PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 28, 3 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

It is officially asserted that ex-King Manoel and his. wife are coming to England at an early date.—(Cable).

The estate of the late James Cas*«ius Williams has been sworn at £193,038, states a Sydney cablegram.

Sir Rufus Isaacs denies theramor of bis appoitment to a Justiceship, states, a London cablegram.

On Tuesday, before His Honor Mr .Justice Edwards, probate of the last will and testament of William Alfred Fieldes, deceased, was, on the motion of Mr Cecil Wright, solicitor, granted to Mabel Martha Fieldes, the executrix therein named.

Mr Cecil Malthus, M.A., has been selected a Canterbury nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship. Mr Malthus had a brilliant scholastic career, and is a well-known long dis- . tance runner.

Captain Seddon, who .recently returned to the Dominion after passing high examinations in administration and economics, and was appointed to take charge of No 2 (Hauraki) area, v Tias, it is understood, i tendered his resignation and returned to Wellington.

The death of Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbutlmot, Bt., is announced from London. Ho was- recently before the public eye through running a race of 100yds with Captain Black, the result of a match arranged 20 vears ago when both were lieutenants on the Warsprite on the Pacific Station. Captain Black won by one yard in 12 l-osec.

Lord Lincolnshire, better known as Lord Cafrington, formerly Governor of New South Wales, tells a . story against himself. He has long been noted for his genial and anecdotal eloquence, but the story suggests that this was not one of his accomplishments in the earlier days of his Governorship in New South Wales. One of his first duties on going out to the colony as successor to a long line of Demosthenic predecessors was to acknowledge an address of welcome. To Ms own thinking Lord Carrington (as he then was) spoke very well—at all events, with a brevity which, as he afterwards learned, had never been approached by any previous Governor.. Brevity, however, may be "misunderstood." As the new Governor sat down, the apphfuse rose and fell with gratifying persistency for a time, till in one- Of'the lulls there suddenly boomed ouT in J the voice df one of the oldest of his Excellency's Ministers (a politician wh6 ? had suffered under many Governors) this heartfelt burst of confidence, intended s6lely' f6r'the; ear of a neighbour: "Thank heaven, they've sent us a mute for a change!"