PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 37, 5 June 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Pope Pjus X. entered upon his 80th year on Tuesday. He was elected on August 4, 1903.

Mp Jack London, the author, is seriously ill at Vera Cruz with intestinal trouble. .

Mr Arthur Thomas Bothamley, cleplc-assistant of the Legislative Counbeen! appointed GentlemanUftfcer of the Black Rod. i

Mr Gr. H. Buckeridge, of the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Association, has returned from his trip to England (states the Eltbam Argus). Ho, .soys that. he was successful in making . business arrangements, which he* Relieves will prove to the great advantage of his Association; the nature of these arrangements will not be made public until he has laid t ; fa©m before the members.

’A. large gathering of Canterbury journalists assembled yesterday afternoon in Christchurch to make a pre-, sentation to Mr S. Saunders, who retires this month from the editorship of the "Lyttelton Times.” Mr W. H. Triggs, editor of "The Press,” Christchurch, presided, and in the course of a speech referred to the sterling services rendered by Mr Saunders to his party. Mr W. H. Atack, editor of the "Canterbury Times,” and Mr R. Bell, of Ashburton, also spoke appreciatively of Mr Saunders as a journalist and a friend. Mr Saunders, in reply, returned sincere tbahks for the presentation, and for the very kind references made to him.

•Mr James Larkin, who has just been elected president of the Irish Trade Union Congress, at Dublin, is to visit New Zealand towards the latter end of the year. Mr P. H. Hickey, secretary of the United Federation of Labor, has just received intimation from the secretary of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union, at Dublin, that Mr Larkin will arrive in the Dominion about September, and he purposes delivering a series of lectures throughout the country. He has a double object in view—to carry out propaganda work in connection with the Labor movement, and to raise funds to develop co-operative enterprises in Dublin. He will also lecture on the need for new unionism. Mr Larkin is known as the “Irish Labor King,” and he was very prominent in connection with the recent Dublin strikes. He was sentenced to imprisonment on a charge of sedition, and was subsequently released.