PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 8, 13 December 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Dr. Grace, the late well-known cricketer, left £7278.

Mr C. G. Macartney, the international cricketer, has enlisted.

Mr W. Porter left for Trentham Camp by the mail train this morning.

Mr Henry Morgan (clerk of the Court at Marton) has been appointed clerk of the Hawera Magistrate's Court, vice Mr D. W. Mason, promoted to Dunedin.

Mr W. R. Haselden, 3.M., who is to take lip magisterial duties in Hawera district during the absence of Mr Kenrick, arrived in Hawera on Saturday evening.

Chaplain-Captain Rev. W. R. Hutchinson, of Maraekakaho, Hawke's Bay, has been appointed by the Defence Department, Presbyterian Chaplain to the 9th Reinforcements.

The body of Zaccheus Wells, a very 'old settler of New Plyouth district, 'aged 85, who was missing since Monday, was found in the He-nui river on Saturday morning about a mile from his home.

| The death occurred at Napier on .Friday morning of Mr E. W. Dorset, for many years secretary of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society. Deceased, [who was born in Wellington in 1846, leaves a widow and two sons.

Mr M. Fleming has been re-elect-ed unopposed as chairman of the Egmont County Council,- and Mr T. M. Phillips has been re-elected chairman of the Waimate West County Council.

Mr Arthur M.- Muhro, M.A„ of St. John's College, Oxford, Assistant Science Master at the Wellington Technical College, has been appointed head science master at King's College, Auckland.

Mr Jas. Young, a well-known coast',al resident and. former member of the Taranaki Education Board, is mentioned as a candidate for the seat on.the Board rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr A. M. Bradbury.

Messrs J.) Searlet arid Bethume left for Trentham by the mail train this morning. The departing soldiers were given ■< a ' heai'ty , send-off by a ; large concorse of people who were present on the railway platform. ,

A Scholarship of the value of forty guineas a year for the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, was won by Harry McDonald, of the 'Marist Brothers' School, Wanganui. The runner-up was Albert Scanlon, of the Marists' School, Wellington.—P.A.

Major Toomer, of the Salvatiou Army, is to be welcomed as the new Divisional Commander at the Army Hall, on Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m. Coupled with the Major's welcome, will be the distribution of prizes to the children of the Junior Corps of. the Salvation Army, while Lieutenant Tong will say good-bye to Stratford.

L,|M,r W,[.Browns'Hvho'for four ( yeary lluis been, a member' of Messrs! Norton land Caplen's staff, has gorie to .England (says the Hawera Star), with Ithe- intention of offering his services Jto the Home Government in the Motor Transport Corps. Previous to leaving Hawera he was made a suitable presentation Irom the firm and 'staff. Mr Brown was an active memiber of the Hawera Citizens' Band.

To commemorate the services to the [district of the late Mr T. L. Joll, a lhandsome bust of Mr Joll was, on j Wednesday last, unveiled in Joll [Park, Okaiawa, by Mr G. V. Pearce, jM.P., who paid eloquent tribute to [Mr Joll's pioneer work in the dairy 'industry. There were about 100 people present and several speeches appropriate to the occasion were made, | afternoon tea being subsequently served. ■ .

V King Ferdinand. of> Bulgaria, ' whose? personality ' eclipses?' for f the moment • all the other sinister figures of the Great War, secured his throne by a process of 'exhaustion. A (Danish prince, a Caucasian potentate, and the; King of Roumaqia; hiniself,, \yere ,among.itheVchoj^^ eTS'or 'of'therßulgari^nSjfKing'Carol >j rejected the opportunity to found'a-iWallacho-Bulgarian empire; and three delegates were finally dispatched to tour Europe for a king. One evening a member of the deputation "was drinking a glass of beer at Bonacher's Circus in Vienna, when a friend introduced him to a gentleman who professed to know the very man for the post." Next day the three delegates waited upon Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. jHe accepted the offer of the throne, on conditio* that the Grand Sobranje formally elected him and the i Powers agreed. He was elected, but .did without the sanction of the Powers.