PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 22 December 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The King gave au-Jiopoe to Admiral King-Hail and Captain Halsey, Mr Alexander Kerr, publican, Waitara, diet! on Saturday aged 48 years. He had been ailing for some time past. Mr lE. Dewar. who travelled with the New Zealand football team in America recently, has returned to Stratford.

Mr Rupert Julian, an ex-Auck-lander, who first toured Xew Zealand in the Stine-Evans Comedy Company in 1901. is now in America with his wife. The latest oews.of him is that be has made a big hit in motion pictures, in which he is engaged at Los Angeles. Mr Julian was for some time with the Julius Knight company.

Mr 1C Adlam, who, for the past two years, has been pupil teacher at Inglewoo;!, where he has done excellent work, has severed his connection with the school in order to enter the Wellington Training College. At the breaking-u'p ceremony on Friday he was farewelled by the pupils.

Mr Edgar R. AYaitc, F.L.S., curator of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, lias been appointed a director of the Adelaide Public Library Board, which controls the South Australian National Museum. Mr Waite's salary will be £'o()0 per annum. The appointment will date from March 31. (Cable).

Master L. Mail, of Midhirst, has, according to adivce to hand, passed the medical intermediate examination i in all subjects. Master Mia] will he remembered as the boy who won a University Scholarship at the Stratford School. AH will he glad to note his continued success.

Mr Geo. Groomhridge, barman at the Empire Hotel, Stratford, for over twelve months past, was the recipient on Saturday afternoon of a travelling bag and a case of pipes and pouch as a mark of esteem and respect, from a party of regular customers of the Empire, on the occasion of his departure owing to the change of proprietary of this well known hostelry.

General Godley is on his way hack to New Zealand. He left Victoria station on November Bth by the Continental boat train, to join his steamer. The High Commissioner for New Zealand was there to hid him lion voyage (states the Wellington Post's London correspondent). Mi-Mackenzie was at St. Pancras station the previous day, *faen Colonel A. W. Robin left' for Tilbury to embark on the Orient liner Orontes for Australia, en route to New Zealand."