Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1914, Page 5

Personal.

The Meckeenburg-Schwerin divorce petition was dismissed, states a London cablegram. The Court decided that it had no jurisdiction.

F. J. Ouimet, the sensational young golfer who recently won for America the open golf championship against England's best, is a six-foot youngster of twenty years, a native of Brookline, Massachusetts. His father is a FrenchCanadian, and his mother is of Irish ! descent. Ouimet was a caddy at the Brookline Country Club for four years, i and has been a salesman in Boston for the last three years.

Mr W. A. Low, advance for the Royal Pantomime Company, to-day, for a brief spell illuminated the sanctum sanctorum like the morning's sunshine. It was good to hear "Billy" recounting the successes of "Old Mother Hubbard" ; how even on the West Coast of the South Island packed houses marked their tour. Mr Low looks forward with confidence to seeing the local Town Hail crowded when the panto, is staged on the evening of Tuesday next, 24th ins^,

Mrs Abbott relinquished possession of the Stratford Hotel at closing time last night. Mrs Abbott is well known, her late husband having been licensee for six years of the Whangamomona Hotel, for a short time of the Toko Hotel, and for a time previous to his death of the Stratford Hotel. Pending securing another licensed house Mrs Abbott and her family will reside on their property at > Whangamomnria. The new licensee, Mr Fred Whittle, is a brother of Mr E. Whittle, of the Red House Hotel, New Plymouth. He is well known as a gun shot of New Zealand championship standard, and is an enthusiastic trout fisher and good "sport" generally.

Philipp Schneidemann, on whose shoulders has fallen the mantle of the late August Bebel as leader of the German Socialists, has gone to the United States to remain for two months, and will be heard on the lecture platform in the East and as far west as Denver. He speaks no English, as he was taken to the United States by the German language group of the Socialist party. He is against violence of all kinds, having no sympathy with syndicalism and the I.W.W. movement. Herr Schneidemann was for eleven years the lieutenant of Bebel and lias been a member of the Reichstag for thirty-five years. In appearance he is dignified, and might easily be taken for a German university professor. ■