Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 5

Personal.

The Rt. Hon. Lord O'Brien, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Ims resigned j owing to ill-health; states a London cablegram.^ Mr A. E. Eastwood was in town today making arrangements tor the appearance of the Bee-Lee Polites in the Town Hall, Stratford, on AYednesday, November 26th. Baron Bonde, Speaker of the Second Chamber in Sweden, died of apoplexy, caused by learning of. his wife's sudden death after he had had an afternoon walk with her, states a cablegram from Stockholm. The Right Hon. A. Fischer, Minister for the Interior and for Lands in the Union Government, is dead, reports a Capetown cablegram. Harry Lauder, the well-known singer of Scotch comic songs, will make his first appearence at the Glasgow Pavilion 'after his tour of the world. His salary for the engagement will be £1125 per week. Mr J. D. C. Crewe, son of the late Mayor of Pahiatua, and a councillor for several terms, was at a special meeting of the Borough Council last night unanimously elected Mayor for the remainder of the Mayor's term. —P.A. The death has occurred at Westport of Mr William James Ferguson, of Charleston, well known in the early days of the goldfields of Otago as "Big Bill," and sometimes "Black Bill," on account of his dark complexion. The deceased received a paralytic stroke about three months ago, and a third and final one came this week. Mr Ferguson went to Dunedin from Victoria in the first trip of the ship Lightning, about 50 years ago, and was one of the party who found the prospectors at Skipper's Creek. He went to the West Coast in the year 1866, and remained there ever since. He was a very old member of the Masonic fraternity, having been one of the foundation members of Lodge Kilwinning, established at Charleston about 45 years ago. He was also an active member of the Foresters' Society, having been attached to Court Charleston for the last 40 years. The relatives of the deceased have received testimonies of sympathy from all parts of New Zealand. »