PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

, # Dr. de Renzi, the well-known Ciiristchurch surgeon, died yesterday. The Premier of Saskatchewan, the Hon. W. Scott, is en route to New Zealand for a lengthy holiday. The Duke of Artmo, aged 24, is engaged to Miss Francess Hanan, 54, the American philanthropist, states a Times—Sydney Sun special cablegram from Xew York. The deatli of Commander Gordon of the torpedo destroyer, The Thrasher, was due to a chill contracted during the search for the submarine A 7. states a London cablegram. Mr G. A. M. Davidson, chairman of the Tauranga Harbor Board, and formerly for eighteen years chairman of the Tauranga County Council, and a successful farmer for over thirty years in the district, died to-day, says a Press Association telegram.

Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, who passed away yesterday, had been High Commissioner for Canada since 1896, and was the son of Mr Alexander Smith, of Archieston, Scotland. He was born in 1820, and at an early age entered the service of tho Hudson's s.[ Bay Company, subsequently becoming the last Resident Governor o- that corporation. During the first Riel rebellion in the Red River Settlements he acted as special commissioner, and was thanked for his services by the Governor-General. From IS7O till 1896 he took a prominent part in Canadian politics, and he was also honorary president of the Bank of Montreal, a director of the Canadian-Paci-fic and other railways, besides being Chancellor of the MrGjll, Montreal and Aberdeen Universities. He raised "Strathcona's Horse" for service in the South African war, and will longlie remembered as a munificent benefactor, as well as a man who maintained marvellous activity almost to the close of his exceptionally long life. It will be remembered that he and Lord Mount Stephen gave £200,000 to found the Victoria Hospital at Montreal, as a memorial of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. He was raised to the peerage in 1897. the year following his assumption of the office of High Commissioner. A cable from Ottawa ays : Flags are everywhere flying halfmast for the death of Lord Strathcona, and tributes of mourning are universal throughout Canada.