Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 92, 9 April 1914, Page 5

Personal.

The staff of the “Stratford Post” yesterday afternoon gathered around the “stone” for the purpose of making a presentation to Mr Goodwin Ford, prior to his entering the ranks of the Benedicts. There was a large and distinguished gathering of Australians at the Trocadero, London, states a cablegram to-day, at the reception to Sir R. C. Munro-Ferguson (Governor-Gen-eral designate) and Lady Munro-Fer-guson, those present including the Agents-Generals and their wives, when a Wattle Day League was organised. Monsignor Bonaventura Cerrctti, who lias been appointed the Pope s representative for Australasia, ui have the same powers as M. Bonzano in the United States. His powers will depend upon the terms of his delegation, but it is probable that he will transact a good deal of the business of the Church which is at present handled by the Congregation, a body corresponding in some measure to the Government Departments of the Civil Powers. Thus he will settle many points in the control of the dioceses which otherwise would go direct to Rome for decision.

Mr H W. Bishop, the senior Magistrate in New Zealand by seven years, has 41 years behind him m the 'service of the Government, andl 32 years on the bench, yet for all this, as he lugubriously complained on Saturday night, he has nothing to show but a bald head, an increasing girth, and a very ripe experience of the underworld (reports the Lyttelton Times). He was in reminiscent vein, and he recalled the days m We., lington when Sir James Carroll entered the service as a raw cadet from the country. “He was very unsophisticated in every respect but one,” said Mr Bishop. “He played the hottest game of billiards, and in my unregenerate days I knew something about billiards.”

Mr Harry Lauder has experienced in his remarkable career the depression of loneliness in a strange city; and at luncheon at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, he told the company about it. It was when he first went to London from Scotland, 14 years ago. 1 It was true, he said, that he was hailed as a new artist in the theatre, but when he put on his ]iat and- went out into the throng he realised that nobody knew him, nobody took any notice of him, and that his success did not interest anybody except two persons—his wife and himself. “There was a loyal heart waiting at home in Scotland for news; and 1 dare say there was not a prouder soul in the world when I sent up a little letter, saying that I had made my debut in London, and was a great success. I said, further, in that letter: T can see you riding in your carriage and pair through Hyde Park,’ for after my success that was my next ambition, to give my wife a ride through Hyde Park, among the gentry. Well,, she had that ride throilgh Hyde Park,” he continued, amid cheering.