PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 100, 1 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. Ryan, who has been confined to hiti home for some time by illness, is now on the road to improvement.

Mr C. King, tho Taranaki League forward, leaves for Auckland by the mail train to-night to take part in the test match.

Mr W. Birdling, of Waitara, who has heen on a visit to Australia, returned home on Friday.

Mr J. R. Flower, manager of the Rotorua branch of the Bank of Ne'.\ Zealand, has received notification that he is to be transferred to New Plymouth, taking the place of Mr J. Taylor, who (states the News) has received the managership of the Manaia branch.

The death of ex-Judgo D. C. B. Ward at the age of 86 is reported today from Dunedin per Press Association. The interment will take place at Christchurch.

The deaths of Mr Alfred Hirst, the blind philanthropist and wool export, and Dr. Tempest Anderson, the celebrated opthalmic surgeon are reported from London. Dr. Anderson died of enteric fever in the Suez Ganal while journeying homewards from the Philippines.

Messrs A. Spence and Aj Black have resigned from membership of the Stratford Bowling Club, letters to this effect being read at Saturday evening’s meeting of the Club. On the motion of Mr N. J. King it was decided that the resignations be accepted with regret, and that the Club’s appreciation of their services be put on record.

Mrs F. Cuff (nee Hartley), of Stratford, is interested in tho “Hartley millions,” and it is news to learn from private advice just received that £4,000,000 of the “millions” has been recovered from Chancery and that a further £4,000,000 is on the point of being released.

Miss Hallie M. Daggett, said to bo the first woman in the United States appointed to the position of lookout at a forest reserve station, lives in Siskiyou County, California.- She has been placed in charge of Eddy’s Gulch Lookout, situated on the peak of the Salmon Alps, 6000 ft high. Her duty is to keep a lookout for fires and report to the nearest forest station.

Mr H. Yi Braddon, the old New Zealand and New- South Wales fullback and* three-quarter back, has been re-elected president of, the Sydney Chamber of,Commerce (says the Syxh ney Refdree). i Mr Braddon is ,general manager of Messrs Dalgety and Co.

Mr Alexander Lucas, member of thy British Columbia Parliament and member of a Royal Commission on Agriculture, has arrived in Sydney after a month spent in New’ Zealand, states a cablegram to-day. Mr Lucas states that the evidence submitted to him show ed that the system of advancing money to settlers was a success.. He was very pleased with his visit to New Zealand, where he gathered a great deal of information which will be of use in framing legislation in Columbia.

'Prince Arthur of Connaught and the Duchess of Fife, whose engagement was announced recently, arc very popular in London society. During the minority of the Prince of Wales and in the absence of the Duke of Connaught in Canada and elsewhere Prince Arthur has been the chosen representative of the King on many occasions, both at home and abroad. He has undertaken important missions to most of the capitals of Europe and to several further afield. Among the most important was his journey to Japan in 1906 to invest the late Mikado with the Order of the Garter, of which he is himself a Knight. While tho King and Queen were out of the country on the occasion of the Delhi Durbar, Prince Arthur was the head of the Council of State which •represented his Majesty. He was born in 1883.

Captain Michael Carey, late commodore of the Union S.S. Company of New Zealand, died at his daughter’s residence, Flood Street, Bondi, Sydney, on Saturday, August 23, at the age of 78. Captain Carey was well and favorably known in connection with the company’s Sydney-San Francisco and Vancouver service. For a number of years he had command of the steamer Moana in that trade, bid retired from the company’s service a , few years ago. Deceased leaves three daughters—Mrs George H. Alderton, of Bondi; Mrs Norman Wooten and Mrs P, J. Devine, of Melbourne.

Tho Duchess of Fife, better known ; as Princess Alexandra of Fife, and i formerly Lady Alexandra Duff, wasj horn on May 17, 1891. She is the; elder daughter- of the late Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal (Princess Louise), King Edward’,s. eldest' daughter. On the death of her father. 1 the sixth Earl and the first Duke of Fife, in January last year, Princess Alexandra succeeded him ns Duchess of Fife in her own right, hy the special remainder contained in letters patent of 1900. She has no brothers, and her one sister (Princess Maud) i-s her; heir. She is the owner of some 200.-. 000 acres and mistress of great houses at Braernar and Banff. Like her, mother, the young Princes#? has always, hoop of a retiring disposition, and; her' happiest days have been spent in | outdoor sports at Mar Lodge rather than in London society. i