PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 59, 15 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs A. W. Budge returnee! to Stratford this morning

Mr W. P. Kirkwood, Mayor oi Stratford, returned last night from a visit to Auckland.

Mr George Ormsby has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, Births and Deaths at Kapongft.

Air G. T. James, lately ’ on the fc(a fr of the Stratford Post Office, left this morning to take up the position of postmaster at Papakura, near Auckland.

The many friends of Mr J. H. Burgess, who has for some time been an inmate of the Stratford Hospital, suffering from a fractured skull, will be pleased to learn that he is well enough to leave the institution on Wednesday.

The death occurred at Invercargill on Saturday of Mr John Robert Mills, a well-known business man at Riverton, and a very old resident of Southland.

Mr W. H. H. Young’s son Duncan was unfortunate enough to again break his ' collar-bone while playing this morning. This is the fourth time a similar mishap has occurred within a few months.

The friends of Mrs Andrew Scott will regret to hear of her death, which took place at her residence, Regan Street, to-day at the ago of 70. The funeral will leave at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday for the place of interment, the Kopuatama Cemetery.

A quiet wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church at 8 o clock this morning, the contracting parties being Mr David H. Toms, well known in railway circles, and Miss H. R. Bonuor, whose family is well known in the district. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr Pattison. Mr and Mrs Toms left by the mail to spend the honeymoon in Rotorua.

f Mr Fred Crossley, secretary of the Eltham Sports and Pastimes Club, was the recipient of a case of pipes and tobacco pouch from the members on Saturday evening. The Argus states that the presentation was made by Mr J. Heslop, president of the club, who expressed appreciation of the good work Mr Crossley had done for the Club and the untiring energy he had displayed in its interests. Sir Charles Burdett and Messrs Bennett. ' Wade. Poynter and Ford also referred eulbgi'stically to the'time and energy Mr Crossley had devoted’ to the affairs of the Club, and the recipient suitably responded.

The trousseau .-of Princess Victoria Luise is said to have cost £IO,OOO. The Empress, on whom the responsibility for all the arrangements lay, wished the trousseau to be simple. On the other hand, the Kaiser wished that everything connected with tho man iage of his favorite child should be magnificent. It must not be foi gotten, too, that Princess Victoria Lnise married one of 'the weal■ hi ,:, st Princes of Germany, for Prince Ernest Augustus is heir to at least £5,000,000’ The Princess’s wedding gown was made Under the control of a French lady, but that is the only Erench part about the trousseau. There are twenty-five gowns and tailormade suits, not to speak of a considerable number of blouses and cloaks. All these dresses have been made either in Berlin or Frankfort. The order for the Princess’s lingerie was divided among the eight leading firms of Germany. It is extremely elaborate, and includes ten dozen sets of every article. The Princess has 20 hats, all made in Berlin and Dresden, after the latest Paris models.

Mr G. D. Hamerton, an old settler, died at Patea on Sunday, at the age of 70 years. Mr Hamerton was the son of the late Mr Holden Hamerton, solicitor, and was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1843, arriving in the Dominion -in the ship Cashmere some 14 years later. Mr Hamerton entered the office of Mr Arthur St an dish, of New Plymouth, where he practised his profession for some years, finally taking up his residence in Patea some 32 years ago, where he resided ever since. He married in 1873 Miss M. M. Glodhill, daughter of the late Mr Francis Gledhill, of New Plymouth, who represented Taranaki in the first General Assembly held in Auckland. Besides Mrs Hamerton, the deceased leaves behind him a family of four sons, Messrs Frank, Lawrence and Reginald Hamerton, of Tututawa, and Eustace Hamerton (Patea), and three daughters, Misses R. and M. Hamerton (Patea) and Mrs Graham, Mangaweka.