PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram records the A death of Michael Maybrick, musical composer.

The death is reported in London ol Mr William Knox, formerly a member of the Federal House.

The death of the Rev. T. E. Clouston, a prominent Presbyterian Mims- . ter, is announced from Sydney.

Sir J. Walton, a member of the Parliamentary Commission, arrived at Fremantle by the Mooltan yestei*May.

Mr Alfred Barry and Mr Harrison Allen, of Sydney, will act as adjudicators at the Twelfth Annual Musical Festival, in Dunedin.

The funeral of the Rev. Mr Tinsley, a veteran Methodist minister of 45 years’ service, took place at Levin yesterday. His widow, who survived him only two days, was buried in A the same grave.

Rev. S. Hungerford, one of Armidale’s (N.S.W.) first Church of England clergyman, and now a resident of Mosman, Sydney, celebrated his 88th birthday-on August 12. Despite his advanced years, the venerable minister is still vigorous.

An old resident of New Zealand, Mrs Maraanne Grant, died at Seatoun on Monday at the age of eighty-two. The deceased arrived at Lyttelton in 1867 in the Melita,, a ship commanded by her husband, Captain Charles J. S. Grant.

A family gathering at J emuka on

Monday night included five' genem- * 'turns, the great-great-grand-parent being Mrs Ann Gow, of Dunedin. She was celebrating her ninety-ninth birthday, and was visiting a daughter of seventy.—P.A.

Princess Indra, ,daughter of the Gaekwar of Baroda, whose marriage yesterday was recorded, first went through the ceremony of accepting

the Brahmins’ creed. She was mar-

ried at the registrar’s office, and then, according to the Brahmin’s style, i For the first portion of the ceremony

she was dressed in European style, ¥' and last of all participated in native costume. —(Times —Sydney Sun Cable).

Mr C. Jackson, who is to bo married to-morrow, was heartily congratulated at supper after the crihbage match last night, the two captains, Messrs W. J. Morrison and J. W. Jones, offering felicitations on behalf of their respective teams. Mr Jackson returned thanks, and assured those ‘present that he would still ho found in the cribbage team next winter.

The Queen of Sweden is one of the several Royal consorts bearing the name of Victoria either as a first name or among others received at their baptism. The German Empress signs “Augusta Victoria,” and the Queen of-Spain is “Victoria Eugenie.” Our own Queen’S first Christian name

is Victoria, but her Majesty has always , been known by her second , name, ' M&ry. Victoria is also among the names of the Czarina*

Mr Henry Ward Beecher, the centenary of whoso birth is being celebrated,, had a poor verbal memory, says the British Weekly. On one occasion he gave a notice in his chinch thus:—“ln addition to the notices just read I desire to say that I shall be absent next Sabbath, and that this pulpit will be occupied by—ah—by—ah—the—Rev.—(he became much flushed and confused). I will not bo here next Sabbath, and, as I was trying to *say, the preacher will be—ah why, I know him—you all know him—why, he married my daughter! Oh, I know—‘Sam’ will preach next Sabbath. Let us praise God by singing the—the hymn.” He had no difficulty in remembering the family name, “Sam,” but Rev. Samuel Scoville was too much for him.

Mr Samuel Stevens Sands, eldest son of Mrs W. K. Vanderbilt, sen-., by her first marriage, who was aged twenty-nine, was killed near Westhampton, Lond Island (says the Daily Mail New York correspondent), when -a motor car which he was driving at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour skidded and overturned. The young millionaire, who was on his way to meet his wife and child had a-leg cut off and was badly burned. MiSands’ brother Winthrop was killed in the same manner in I* ranee in July, 1908, hi« motor car striking a tree and over-turning when travelling at sixty miles an hour. Mr Winthrop Sands was also badly burned. Mr Sands’ father was killed in a hunting X. accident in 1899. His mother married twice afterwards —to Mr Lewis M. A. Rutherford and to Mr W. K. Vanderbilt in 1903.

The wedding, took place on August 20th at St. David’s Church, Khyber Pass, Auckland, of Miss Lena Morrison (lately resident of Toko, Taranaki) to Mr Robert Hunter Irwin, of Southland. The ceremony wagfperformed by the Rev. J. Saunders. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr D. Morrison, wore a handsome handworked gown of white ninon, and her bridal veil was fastened with a cluster of orange blossoms, and she carried a lovely shower bouquet of flowers, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridesmaid was Miss Edie Mills, who wou a pretty cream dress and can icd a lovely shower bouquet of flowers. The bridegroom was attended by Mr Arthur Morrison’. In the evening a dance was held in the- Masonic Hall, and dancing was kept up until next morning. The happy couple left by train en route to Invercargill, which will bo their future home.