PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 72, 30 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. 0. Samuel was re-elected President and Mr Newton King vicePresident at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club last night.

Mr CL W. Tayler, Eltharn, has Jjeen re-elected chairman of directors of the Xew Zealand Axemen’s Association.

The report of the King’s visit to Australia is authoratively denied, states a London cablegram.

The Very Rev. Dean Regnault, Provincial o fthe Marist Fathers, Wellington, and the Rev. Wean Power, ot Hawera, were in Stratford yesterday and were the guests of the Rev. Father Treacy.

Firemen Crossan and Davis were presented with the United Fire Brigades Association’s three-year service certificate at last night’s meeting of the Fire Brigade.

Mr J. Gunderson, who was somewhat severely injured some time ago througn being caught in the machinery at one of the Mid hirst Dairy Co’s, creameries, lias now sufficiently recovered to be able to leave the Hospital.

Obituary: A private cable has been received announcing the death of Lady Yon Haast at Rome on Monday last. Deceased was the widow of the late Sir Julius Von Haast.—P.A.

A pleasant function took place at the Y.M.C.A. final campaign rally in Milton i last week in the form of presentations to Mr and Mrs Jameson, as tokens of esteem on their marriage and in recognition of Mr Jameson’s work during the campaign. The national secretary was presented with a Bauce travelling rug, and Mrs Jameson was the recipient of a pair of blankets of local manufacture.