular Taranaki hotel keeper. He kept the Oakura Hote for many years, and also had charg' )f the Red House, Taranaki, Ingle wood, Eltham, Royal, and Empire (Hawera), and Tarehu Hotel at Car terton. He was married twice, ant leaves three sons and one daughteby his first wife, whilst there is om daughter by his second wife, who sur vives him. He is also survived lr brother, Mr John Grylls, of St Auhyn street, and four sisters, Mes dames R. Jury, and Jas. Loveridgi (New Plymouth), W. Black (Waitara) and Leedom (Hastings). The latr Mrs Cottier was also a sister. Tin funeral will take place at the T‘ Henui cemetery to-morrow.

Mi ss M. E. Richmond, speaking a die Free Kindergarten Union at Wei lington, said that woman could nevei touch man in his own walk. “I don’ believe,” she said, “that when all i said and done that Mrs Pankhurs vould make as good a Prime Minis ter as Mr Asquith or Mr Balfour. Ii rou consider the pathetic want of ori •.duality in women it is quite startling Why, even our garments are invented by men. Man dictates the yen shapes of our hats, and man growl, at us for wearing such abominations Man invents the cradles for our ba hies, and their go-carts and even th< socks, and shoes for their little f6et I don’t blame man for all this— l simply admire him—but I should like to see women as a sex turning then minds to those subjects in which thei are fitted by nature to excel mansubjects to which in the main they aro still indifferent. Health, education, charitable aid. the problem of poverty, the need of individual thrift, competency, and the adequate contro l of environment are somewhat at a standstill, waiting for our sex to take them up in a serious spirit.”