PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

An equestrian statue to the late King Edward has been unveiled in the Rue Edouard, Paris. The figure is in bronze, executed by Landowski,

and represents the King in the uniform of a field-marshal. was significant of the affectionate memory held by Parisians (states a Times— Sydney Sun cablegram) that the tophatted throng from the English colony was outnumbered by French people of all classes.

The, Hon. James Allen is at present in Dunedin, where he will remain for the greater part of this week.

The death is announced from London of the Rev. Owen Jones, the original “Slogger Williams,” of “Tom Brown’s Schooldays.”

The executive of the Public Ser-

vice Association is supporting the candidature of Mr George Allport, Secretary of Marine; Mr H. W. Bishop. S.M., of Christchurch; and Mr J. W. MacDonald, solicitor to the Public Trust Office, Wellington, for election as members of the/ Public Service Superannuation Board.—-Wel-lington P.A.

Lord Denman leaves “Australia in dune. Mr Cook (Prime Minister) knows no reason, excepting indifferent health, for Lord Denman's retirement. He does not believe that his exclusion from the Sydney Government House had anything to do with

j Major-General Godley.is at present at Hamilton, where he will act as judge of the staff tour of Territorial ( officers, to be held this week. This ! ‘ Dominion drive,” as it is called, will j be carried out on a war footing, except that the troops will be absent. , There will be two armies, the Red and the Blue, and, the operations will extend all over the district between Hamilton and Cambridge. Over 100 officers will attend the operations, which will continue over several days. The Rev. Barton H. Ginger, Methodist minister at the Hntt, died lest evening after an illness which had lasted some time. He was about 53 years of age, and had been 25 years m Xow Zealand. He leaves a widow and four children. Air Ginger formerly belonged to the Bible Christian Church, and then joined the Methodist Church. For some time past states a "Wellington R.A. telegram) he had been ministerial treasurer of the Children’s Fund of the Methodist V Connexion. J*