PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lady Lyne declined a State funetftl for Sir William Lyne, reports a | SWney cablegram. ( |

JJ r P. Skoglund, Town Clerk, has j resumed duty, after having been laid j Mide for a week with /illness.

Robert Cox, one of the heroes of the North Mount Lyell disaster, and, the recipient of the Humane Society s[ ..'.lvor medal in connection therewith, is dead (states a cable rom Hobart). He supervised the despatch ofseveSpral cages full of men to the surface * Before leaving himself. He was the last man who entered the cage, and then collapsed. He never properly recovered.

Mr H. D. Broadhead, a New Zealander who, in March last, won a senior scholarship in classics at Trinity College, has won further honors. In the Classical Tripos he obtained a first class division. Mr Broadhead had thus graduated with distinction •After only two years' residence. He has- also been awarded a Jeston exhibition of £SO.

Mr Robert Smith, of Onslow Park, Hamua, and. more familiarly known throughout Wellington and Hawke's Bay districts as "Kiltie" Smith, died on Saturday morning (states a MasIterton message.) Deceased was seventy years of ■ age, and a wellknown farmer, having resided for twenty-two years at Hamua. He was at one time licensee of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, and took a leading part in public life. A widow and six sons are left, the latter being Messrs George, William, John, and Gordon Smith (of Hamua), Campbell Smith (of Martinborough), and Nireaha Smith (of Tokomaru Bay).

"Buffalo Bill," who is retiring to his rauon at Wyoming, was born in 1846. His father was killed in the "Border War" in Kansas. In 186061 William Cody (his proper name) was a pony express rider, and from 1861 a Government Scout and guide, and a member of the 7th Kansas Cavalry. Later he contracted to furnish the Kansas Pacific Eailway with all the buffalo meat required to feed the labourers engaged in construction, and in eighteen months v killed 1280 buffaloes earning the .. name of "Buffalo Bill/' by which he is best knownv Afterwards he returned to scouting, and served in the operations against the Sioux and Cheyenne. In the battle of Indiana Creek he killed Yellow Hand, the Cheyenne chief, in a i hand-to-hand fight. Colonel Cody! 1 participated in more Indian battles than any other * living mam. Since 1883 he has, beep •at the head of ''The „ Wild West '"Show." "■ '' ••' '"• '■■ "

The Kaiser ascribes some part of the prosperity of his reign to the possession of the "Hohenzollern luck." The "luck," a plain gold ring with a black stone, first appears in history when Frederick the Great received it from his dying father, with a note declar- " ■ ing that so long as it remained in the family the race would prosper. Legend affirms that one day, centuries before, when a Hohenzollern Princess was about to be confined, a large frog hopped on the bed and dropped the ring from its mouth. (Her Highness must surely have been in bed in the, rushes.) The "luck" was stolen from Frederick William 11. by his mistress, the Countess Lichenau, in 1790; hence, it is said, the 'Prussian disasters of the next few years. It was recovered in 1813, just before the great war of liberation, which re-established the fortunes of the Hohenzollerns.

A survivor of the charge of the ' Light Brigade at Balaclava died last month at Hale, Surrey, aged 89, in the person of William Ellis, who served through the whole of the Crimean War as a private in the 11th Hussars. The following are the remaining survivors of the charge:—Sir George Wombwell, 17th Lancers; Major Phillips, Bth Hussars; Alderman Kilvert, 11th Hussars; J. Mustard, 17th Lancers; J. B&tali, 4th Huesars; J. Whitehead, 4th Hussars; J. Olley, 4th Hussars; W. S. J. Fulton,'. Bth Hussars; J. Parkinson, 11th Hussars; T. Warr, 11th Hussars; G. Gibson, 13th Hussars; E. Hughes, 13th Hus«ars; and W. ,H. Pennington, Bth Hussars.

The oldest woman in Mrs Rebecca, Clark, of High Road, Wood Green—celebrated her 109th birthday last month. "I must admit I'm beginning to feel a little olCer," she said to a reporter, "bai - "•'■ not done for yet by a long way. I can still walk up the hill to the Post Office on Friday to draw my old age

pension, and I'm sure I'll go on do- ** ing it for many a year yet. I can't - speak quite as distinctly as I used to do, liut I can see and hear wonderfully well. Eat? Goodness gracious, I just think I can. I'll tell you what I'm going to have for dinner: Roa«t beef, potatoes and cauliflower, stowed fruit and custard, tea, and a big piece of hread. I never helieved in being faddy about food. Eat what you fancy, and you'll he all right."