PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 18, 22 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Evelyn Wood, who met with an accident while out riding, has improved, states a London cablegram.

His Excellency the Governor will pay New Plymouth an official visit either on the 14th or 16th oi next month.

Lieut. Bently, of New South Wales, has been appointed musical judge for the Auckland Exhibition band contest.

Mr T. D. Sullivan, Borough Overseer, returned on Saturday night after his annual holiday leave.

Lady Ward and Miss Eileen Ward left London by the Medina on Saturday, on their return to New Zealand. — Cable.

The Hon. T. Kelly, whose term as a member of the Legislative Council runs out this month, will, it is stated, he re-appointed by the Government.

Madame Melba has sailed for America (states a cablegram), where she will be joined by Kubelik, the famous violinist, for a hundred concerts.

Pirncess Sofia, of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who committed, suicide, is to be cremated. Bleichroeder, whom she wished to marry, will attend the ceremony, states a Berlin cablegram.

Mr J. B. Campbell, stationmaster, has resumed duty, but lias not yet fully recovered from the effects of his recent illness.

The funeral of the late Jt£arry Savage took place at Inglewood yesterday. Deceased will be well remembered by many people in Stratford where he was for some time in business as a carrier.

Mrs and Miss McAllister, of East London (South Africa), who are on a holiday tour of New Zealand, are the guests of Mr and Mrs W. J. Mewton. Miss McAllister, .who is interested in education, paid a visit to tho Stratford School to-day.

Bishop Averill, Bishop-designate of

Auckland, will pay a brief visit to t his new See in December, and during hie stay he will conduct an ordination service. The Bishop will remain in charge ofifthe Waiapu Diocese until

January, when he will complete his fourth year there, and after a holiday he will take up his duties in Auckland, probably about the middle of February.

The Rev. H." S. ' Woollcombe, who toured New Zealand some few years ago in connection with the Church of England Men's Society,' has been appointed vicar of a parish of 18,000 people in the city of Leeds by the Archbishop of York, president of the O.E.M.S. Mr Woollcombe has invited the vicar of Gisborne, Rev. L. Dawson Thomas, to go to England arid take charge of a large mission district in the parish. After consulting with Bishop Averill, the vicar has decided to remain is Gisborne. , ,

Mr T. C. Delaney, a very old resident, died at Dunedin on Saturday at the age of 90 years. The Press Association reports that he arrived in Otago in 1852, and was the first mayor Of West Harbor, filling that office several times subsequently. He was

a Customs official from 1860 till 1871 and was in the Chief Gold Receiver's department from 1861 till 1867. At one time he owned all the land on which Ravensbourne now stands, but he sold out to Proudfoot and Oliver when the survey for the DunedinPort Chalmers railway was being made.

Lord Rosebery seems to have done with the House of Lords. ' He has not been seen there the whole of this session, and has only appeared there two or three times since the passing of the Parliament Act. It is understood that he is taking great interest in scientific farming and agriculture, and is arranging for the equipment of his farms in Scotland with everything that the modern scientific agriculturalist requires. Special attention is being devoted to intensive culture and the latest methods will be employed. "Cincinnatus lias returned to his plough," his lordship was reported to have said when he was talking over his plans.

The Rev. Josh Chatwin Jones has <"just retired from the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Spalding, after serving continuously for sixty-seven years. He went to Spalding in 1846, and is now aged ninety years. "What isi the secret of living to he ninety?" he was asked recently. "Temperance —temperance in all things," was the reply. "I take all the open-air exercise I can get, and it is always early to bed with me. Remember this last above everything else if you wish to live long." The venerable pastor was also asked if he found the world bettor than it was when he was young. "Taking the whole world through," he said, "the progress has been wonderful. Look at China, for instance, or Africa. But if you ask me about this country, T am not so certain. We

have made enormous strides in mater-

ial things. The progress during the ipast fifty years has been greater than W in any corresponding period in the history of the world. But have we made as much moral improvement? I doubt it. Life has become so comparatively

<.'asy nowadays that there is nothing Mo develop character. , And here 1 part company with many of my colleagues. What is it we hear in so many of our pulpits nowadays? Social progress is good—but it is not everything. Some of our preachers seem to me to be grafting waxen apples on rotten stumps."