PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 55, 5 November 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. J. Pattison lias received intimation from the Defence Headquarters in Wellington that he has been appointed chaplain in the Laud Forces of New Zealand. Rev. Thus. Scott, ALA., resigned the charge of the Rotorua Presbyterian Church owing to continual ill-health. He is succeeded by Rev. W. White, of Waihi. Air Albert Coppell, a well-known Melbourne business man, won nearly £40,000 ou the double, Aurifer and Posinatus, for the two Cups, states a Sydney cablegram. The friends of Air Edwin Bennett will regret to learn of the* death of his wife, which occurred after a short illness at the Stratford Hospital this morning.

Air John Farley, the deceased strike-breaker of Xew York, was a millionaire, and his money was earned by breaking more than fifty strikes in the last ten years in all parts of the United States. He started life as a circus boy. One of the guiding principles of Farley’s life was never to oppose any strike until he had satisfied himself that the masters were in the right. Then he would throw his army of over 1500 men into the fight, paying their wages and expenses, and receiving Ids remuneration from the “employers. He ruled Ids army with iron discipline, and he was implicitly obeyed. He obtained his recruits from different tramway-car companies throughout the United States. In the liiterhorough railway strike in Xew York his profits exceeded £60,000.