PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Duke Kalianamoku, the Hawaiian swimming champion, arrived at Wellington last night.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt is progressing favourably after the amputation of her leg, states a Paris cablegram. A postcard which wo (Elthaur Argus) have received from Mr John Heslop, dated London, Bth January, said that he was leaving fop New Zealand in February, but the date of his sailing was not fixed.

Commissioner and Mrs Rodder, the new leaders of the Salvation Army in the Dominion, will arrive by the express train to-morrow (Thursday) night from Hawera ,where they are visiting to-/day, Brigadier and Mrs Bray (secretaries for the Men’s Social Work), Staff-Captain Gray (Young People’s Secretary for the Auckland Division), and Captain Suter (Commissioner’s private secretary), will also be inlcuded in the party of special visitors. Several prominent citizens have notified the Army officials of their intention to be present at the welcome meeting at 8 p.m., and the Municipal Band will assist by playing outside the Hall from 7.30 to 8 p.m.

The Hon. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, whose death was reported the other day from Calcutta, was horn in 1866, and was the representative of non-offi-cial members of the Bombay legislature on the Viceroy’s Legislative Council. For twenty years he devoted himself to the cause of education among his Mahratta countrymen by serving as professor in Ferguson College, Poona, on nominal pay. He was actively identified with the National Congress movement, and was president of the Indian Congress in 1905. He was the founder of the Servants of India Society. 1905, and a member of the Royal Commission on Public Services in India, 1912.