PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

All Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington to-day.

Mr Martin Kennedy arrived at Wellington from London on Tuesday evening.

Miss M. Tobin has been appointed temporary assistant teacher at the Stanley Road School.

Mr G. A. Fairbairn, of Melbourne, has been awarded his cricket "blue" at Cambridge University, states a London cablegram.

Mr Claude Haigh, representing the "Red Dandies," is in Stratford making arrangements for this famous combination's appearance in the Town Hall.

On one Sunday during the progresn of a big Salvation Army Congress in Cleveland, U.S.A., thirty : one churches were thrown open to visiting Army officers, among the number being some of the leading enurches of the city.

Mx C. Wood, of the Opunake Post and Telegraph Office, has been transferred to Thames, and Mr J. 13. Dilkes, of the Wellington office, has taiveu ins place.

Mr Alexander Rutherford, clerk assistant to the House of Representatives, has resigned his position owing to ill-health.

Mr S. G. Stanton, Postmaster at Stratford, asks us to correct an impression that he is leaving Stratford. The mistake may have arisen by confusing him with another Mr Stanton.

The marriage took place in Knox Church, Inglewood, of Miss Annie Florence Marshall, eldest daughter oi Mr and Mrs W. Marshall, of Inglewood, to Mr William James Simons, eldest son of Mr W. C. Simons,, oi New Plymouth. Mr Leonard Charles Harrison, second son of Mr and Mrs B. Harrison, of Matapu, and late of Opunake. was married to Miss Silena Meredith, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Meredith, of Paltnerston North, on Wednesday last. Mr E. Carlyon Eliot, late warden of the Island of TobagO, and formerly a provincial commissioner of the Gold Coast Colony, has been appointed to the vacant post of Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. Mr H. C. Cameron, Produce Commissioner to New Zealand Government, is at present on a lecturing and canvassing tour through the English provinces,for which a large amoUn! of literature was prepared to attract farmers and domestic servants. / News is to hand in Sydney that Mr Will Dyson, the Australian cartoonist and caricaturist, has secured an engagement with an American .press syndicate at £3OOO per annum. He is one of Australia's Bulletin-reared black and white artists, having started with that journal when only nineteen years| of age,, 'j '■; '{ \\ , |j r The Hastings Tribune thinks that if Sir William Hall-Jones would accept nomination to the Upper House it would be a graceful and popular act if Mr Massey were to include his name amongst the new appointments. He has a ripe judgment, wide experience, and a clean record, and men such as he is could do good work for the country. Commissioner Booth-ZTucker,, special commissioner of the Salvation Army, for India and Ceylon, was included in the latest list of Birthday Honors, receiving the Kalsar-i-Hind Medal for public service rendered in India. The Commissioner was a Judge in the Indian Civil Service until 1881, when he became a Salvationist. After having command of the Armv's work in the United States from 1896 to 1904 he 'vns appointed to the position he now holds. The name of Captain R. J. S. Sed don, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, appears in a list issued by the War Office of Army officers who have recently qualified in the seventh course of instruction at the London School of Economics. The War Office, it appears, pays the fees of the regular officers, for a note is appended stating that Captain Seddon was l permitted to attend the lectures "at his own expense." .With the burden of over sixty years' strenuous political service weighing heavily upon his shoulders, Sir Charles Tapper, the veteran Canadian statesman and ex-Premier, has returned to Britain to spend his declining davs with his daughter. He is now in his ninety-third year, and, although bent and feeble, he still maintains unimpaired all his faculties. Speaking of the future of Canada, he said that during his long life there he had seen great and wonderful developments, "but after carefully considering all the essentials that go to make up a great nation," he went on, "I verily believe that Canada's growth in the past will prove as nothing to the glory of her future."