PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 64, 15 November 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Captain Cecil Lambert will succeed Admiral Pakenham as Fourth Lord of the Admiralty (states a London cablegram).

Mr Noel Carless, of Waihi, has won ran associateship in the mining and .metallurgical divisions respectively in •connection with the recent Otago University School of Mines examination. The post-graduates' position offered by the Bewisk Mreing firm of mining engineers has also" been gained by Mi- Carless.

When Miss Roosevelt was married ((states a cablegram from Washingion) the crowned heads of Europe sent gifts, whereas the Ambassadors are only presenting modest personal gifts on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Wilson, the present President's daughter. ' ,

The divorce of Prince William of ."Sweden is reported to be pending (states a cablegram from Stockholm). Court circles assert that-the relations between the couple have long been unsatisfactory. In other quarters it is alleged that the divorce is th§ otttof the recent espionage, case, wherein a Russian attache implicated Prince William. His wife recently rejoined her father, the Grand Duke Paui Alexaridrovitch, of Russia, in Paris.

Colonel Stuart Newall, who is in charge of the Wellington special mounteds, is 70 years of age, hut.is still well set up, clear-headed and energetic. He arrived in Victoria in 1863, coming afterwards to New Zealand and serving five years in the Waikato war. He was in the Ureivera campaign in 1869, and was present at the battle of Ahikeruru, and followed Te Kooti to the King Coun-

try. He was Lieut.-Colonet in charge of the Tarariaki and Wanganui dis--1 tricts in 1891 and Wellington 1893. He commanded the oth Contingent in the Boer War, and wears the Queen's Medal with four clasps, and is a Companion of the Bath.