PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The impending betrothal of Princess Elizabeth of Roumama to the Crown prince of Greece is denied.—(Athens cablegram). Mr Arthur Hollis, of the staff of Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co., has "been appointed secretary of the NewZealand Rugby Union, in place of Mr J. D. Avery, who has resigned.

.-Miss M. E. Eraddon (Mrs J. Maxell) the famous novelist, who is now 75 years old, is engaged in writing her 75th novel-states a Times-Sun special cable. . - •

Mr C. F. Hill, stationmaster at Hawera, is resigning from the service in order to enter into private business, • as from the end of the present month, says the Star. Mr Hill has been 30 "years in the department, 18 pf which have been spent in Hawera, in two different periods.

The oldest minister of the Gospel in the British Isles is probably the ,< ! Bev. Evans Edwards, of. Torquay, who is still hale and hearty, although in his ninetj-ninth year. He was actively engaged in the pastorate unti} a few years ago, and still attends 1 service. ' 'i

/Mr J. R. L. Stanford, who has been spending a few days with Mr W. J. Poison, Mangawhero, returns

to Stratford this evening. He is much inproved in health, and on Thursday will leave for a month's holiday in Australia,.

The death occurred to-day of Mrs

Lavinia Taylor, who had been a resi- ?- dent of Stratford for between twenty and thirty years. She was married twice, her second husband predeceasing her by about three years. She is survived by three children—Mr Welter Brown (Stratford), Mr Alfred Brown (Wellington), and Mrs R. * Pine ■ (Inglewood). The interment * takes place on Wednesday.

' " The death took plajce.at the Pariroa pa on Thursday of one of* the oldest natives in the province, if not in the Dominion (says the Patea Press). The decoded, who was said to be 104 years of age, was known as Takaewa, and was famous as being the mother of Tutangi Waionui, well -nown as the chief scottt of the fighting, Mhief Titokowaru in the early 60's. The deceased lady was born in the Patea district, and lived for theigreatet portion .of her life at the Otaiai pa>on the Patea river. tfi-c '-<'[.' «: .: .: >{■ .:-

■'»•] ■■■>■■ M tt. f';:!,: .;:' The funeral of, SLr G.. 8.. Njkiolls,, who was organiser, of ttye Canterbury Ko-license League, and who died from injuries suffered, in, very numerously,^attend,edj in". Ohrjsichurch yesterday,, the, procession being over a mile in length. In addition to a large number of vehicles, there was a big muster.qf^members of Nolicense leagues, temperance societies, and bands of hope. The scene at the graveside, where the service was "conducted by the Rew*Al. fiawfSOU, -»f Wellington, was very imprejsisve,—„ P.A. . * Iseoijas "i-a :j

The Marquis of Ripon is one of the few holders of that rank who,; is without an heir;,,.TJie pthers the Marquis of Breadalbane and »the Marquis of Clanri,carde; but in the case of the former his brother will sucr oee<%fto the earldom and other Scottish titles, and in that of the wellknown Irish peer his cousin will inherit the earldom of Clanricarde, the two marquisates becoming extinct with the death of their present holders. The Marquis of Ripon, however, has no relatives to whom his titles can descend, and not only the marquisate conferred upon his father for his work on the. Commission which settled the Alabama claims, but the earldom of Ripon and viscounty of Goderich given to his grandfather, the noted statesman, and the earldqm of De Grey and the barony of. Grantham, as well as a baronetcy, will come to an end with the life of the present holder.