Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6, 7 January 1914, Page 5

Personal.

Mr Harry Jenkins and Mrs Jenkins have returned to Eltham from tlieir Home tour alter an absence of abouft eleven months.

Mr E. Clifton, director of the Fields and Experimental Farms Division of the Agricultural Department, will represent the New Zealand Government at the Panama Exhibition.

Captain F. H. Lampen, of the Now

Zealand Staff Corps, who is area offi- . cer. in charge at Nelson, and was lately stationed in Stratford, will leave for England this week, accompanied by Mrs Lampen.

Mr T. Takahashi, representing the Japanese Government woollen mills at Tokio, is at present in New Zealand attending the wool sales. Mr Takahashi is the first Japanese to attend wool sales in the. Dominion.

Mr Carraty, of Wellington, replaces Mr Noye as railway permanent way inspector at Stratford. Mr Noye, who has been in Taranaki for about five years, now takes up relieving duties, taking his first duty in Christchurch.

The Premier of West Australia has been advised that Sir Harrnian Just, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and secretary of the last Imperial Conferon<v, .vill anive in March from South Africa on an official visit to Australia and New ■ Zealand.—Perth cable.

Adjutant and Mrs Simpson, who

have been in charge of the local corps 'of the Salvation Army for about eighteen months, have received notice of transfer to Whangarei, and they will ho replaced here by Adjutant and Mrs Tatton, of Inglewood. The departing officers will be 'farewelled" on Sunday next.

Mr E. C. Huie, consequent . upon his appointment as editor of "The Sun," ' the new Christchurch evening paper, which makes its first appearance at the end of this month, has resigned his official connection with the New Zealand Political Reform League and his seat on the national executive of that organisation.

Mr C. Potts and Mrs Potts, of Eltham, left last evening for New Plymouth, en route for Tauranga, where Mr Potts will enter into possession of the Star Hotel. The Argus remarks : Mr Potts has been a good townsman in Eltharri, ever ready to assist local movements, and did his share of work on the Borough Council when it was first formed.

Professor Evershed, director of the Kockukanal observatory in Southern TndLi, arrived at Wellington by the Maunganui to-day. A Press Assooiatioa message states that he has come to Xew Zealand to advise on the proposed Cawthron Observatory at Xelson. ;

Lord Rochdale, managing director of Kelsall and Kemp, Lancashire woolien manufacturers, has arrived in.;Sydney on a tour of Australia to inquire into the wool trade with a view to extending the firm's operations. After a, visit to Queensland, Lord Rochdale goes to New Zealand, states a Sydney cablegram.

Alban Jasper Conant,. for whom Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait before he became President, recently celebrated his ninety-third birthday in the New York studio which he has occupied for more than 30 years. Active in mind, he still enjovs fairly good health, and every day finds him busy with his brush. During the Civil War ho was commissioned to paint many celebrated officers and notabilities of the day.

Prince Arthiir of Connaught headed the Mission that was despatched by King Edward to hand the Order of the Garter to the late Emperor of Japan, and he has many amusing incidents to recount in connection with his journey. He was received with an enthusiasm wherever he went that 1 was at times embarrassing. He is afraid. he says, to recall the number of meals he was expected to eat, and the number of speeches he had to make in the course of a day. It struck.him, therefore, as particularly appropriate when he halted at a gaily-decorated wayside railway station, to find a streamer stretched across the platform, which said in English, "God Heip Prince Arthur!"

A familiar figure in Wairoa for many years, "Davey Diamond," passed away recently at Lis home on the east side of the river near Te Uhi. He was the son of an old pioneer, of Te Wairoa in the early whaling days, David Gemmell or Gamble, known by the soubriquet of "Scotch Jock." His mother was a woman of high rank among the Ngatikahungumi, who afterwards, as was common in the pre-pakeha days, became the wife of the Kurupakiaka chief, Hamana Tiakiwai, and died only a few years ago.. When, a youth of eighteen he joined the'Armed Constabulary No. 1 division, and served three years, seeing much active service under Captain Whitmore and other officers on the West Coast. He was present at the battle of Ngutu-o-to Manu on September 7th, 1868, when the gallant Von Tempsky was killed, nlong with Captains Buck and Palmer, Lieutenants Hunter and Hastings. T'nr» old soldier's war medal only arrived on the dav of his death.