PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 17, 23 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

-Mr J. H! Baxter, of Biggenden (Queensland) has been selected as Rhodes scholar for Queensland.

The death of Mr J. B. Bettington, the WeU-knoTYn pastoialist, is announced ■ ';., '

Mr J,-.Beaiyi formerly'of Stratford, who purchased' the I: Coffee Palace at' Kaponga. hasenlistee! for the front:! The DaHy'Telegraph's iParis correspondent reports that Madamei Sarah Bernhardt'is ill,'and is in a very critU cal condition. ! ■ •' ! " ■'•'■: • '' : '' ''■ ■' •# l ' ■' Mr W. J. Guerin, qf the Evening Poft, Wellington, a journalist wellknown in Taranaki, is at present spending a holiday in Opunake. Major Fletcher, who left New.Plymouth'with the Fifth Reinforcements,. has arrived in England, having been invalided there owing to an attack of - , Mr Newton , .King, has received a letter from his son Eliot, who is. in the Flying-Colips saying that ho has-gained his j: pilot's, certificate and was espftojing to leave for the. front almost immediately. ' i . .jfjiV,,.!*/! • -U , »-. . .-.- LancjedCorporaJ,, Bugler Healy re(turnedbittma ■by the mail tram last evening, having been granted furlough till February 28. Bugler Healy met with an accident at camp, and is only now recovering.

Mr A ; Sandilands, chief engineer

at the electric power house at NewPlymouth, has resigned his position, as he has been appointed engineer at .the • Tokomaru Bay freezing works. 'Mr H. Malt, th e assistant engineer, will act as chief engineer temporarily.

Mr Geo. Loveridge, the welf-known Tuakapa player, who ha s represented Taranaki for several seasons, and also represented New Zealand in Australia' and Carifornia, ha s been selected as a field telegraphist, and wdl be attached to the 12th Reinforcements.

Mr M. B. Bui-gin, of Malone and ' King's.staff, was successful in passing the first section of the Law Professional Examination of 1915 in Contracts, Property 1., Criminal Law and Torts. Mr Burgin commenced his studies in May last, and his performance is considered a meritorious one, more so that he is not vet out of his teens.

' Sir Edward Gibbes', Secretary for Education, will retire at the end ot March and will have three months' leave of absence before going on superannuation. Sir Edward was born in 1850, is the son of the late Sir Samuel Osborne-Gibbes, and is the third baronet since the creation of the title ' in 1774. He joined the Government service in Wellington in 1871.

Mr R. Day, of Dunedin, ha s been appointed sanitary inspector and building superintendent for the borough of New Plymouth. There were 46 applications for the position. Mr Day has beer inspector of nuisances and theatres at Dunedin for the past three years, and he has been sanitary inspector for the northern half of that town. .

At Kaponga on Wednesday, Mr R

G. Cook, Town Clerk, was married to MiBS Dorothy Williams, eldest daughter, of Mr R. Williams, of Kaponga. The ceremony was performed by the . Rev. G. E. S. Cook K assisted by the Rev. C~ Blair. After the ceremony, the party motored to Eltham, where the wedding breakfast was held. Mr and Mrs Cook left by motor for Wanganui, where the honeymoon will he spent. :