PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 13 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

B®#- <?V •■: No princess ever hud a. Rousseau elaborate than that of the r IJuclwss of Fife (states a Fimes-Syd-jiey iftin cable). It includes twentylight evening gowns, thirty-eight hats, four ermine coats, and sable, fox and /skunk, stoles and muffs. Prince Arthur of Connaught has received seven i hundred gifts, and the Duchess ol Fife eight hundred gifts, of the value |f*£lso,ooo. • His Excellency the Governor, Lord Liverpool, pays his first visit to Stiatr ford to-morrow, arriving by specia. , train from New Plymouth at 2.30 p.m. The Mayor will present an ad ' dress of welcome at the Post Offict : steps, after which the Governor will 1 be taken for a short motor ride rouno |the district. He leaves again f'o. i south at 3.45 p.m. . | Messrs G. W. D. Rogers and T. r F. O’Neill, juniors on the staff ol i Messrs Spence and Stanford, left for \Vanganui today to sit for examination for the first term in the LL.B. degree. |! if*Mr Ulysses S. Grant, sou of the famous president of the United States, and who recently visited New •Zealand, said he found it a very in ' teresting little country (states a Syd •; hey cablegram) .He could not help being struck with the great destruction Hof forests that had gone on there; it was the same here. “The time musi r - lome,” he stated, “when the land would be wanted for crops and grass ! hut don’t destroy the trees, as it Mi unnecessary.” y Mr Augustus Hamilton, director ol the Wellington Museum, died at Rus ' sell, Bay of Ish ds, yesterday after noon. Two years ago (states a WeiI lington Press Association wire), Mi V-Hamilton had a severe paralytic H stroke, from which he never thorough If- -Jy recovered. Death resulted from another attack.' Mr Hamilton was bom in 1854 in Dorsetshire, England. ‘ and arrived in New Zealand in 1876 and became ( director of the Museum in 1893. Deceased leaves a widow, eon .daughter. I Mr Julius Knight, the well-known actor with the J.C.W. Comedy Com- ' pany, appearing at the Stratford Town Hall on Saturday next, is res- ' possible for the following Story; ' After the first production in Manchester of “Arms and the Man” Mr Bernard Shaw, in response to the cries of “author,” appeared on the stage I and received the customary ovatior tendei-ed to successful; authors'. 1 One dissentient there was, however,, ape 7 he showed his disapproval by booing lustily. ‘‘Yes, my friend,” said Shaw, addressing the Unsatisfied one; v “I, heartily agree * with; you. , ■ But what are we two, alone, against -so . many.” , ■ - • - fv : ' ' 115 i- I’ V- ; - Harry Lauder will, on the termination of* his two years’ tour in Africa and Australia,'betake himself to the theatre. His programme will then - consist of a dramatic and a light ■ comedy sketch, between which he will give a lengthy series of selections v from his repertoire/, In England, Mi Lauder considers, an artist has no real chance of showing his versatility | during the short time limit accorded him of an evening. In America, for instance, he personally was given the opportunity of contributing 10 songs, while here he is restricted to three >1 dr four. Under his own management he will be at liberty ,to change this state of affairs. Invited to name hi? favorite song, Mr Lauder unhesitatingly plumped for “The Saftest o’ the Family.”