PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 28 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

P;',» The King and Royalties farewelled President Poincare at Victoria station, Liverpool. The Duke of Sutherland is dead.— London cablegram. General Sir Archibald Hunter has resigned the Governorship of Gibraltar, The death of the Rev. Sir Jas. Cameron Lees is announced by Londo i cablegram. If Mr Athol Meredith is, in the latest Gazette, appointed postmaster and telephonist at Strathmore. In the latest Gazette the promotion of Lieut. Lampen (temporary Captain) to the rank of Captain is announced. Pierpont Morgan’s European estate bhs been sworn at three millions, in addition to objects of art valued at two and a half millions. Mr A. Coleman, clerk lo the Whangamomona County Council, was, at Wednesday’s meeting, granted leave of absence owing to the ill-health of Mrs Coleman.

Arthur Bullock, of the staff of the Auckland Star, whs unanimously elected chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Mr F. M. Hickey, of the Press Association staff, was elected deputy-chairman.

Mr W. M. Bayly, manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, ac companied by Mrs Bayly, left last night fdr Auckland, en route to Sydney, where a holiday of about a month’s duration will be spent.

Dr. Kalenburg, late of Guys Hospital (London), and recently of Gisborne, was last evening appointed medical superintendant of the Gisborne Hospital, at a salary f £SOO, subject to the confirmation of Dr \ alintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals. Ihere were twelve applicants.

; The death of Sir Arthur Guinness leaves only one nlember in the House of Representatives who sat in the Provincial Council, and that is the Hon. 0, H. Mills, who was a member ot the Marlborough Provincial Council until 1876—When they were abolished —and the Counties’ Act came into force throughout New Zealand.

Mr T. D. 0- McKenzie, assistant

master of the Gonville School, Wanganui, has tftien appointed in charge of the Sanded School, and'his plade at .Gonville will W by M*’ W. Wil- ' liams, one of’ the assistants of the Hawera School, arid formerly connect- * ed with thb W'anghmxi' Distrist' High School. Mr W. P. Kirkwood, president, was last night appointed the Strattord Acclimatisation Societys’ delegate to the annual conference of societies, which 'is to be held about the mid die. of August. Mr Stanford, in proopsing that Mr as delegate, Said attending the conference took a good deal of time, and the thanks of the Society were due to Mr Kirkwood for his services iti this respect in past years. Mr Charles Robinson, chief of Bellamy’s, who returned by the Tahiti * from San Francisco on Thursday, told a New Zealand Times representative on Friday evening that one of the most pleasant and memorable incidents in his tour abroad was a private interview, lasting about a quarter of an hour, with his Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. Mr Robinson had previously met King George, when, as Prince of Wales, he visited New Zealand with the Ophir in 1901. “He remembered me at once,’’ said Mr Robinson, “and chatted in a most affable way of New Zealand, showing a very lively interest in the people and affairs of the Dominion. His Majesty looked remarkably well, and his manner ' throughout, as he leisurely smoked a cigar, was most charming and gracious. He asked numerous questions about New Zealand, and had very clear Recollections of the places he visited.”