PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tho King has invested Lord Islingou with the Grand Cross of St. Michael.

General Do Wet has been stricken with paralysis, states a cablegram from Capetown.

The London University has conferred the degree of Doetorship of Science upon Mr F. P. Worley, of Auckland.

The Duchess of Orleans, who separated from the Duke in 1912, is suing her husband for maintenance, Bays a. cablegram from Brussels.

Captain Way, a veteran of the Maori war, was found dead in his house at Tauranga on Thursday. He was seventy-one years of age.

Mr W. G. Garrard, who lately resigned from tho secretaryship of the Canterbury Rugby Union, after being nineteen years in office, on Friday night received a silver tea and coffee service from tho Canterbury footballers, in appreciation of his work.

The death occurred at Invercargill yesterday, of Robert F. Cuthbertson, accd 73, a very old resident of Southland and for many years secretary of the Southland A. and P. Association. He recently retired from that position owing to ill health and advancing age, and his end was not unexpected.

Both Grovcr Cleveland and President Woodrow Wilson were sons ol Presbyterian ministers (states th« the "Mimsey" Magazine), and thm they join that illustrious group ci Americans, ranging from John Han cock down to Bishop Potter, and in chiding Henry Clay, Henry Ware Beecher, James Russell Lowell, anc scores of others, which contradict: the tradition that the offspring ol clergymen turn out badly. In tlv case of the new President of the Unit ed States the influence of the churcr is peculiarly marked. Not only was hi' own father one of the most eloquen Prdesbyterian divines of the South but the .mistress of the White Hous' was only born and bred in the manse She is a daughter of the Rev. Ed wan Axson, who was a member of a family noted for its many preachers. Hi: mother's father, too, after whom h' was named, was a clergyman; anc so was her brother, the Rev. Dr James Woodrow, of Columbia, Soutl Carolina.

Mr and Mrs P. Keller, who lately took up their residence at Kohuratahi were honored by quite a large.number of Whanga people who went f Kohuratahi by a special train to at tend the social of welcome given b} the Kohuratahi people. The corre spondent of the Taranaki Heralt spates that the occasion was also taker advantage of by the workers to male a presentation to Mr Keller. Mr A W. McCutchan, on behalf of the work ers/ presented Mr and Mrs Kelle.' with a beautiful marble clock and s silver tray suitably inscribed as t token of the esteem in which tlu workers held Mr Keller, and wisher 1 him a successful and happy life a: a benedict. Mr McCutchan, in a fev well-chosen remarks, eulogised tlr quality of the men on the line, their good conduct, and the good feeling he tween the whole of the workers, set tiers and the officials. Mr Keller, v responding, thanked them on behalj of Mrs Keller and himself, and expressed the good feeling he alway had held towards the workers in co operating all together towards doihp their duties. The evening was speiv in dancing.