PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 67, 24 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Prince Arthur of Connaught has taken a house in York, where ho will live after his marriage to the Duchess of Fife in October.— Sydney Sun special.

The undermentioned have been airpointed Commissioners for the following school districts;Tututawa, W. G. Simpson and ». Brickoll; Marco, T. Davis and N. Jamieson ; Mohakau, W. K. Johas and J. Stockley; Mangaehu, J. B, Norris.

Mr Fraser, stationmaster at Waiouru, has been transferred to Eltham in succession to Mr Curtis, who ha>« been promoted to be stationmaster at Aramoho,

Mr A. Stewart, who leaves in about a week for'Tariki, is to be tendered a send-off this evening by the residents of Nash Road and the vicinity.

The executive of the South Island Band Association has appointed Mr E .Sutton, of Glasgow, judge of the Invercargill contest. Mr Sutton will judge the Ballarat contest.—Christchurch P.A.

\ The death of Mr Francis Narby, one of the earliest settlers on Banks Peninsula, is reported from Christchurch. Mr Narby was born in 1829 in Rouen, France, and came to New Zealand twenty years later. After living at Akaroa for five years', he went across to the goldfields of Australia and Tasmania, but soon afterwards he returned to New Zealand and settled down in Long Bay, Banks Peninsula.

Mr W. F. Simpson, the well-known long-distance runner, died at Christchurch on Sunday, at the age of 37. Mr Simpson was guard on the Mount Somers railway. He had a long and brilliant career on the amateur lacing track. In 1901, at Auckland, he put up an Australasian record, 1-lmin. 49sec. for the three miles flat race. Some years ago, with G. W. Smith, of Auckland, he represented New Zealand in England.

Mr Eric Penwarden, who has been over four years at the Mangorei Dairy Company as butter-maker, and who has just resigned in order to take up the position of manager of the Oakura Dairy Factory, was entertained by the suppliers at a social in the Kent Road schoolroom and presented by Mr Arthur Mqrton, chairman of directors, on behalf of the supplieis and staff, with a silver watch, suitably inscribed, gnd a ( silver-mpunted ban brush. He takes up his new position, the beginning of next month.

The Dowager Empress of Russia has always had a great idea of the decorative in regard to her personal attendants. When her husband, the late Czar, was on the throne she bad a bodyguard which made a brilliant pageant on great occasions. ; The only guard, h she, now retains is the giant Cossack ,of six feet four in his stockings f who, accompanies Her Majesty On uny official occasion lie wears a magnificent white and gold uniform, and stands behind the Empress’s chair when she is at table. . t

M. Antoine do Werner’s memoirs have recently been published, and among them are to be found many in'teresting recollections of he eminent personages with w’hom the famous painter came into contact. During the Franco-Prussian war he was on the staff of the Crown Prince, and when installed in the headquarters of Versailles came into dose contact with Bismarck, who had a fund of jovial, if somewhat brutal conversation. After an interview with Jules Favre, the Iron Chancellor was asked what ho thought of the French Advocate-Min-ister. “We got on very well,” said Bismarck, “from the very start, because he has such big feet that he looks more like a German than a Frenchman.”

President Woodrow Wilson has astounded Washington society by the choice of his church home. Instead of linking himself, as was anticipated, with one of the .fashionable Presbyterian churches in the capital city, he has taken a family pew in a humble and obscure little church called “Central Presbyterian Church,” in an out-of-the-way neighbourhood in the northwest quarter. His pastor, Bov. James H. Taylor, has heretofore been little known to the public. On his hrsfSunday in Washington, President Wilson was expected to worship at New York Avenue Church, and the building was crowded and the streets thronged with a curious crowd. But the President did not “show up”—he was far away at tbe Central Presbyterian Church,, where his coming was unknown even to the minister.