PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 49, 19 June 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The late Isaac Earnshaw's estate is valued at £29,840, a Melbourne message states.

Mr E. S. Joblin, ofr many years resident in' this district* died at. New Plymouth yesterday. The late Mr Joblin will be interred at the old Stratford Cemetery to-morrow afternoon.

Miss Rosina Buckmann's performance of "Musetta," at Covent Garden last month called down a compliment by the "Standard" critic. He spoke of her "jolly and musical performance." Wonder if London has ever heard her sing the Poi song? adds an Australian writer.

The death took place at New Plymouth yesterday of an old settler in the person of Mr E. J. Joblin. He came to the Dominion over fifty years ago, working in Canterbury, and about twenty years ago shifted to the Strathmore district. For some years past he had resided in New Plymouth.

Messrs W. Poison (chairman), F. H. Allen, E. C. Fletcher, and E. Whiteman, members of the Wanganui County Council, were in Elth'am yesterday for '• the purpose of inspecting the roads in the Eltham County. The Wanganui County has decided that they must tackle the question of better roads,»and decided to enquire fully into tar-surfacing methods, and more particularly into the merits of restar. •

On Monday morning next Dr. Rob-

ertson, who for the past twelve months has been acting as locum tenens for Dr. A. Dillon Carbery during the latter's visit to Great Britain, will leave Stratford, where he has made many friends. Dr. Robertson sails by the "Rimutaka" at the end of the present month for London. Last evening Dr. Johnston, of Dunedin, who has lately returned to the Colonies from England, arrived in Stratford, and* will succeed Dr. Robertson in charge of Dr. Carbery's practice, until the" latter's return to the Dominion. Sir Hartmann Just, K.C.8., Assistant Secretary of the Colonial Office and. Secretary of the Imperial Conferences, who is at present on a visit to New Zealand, told a Bluff interviewer that during his visit he would eschew politics entirely, and wished it to be clearly understood that although interested in all branches of Government affairs,and wishing to make him-

self acquainted with all matters under

Government control and progressive »- forms of development, he had no interest in politics in the general sense of the word. He was very much impressed with the vastness of Australia's resources, and intensely interested in all that he saw there. He visited all the i States, commencing with a Adelaide. He was very pleased indeed that he had visited Tasmania last, and was delighted with it, considering it the most picturesque part of Australia, a great deal of beauty and industry being crowded into small space. He understood that New Zealand was something on the same lines. He did Australia in twenty-eight days, and the visit there made him quite keen to draw comparisons with New Zealand.