PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 56, 11 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

The estate of Lieutenant Bowers, of the Antarctic party, has been sworn at £219. —London cable.

The partnership hitherto existing Between Drs. Paget and Cameron has been dissolved by mutual consent.

The Hon. 0. Samuel and Mrs Samuel (New Plymouth) will leave on an extended tour of India and the East in Dclc labor next.

Mr A. Hodgen, of Rotorua, has been appointed postmaster at Awakino, in succession to Mr W. H. Grenfell, who has been transferred to Gisborne.

The body of the late Mr J. C. M illiamsou will shortly be removed to America, and probably will be interred in deceased’s parents’ grave at Chicago.—London cable.

One of the oldest settlors in Otago, Mr Antonio Joseph, died at laieri Mouth yesterday. Deceased was about 861 years of age, and arrived in the American whaler favourite in 1841.

Another of the old pioneers passed away in Wellington on Wednesday, in the person of Mr Janies Barnard, who has been a resident of Wellington for forty-four years. He came of an old naval family, and always took an interest in marine matters.

Captain Hewitt, R.N., for many yearn a resident of Palmerston, died suddenly yesterday. / He was the po«I gessor of the Baltic medal and had taken a prominent part for many yeai s in Anglican Synod matters. He was also an earnest promoter of scientific research, and a well-known philanthropist.

Mr Lloyd George 'will never die from ennui (states the London Chronicle). The Suffragettes will see to that. But it is interesting to recall how his life nearly ended abruptly when he was a year old. He was seized with croup one winter’s night at Haverfordwest, where his parents lived, and Jus mother had to hurry through the snow to find a doctor. He arrived when the baby was almost at its last gasp, and barely succeeded in pulling him through the attack. Many years late, at Cardiff the same doctor cam© up to the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer after a meeting and told him of the incident, adding that as he went home that winter’s night he had wondered whether it had been really worth while to save the baby’s life, since there was no prospect before the baby but the life of an agricultural laborer.