PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 29 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Madame Bernard returned this morning from a visit to Auckland.

The Hon. James Allen is still, owing tu illness, unable to carry out his Parliamentary duties.

Mr and Mrs J. Robson, Mr and Mrs C. Robson, and Miss Aggie Robson returned by this morning’s mail train from a visit to Auckland.

Miss Lili Boulanger, who won the Grand Prix de Rome for vocal music this year, is the first woman who has (ever carried off this honor. She is 19 years old, the same age at which her father won the prize which she has been awarded. Her vocal training, begun by her father, has been continued by her mother since the former’s death.

Mr Arthur Pilcher, who for some time has held the position of cashier in the Stratford branch of the Bank „f New Zealand left by this morning’s train for Masterton, having been ■transferred to the bank’s branch there. At -the Club Hotel last night he was formally bidden farewell by a number of his friends. Mr P. Burgess presided over the gathering and presented Mr Pilcher with a case of pipes as a token of the esteem in which he is held by his Stratford friends.