PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

, ,Mr J. B. Hine, M.P.. left for Wel- . lington by the mail train this morning. Sergeant A. S. Davis, who last week received notice to report himself at Trentham to-morrow, left for Wellington, by the mail train this morning. Mr Norman J. Porter, son of Mrs Margaret Porter, of Stratford, cabled that he had arrived on Friday at London after an exciting voyage. Mi" Porter is joining the Motor Transport Section of Kitchener's Army. Mr, Patton, of the Whanga Post Office, has been transferred to Hawera. On Monday afternoon about 20 ladies met at Mr-s Dean's tearooms to ..say good-bye to Mrs Patton, and Mrs H. Strombom, on behalf of the ladies, presented Mrs Patton with a beautiful salad bowl, and expressed the general regret at having to part with Mrs Patton. Mrs Patton suitably replied. , Many New Zealanders will regret tojearn of the death of Mr J. Keir Hardie. the famous English Labor Parliamentarian, owing to an attack of pneumonia at the age of 59. He had an interesting career. He earned his bread in a coalpit at eight years of aye. and learned to write shorthand with a piece "of stick on a tile smoked over his pit lamp. In 1882, at the age of 26, he took up journalism, and entered Parliament as member for West Ham in 1892. He founded the Independent Labour Party, and later sat for Merthyr Tydvil from 1900-1906, and onward. In 1907 he made a tour round the world and caused considerable stir in various places in Australia, India, and South Africa by his speeches.