Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 5

Personal.

Born further north than any other white child in the world,, Miss Mane Peai-v, daughter of Rear-Adiiirtl Peary, the explorer, is engaged to he married, says the Neiv York ftoilo, to Mr Donald MacMillan, who was with Peary in his dash to the Polo. Miss Peary, whose mother was the first white woman to winter with , an Arctic expedition, received in adlit-Cii to the name Marie that of Ahmgito, Eskimo for ''Snow Bird."

The- King's sister, Princess Victoria, has recently been spending an incognito holiday art a buiet piaca vc.o Margate. She was knovn in the hotel where she and her party I.vcd (says an English eontempor.uv), simply as "Miss Johnson," and her identity was not generally discovered by other holiday-makers. It is ii-jt the first time that Princess Victoria has favored the bracing air of the Kentish coast. Like Queen A.k-'.nn dra, Princess Victoria is a keen amateur photographer, and she was .iftea to he seen about with her camera.

Mr T. R. Eoydhouse, who is retiring from the editorship of the "Sunday Times" (Sydney), in order to take up farming in Auckland, was honored at a gathering of the Institute of Journalists on Saturday night (Nov. 22) states the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The chairman (Mr f. W. Heney, editor of the "Sydney Morning Herald") referred to Mr Roydhouse as a very successful and eminent journalist, to whom they wished many years of happiness and prosperity. Mr Roydhouse, in stated he had been greatly benefited in health by his recent trip, and his nerve troubles were now ended. Although he was to engage in •farming, it did not necessarily %1 lowthat he would cease to be a journalist.

Dr. Averill, Bishop-elect of Auckland, arrived in the northern city from Napier by the Main Trunk express on Saturday, on a three days' visit. In the afternoon his Lordship consecrated the chapel which has been erected at the Children's Home in memory of the late Sister Cecil. morning he held an Ordination Service, when the- following seven candidates for the office of deacon were presented :—Messrs F. A. Crawshawe, C. E. Kelsham, J. Pigott, L. D. Briscoe, H. A. Johnson, E. L. Harvie, and Hoiri Raiti (George Wright). He will leave for the South by Monday evening's express.—P.A.

Mr Herbert Booth, the youngest son of the late General Booth, who has been conducting evangelistic irissions in various parts of the woivl since he severed his connection with the Salvation Army, went to Soush Africa early in the fear in order to engage in evangelistic mission work in the larger 'centres of population. After successful meetings in iCapetown, East London, Worcester, and "Wellington, he proceeded to Kimberley, and opened a campaign, btit the mission was abandoned, as Mr Booth was smitten with rheumatic fever. For six weeks he was confined to the Kimberloy Hospital, and for several months since he was too weak to undertake any public engagements. He was sufficiently strong to travel at the end. of September, and he left Capetown for England by the Guildford Castle.