Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, 2 January 1914, Page 5

Personal.

Mr A. D. Blick left for Wellington this morning on a business visit extending until Wednesday.

Mr J. Fitzgerald’s condition has somewhat improved, and it' is hoped that the corner has been turned, though he had a very close call. His illness, sunstroke combined with heart trouble, is a particularly trying one.

Several newspapers have published a paragraph to the effect that Sir James Carroll intends retiring from political life. In an interview the other day, Sir James stated that there was no ground whatever for the statement. He intends to toe the mark at the generlll election. .

The Hon. James Allen - (Minister for Finance) is expected to arrive in Auckland on Sunday on a brief visit before, proceeding to Rotorua, where he purposes spending some little while recuperating his health, which suffered considerably during the rigours of the past session.

The Czarewitch, says an eye-witness (according to a Times-Sydney Sun cablegram), has been miraculously transformed into a bright rosy-cheeked buoyant boy, who enjoys boyish antics. Physicians expect that the left leg, which has a stiff knee, will soon become supple.

Mr B; Williamson, Home Missioner at Toko, is being transferred to Aw- , hitu, Auckland. He will preach fareAvell messages in Huiroa, Toko Road, and Toko on Sunday. Mr Lilliewall, of Awhitu, succeeds Mr JVilliamson. He is expected in Toko about the end of January.

Mr Will Lawson, the New Zealand versifier, whose several books of verse have had a wide vogue, is to receive further publicity through the medium of Messrs Angus and Robertson’s “Snowy River Series” of Australian verse, that firm (says the Post) having decided to publish as part of the series “The Three Kings, and Other Ner-

ses,” which will include a collection

of the best work by Mr Lawson, who * is the first New Zealand writer to be honored.

Mr Evelyn Ellis, who died recently in England, was the first man to on n and drive a motor car in England. This was in 1895, and the car was a five-horsepower French machine. Mr Elli;f brought; the car to England that he alight be summoned by the police and so hath attention drawn to the absorl laws that hampered the development 6f mechanical transit. Mr Frederick Simms, the founder of the Automobile >Glub, dias given an interesting account-ofi the car’s first long run in England'. Fifty-six miles were covered in five and a half-hours, givig an average speed of roughly +en miles, and the run was most enjoyable.

The death o» uirred on Monday morning of Mr William Mclntyre, who for many years was a prominent/figure in the streets of Whangarei. The deceased gentleman arrived in Whangarei in the late fifties with the 57th Regiment, and saw service in the Maori wars in Taranaki and Waikato. H!e has resided in Whangarei district ofr twenty-six years, and in Greymouth for a considerable time, where he was engaged as a miner and foreman of quarries. During his service in the army he earned the decorations for the Crimean, Indian Mutiny, and New Zealand wars. During portion of the construction of the Christchurch-sonth-wards Main Trunk railway line Mr McIntyre was an inspector under the Public Works Department.. The deceased left a widow and a large *auu!y.

The Dean of Guernsey is 93, and still in active work. It is 60 years since he first went to the Vale parish in Guernsey, and he still takes two services every Sunday, preaching the morning sermon in French and the evening discourse in English. He breakfasts summer and winter at 8, and is in his garden by 9. Then a walk round his farm is his greatest pleasure, for he takes some trouble in order that his breed of Guernsey cattle may be well looked after. In the spring he receives a visit from many American cattle buyers, but he is loth to sell, and puts a very large price upon each animal. The dealers are not to lie disappointed, and generally pay the price demanded. The Dean is a great debater in the local States. He never misses a meeting, and is ever ready to battle in words on questions concerning taxing the people. In the island of Guernsey he is generally revered. He is a believer in a very light lunch, this meal usually consisting of a glass of marsala and a sandwich or' two.