PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 9 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Prince of Wales will visit Germany on the first of July for a prolonged stay, states a London cablegram.

-Mr Noel W. Jennings, who recently left the staff of the Stratford “Post’’ to join the “Taranaki Daily News,’’ has accepted a position on the staff of “The Press,” Christchurch.

Mr E. F. Hemingway, of Patea, has, it is stated, been offered the position of general secretary for the Reform party in New Zealand. Mr C. P. Lindergreen is the organiser for the party.

The sudden death last night at New Plymouth is announced of Mr Richard Ching, who was one of the Otago goldfields pioneers, afterwards going to tho West Coast, whence he went to Dunsandel (Canterbury.) Subsequently he went storekeeping at Opunake, and when the Native lands were opened up he took up 600 acres, which he farmed until recently, when he retired to New Plymouth.—P.A.

Lady McCormick, of Sydney, is a pasesnger by the Marama en route to Vancouver. The news of her husband’s knighthood was conveyed to Lady McCormick by wireless, after the departure of tho Marama from Sydney, and the event created much topical interest among the saloon passengers. Sir Alexander McCormick, who is lecturer to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, was among those who participated in the customary honors associated with the King s Birthday.

I Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., who returned to Christchurch on Tuesday, will bo occupied for some time (says the Lyttelton Times) writing his work on “The Vegetation of,New Zealand,” which will be published in Germany, and will form part of an important series dealing with the vegetation of the world. While travelling as a member of the Forestry Commission through the Dominion during the past few months he obtained much additional information which will be available for the work.

The death of Mrs Evans and the -return to England of Commander Evans is referred to by the corespondent of the Wellington Post as follows ;i—The home-coming was quite private and informal. Lady Scott, with true womanly sympathy, made a special journey to Charing Cross to greet Commander Evans,- and to offer to him in his hour of sorrow a word of comfort and a welcome. The meeting between the widow and the widower was a touching scene. The illness which robbed Commander. Evans of, his wife was tragically brief. Mrs Evans was first taken ill on the 14th of April, and was attended by the Otranto’s doctor and a lady specialist who was travelling, .on, the liner.,. On the loth a severe operation was performed. When Naples was reached on Thursday, Mrs Evans was conscious, but at half-past two on Friday morning she became worse* and sank gradually, death occurring about midnight on the 18th. Tho funeral took place at Toulon, the officers of tho Otranto acting as hearers, and the mourners included Miss Ada Stringer (Christchurch), aunt of Mrs Evans, who had been in Cairo for a month with her sister, Mrs Scott Cairns.

Mrs Thomas Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie went to Scotland' to be present at the marriage of Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie and Miss Flora Honor Macdonald, daughter of the Rev. James Alexander Macdonald, late of Calcutta (writes the Post’s London correspondent). The ceremony took place in Restalrig Parish Church. The bride was married in a travelling costume, an'd a little girl strewed primroses in the path of bride and bridegroom as they left the kirk. It is recorded that following the service, which was attended by a crowded congregation, the bride, leaning on her husband’s arm, walked from the church porch to the grave of her grandparents, a few yards from the church building, and laid her bouquet upon it. The grandfather whose memory she thus honored was the Rev. James Alexander Macdonald, “of the family of Castleton on Sleat,” who for sixty years was a Wesleyan minister. After laying do,wn her bouquet, the bride walked with her husband to hen carriage along the churchyard path, already strewn with primroses. As previously mentioned, New Zealand is to be their home.