PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 4 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

iK •■■■ ' i The death of Mr Alfred Austin, | tho poet laureate, is announced from London.

I Sir J. Henniter Heaton and las ■ family have arrived at Fremantle by the Melina.

V 1 Sir Henry Pember, Unionist M.F. lor Wandsworth, has resigned owing ;to ill-health, says a London cable.

T. S. Hester, of Christchurch, on Saturday on superannuation from the Post and Telegraph DepaitHoent after forty-six years’ service.

The Rev. A. W. C. Stace, of Sodden, has been appointed vicar of the parish of Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay, in the diocese of Waiapu,

The Hon. W. Pember Reeves, late Agent-General for New Zealand, has been re-lected a member of the Senate of London University.

Chirr, Postmistress at Toko, who has been away on her annual holiday, returned last night. Miss Keasberry, from New Plymouth, was in charge during Miss Gnrr’s absence.

Hr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, returned home on Sunday after a tour through the Dominion in connection with the campaign against Hie introduction of Bible reading into State schools.

Our Toko correspondent writes: The friends of Mrs R. Morrison will regret to learn that she is an inmate of the Stratford Hospital at the present time, having undergone a serious operation a few days ago. She is, however, progressing satisfactorily.

Th£ Anglican Bishop of Auckland, ' Dr. Croasley, is suffering from serious nervous prostration, and has been orI dered by his medical adviser to take an immediate and prolonged rest, The Bishop left on Monday,; evening for Sydney by the Maheno.

Colonel Heard has' 'held a depart-

mental inquiry into the Sutton camp ducking incident. He examined Captains Moore and Robinson, of the Defence Staff, and Lieutenant-Colonel Meara and Lieutenant Nesbit, of the ; Fourth Regiment. He will report to I;;

The death has occurerd at Invercar- ' gill of Mr Robert F. Cuthbertson, aged seventy-three, a very old resident of Southland, and for many years secretary of the Southland A. and P. Association. He tired from that position owing to illheqlth and advancing age, and his end was not unexpected.

The death of. Mr Charles Collins, at the age of is, announced from Palmerston North. Deceased, who was chairman of the Kairanga County Council, arrived in New Zealand in 1841, and settled at Manawatu 35 years ago. He had a long and honorable connection with local bodies, states the Press Association wire.

Sir Curtis Bow Street (London) Magistrate, was taken ill while leaving the platform, after a Mansion House meeting. He collapsed and died in a few minutes. The late Sir Curtis Bennett dreaded the suffragettes, a cablegram today. He told his solicitor, while walking at the seaside last week, that one of two women seized him and endea- ■ voured to throw him over the cliffs. They both fled.

-• Captain W. G. Bentley, of Sydney, has been appointed by tho Auckland I Exhibition musical committee to act |as judge of band selections and marches, subject to the approval of the North Island Brass Band Executive, at the Exhibition band contests. (Messrs J. Crichton, of Wanganui, and Herr Wielaert, of Auckland, were appointed band solo judges. Mr James D. Hunter, of Dunedin, was deputed to supervise the arrangements in connection with the band contest.

Mr George Mackenzie, one of the earliest pioneers of Otago, died at Queenstown op Sunday night, at the Ibge of seventy-three years. He land-

Kd at Dunedin in 1856, and for over %rty years was engaged in surveying work in Otago and Southland. He left a widow and an only son, Mr Andrew Mackenzie, Wellington director of Laughland, Mackay and Co., Lt<l., London. The Hon. T. Mackenzie (the High Commissioner) and Mr J. Mackenzie (Surveyor-General) are cousins of the deceased.