Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 5

Personal.

Mr Tom Adarason, who won the Xew Zealand Cross for valor in the Maori Avar', and who was very veil known throughout tho Dominion, died ai, Wanganui yesterday.

Tamu, the well-known Taranaki representative footballer,* who underwent » serious operation in New Plmouth, lias returned to his home at Okato.

Mr Selby Morton, secretary of tne Wangahuv Agricultural Association, is lying seriously ill. He is Buffering froni heart trouble, and is not expected 10 recover, states a Press Association telegram.

The death has occurred of the widow of Prince Leopold of HohenzollernSigmaringe.i, to whom the Spanish throne was offered, ultimately causing the'Franco-German War.

The Czarevitch's condition is now causing uneasiness probably owing to an effusion of blood- by over exertion (states a Press Association cablegram), and he must be kept in a recumbent position.

Mr Victor Beck, the well-known theatrical agent, was in Stratford to-day making arrangements for the appearance of "The Smart Set" in the Town Hall, Stratford, on Thursday, January Bth.

The Times' Cairo correspondent says that he has the best authority for declaring that Viscount Kitchener will assume the Viceroyalty of India m the near future.— Times-Sydney Sun cable.

Mr Frank Sabin, of London, has purchased from a Dutch family Rembrandt's ivory palette knife and tor-toise-shell mahlstick. A scroll accompanies the relics, bearing the autograph signature of every.owner since Rembrandt's death.

Air John Evershed, Director of the Kodia Canal Observatory in Southern India, is a passenger by the Orvieto due on Thursday, says a Sydney Press \ssociation cablegram. He is en route, to Nelson, New Zealand, to report on the proposed solar observatory to be established there.

Mr Thomas Gresham, for many sears coroner at Auckland, has announced that, he will be a candidate for the, Auckland West scat at the next Parliamentary election. Mr Gresham states that he will continue to help the, workers and will direct his energies towards advancing the Liberal party under the leadership of, Sir Joseph Ward. • ~ , , . ~ .

'Mr' G. (iirling-Butcher, who retired from the Mines Department a few months ago to become organiser and secretary of the New Zealand Catholic Federation, has been presented by Ins late colleagues with a substantial cheque as a token of their esteem and regard, and at the same time they expressed sincere regret at the continued ill-health which* necessitated his retirement from the service.