PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 32, 8 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. and Mrs Mat-kin, of Wellington, are making a motor tour through the North Island. They'.were in Stratford yesterday and paid a visit to the Dawson's Falls Mountain House.

Sir Oscar Bayly, son of Mr P. Bayly, was married to Miss Walker, of Awatuna East at Holy Trinity Church yjsrerday. The Rev. W. A. Butler pnfnintd the ceremony.

Mr It. Morrison, formerly licensee of the Toko Junction Hotel, has taken a lease of the hotel at Renwicktown, a few miles from Blenheim.

Mr G. G. C. Helleman, city organist at Wellington, has been appointed judge of the vocal and instrumental section at the Napier competitions next Easter.—P.A.

Mr C. K. Robinson, of Stratford, has completed his examination for licensed surveyor, coming fourth in the list of eight who seeured passes. The territorial sphere over" which this examination operates, includes as far north as New Guinea, coming down to and including New Zealand in the south. For this Dominion twenty-ont students presented themselves, six; of whom gat for the first time.

Mr Robert McNab, who is carrying on further researches at Sydney in connection with New Zealand's early history, writes to a friend stating that he is in-the midst of a hunt through the Supreme Court papers and has been remarkably successful. S< far he has only touched the .paperr. from 1799 to 1814. "It is astonishing," adds Mr McNab, "how much litigation, the old. sealers had with thenemployers."

Sir Arthur Fairburn, who has been deaf and dumb from birth, tells this story .of what happened when a friend asked him to dine with him at his club. The host invited two others to meet the baronet, telling each that the guest of the evening was deaf and dumb. Calling for Sir Arthur in his brougham and arriving at the club rather late, the host found his two other guests in the smoking-room carefully talking to each other on. their fingers, each'.thinking that the other was Sir Arthur!

The late Mrs Anna Maria Keogh. relict of the late Mathias Geogh, of Dublin, and mother of Very Rev. Father Keogh, S.M., 8.A., of Hastings, was born v in Dublin in the year 1829 and arrived in New Zealand in 1905, shortly pjfterthe appointment of Father eGoghtolthe rectorship of StPatrick's College," Wellington. 'Mrs Father Keogli to thp rectorship'of ( St, the unique experience of liviiig (luring the reigns of'fTve' British 1 sovereignsGeorge IV., William JY.; Victoria, Edward VII., and King George. She is survived by two soils—Father Keogh and Mr Michael Keogh, of Wellington.

M. Emile Ollivier, who, when Premier of France, declared war on Prus sia in 1870, has died at St. Gervais-les Bains, near Annecy, at the age ,of.;88At the time of, the declaration of the war in 1870 he had been six months in power. M. Ollivier. himself.;, declared at the, opening of that disastrous campaign that he. undercook the responsibility of : war with; Prussia "with a light heart." After the first defeats of the French he was driven from power and soon afterwards retired to Italy in 1873. He twice attempted to re-enter political life in France, 'and then devoted the rest of his life to literature. His best-known work, "L'Empire Liberal," defined the policy of Napoleon lll.'s regime in which he held power. M. Ollivier's first wife, who died nearly fifty years ago, was the daughter of Liszt, the famous composer.