PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Milo Pavlova, the Russian dansouso, tours the United States in October, and will probably go to Australia in 1911.—(Cable).

Captain William Williams, aged 77, an old resident of Tauranga, died yesterday afternoon. Deceased ran a trading cutter between Auckland and Tauranga at the time of the Maori war.—P.A.

Eield-Mtrsluul Wood was riding near Harrow in Middlesex, when a motor frightened his horse, which jumped a hedge, clearing the barbed wire, and then somersaulted. 1 ieldMarshall Wood sustained slight concussion of the brain, but is progressing in a satisfactory manner.—London cable.

A reception was held at the residence of the brides’ parents (Mr and Mrs J. A. Leyden) Toko, last Tuesday afternoon after the wedding ceremony of Mr and Mrs JaCk Cliarteris, many guests being present, after which the young couple left 'lor their new home at Taihape by the south train, quite a gathering of friends seeing them off. In our account ol the wedding ceremony it was omitted to mention that the bride was given away by her father, Mr J. A. Leydon.

Archdeacon Regg, officiating at the opening of the new rectory at Gosford (N.S.W.) on September 9, spoke of the indebtedness of the Empire to its parsonages. Fifty-six per cent, of the lives contained in the “Dictionary of National, Biography” were, ha said, the lives of sons of the parsonage. Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Moore, General Wolfe, Warren Hastings, and Cecil Rhodes were all sons of, the parsonage. Among poet's the parsonage had produced Cowper, Coleridge, Oliver Goldsmith, Heber, Keble, Montgomery, Young, and Lord Tennyson; among historians and prose writers were Matthew Arnold, Addison, Hallam, Kingsley, Macaulay, Thackeray, Swift, and Sterne; among architects Sir Christopher Wren; among artists Sir Joshua Reynolds; among scientists Wollaston, Playfair, and Sir David Brewster; among. physicians Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Charles Bell, and Sir William •Tenner; and, to come nearer homo, Sir Samuel Griffith, Mr Justice Rich, the Archbishops of Sydney nd Melbourne, and their own bishop, the Bishop, of Newcastle, might he added to the list.