PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 27, 7 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram says the amount of the late Mr Kerr Hardie's estate was .proved at £426.

The appointment of Adjutant Cook to the Thames has been cancelled by headquarters, and Adjutant Cook will now remain in Stratford.

The death of -Mr E. John Thomas, the last survivor of the forty-men who first discovered gold in Victoria in 1851. is reported from Melbourne. Corpora] Tuahae Carroll ha s been killed in action states a P.A. message from Gisborne. Deceased was the adopted son of Sir James and Lady Carroll.

Lieutenant Furby and Trooper T. Malone arrived from Auckland, via. New Plymouth, by the mail train this morning. On arrival, th e Mayor (Mr J. \V. Boon) extended a hearty welcome to the two returned soldiers on behalf of the citizens of Stratford.

Privates W, Rowson and Booker, wjio have been invalid home ir..m the Dardanelles, arrived in Stratford by the mail train last eveni-ig. On alighting from the carriage the men were welcomed by His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. W. Boon) and were afterwards conveyed to their homes in Mr A. J. Davey's motor car.

Mr E. H. Robinson, second son of Mr R. H. Robinson, of Stratford, who has held an important position with Farmer and Co., Ltd., Sydney, for over three years; has enlisted in the Hon. Mr Carmichael's. Riflemen Brigade. This makes two of Mr Robinson's sons who have responded to the Call of Duty to the Empire.

Mr J. Montgomerie, who has been away for about nine months on a visit to his brothers in South'Africa, returned this morning. Mrs Montgomerie, who went as far as Sydney to meet her husband and has been spending a few weeks with her brother,\Mr E. H. Robinson, in that city, also returned.

Mr Winston Churchill has a double who is a waiter in a Plymouth hotel. It is a rather remarkable fact that Mr Churchill's doughty opponent, Lord Charles Beresford, ' also possesses' a double is a waiter who is his exact counterpart. As a matter of fact, we probably all have doubles somewhere or the other. King Edward has quite a lot. King George and the Czar of Russia are very like eacU other, and there is a gentleman in Massachusetts who is exactly like Colonel Roosevelt, even to the teeth and the smile, which really is surprising. George du Maurier and Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema, Jules Ferry, the French statesman, and William Whiteley. Lord Tennyson and Sir Leslie Stephen, the late Pierpont Morgan and Jem Mace, supply examples of notorious doubles.

. Among the officers of the 16th (Irish) Division are Captain W. H. K. Redmond, M.P., the brother, and Lieutenant W. Archer Redmond, M.P., the son, of Mr John Redmond. Other well-known Nationalists now serving in the Army are Lieutenant Raymond Redmond, Captain D. U. Sheehan.. M.P.. Captain Stephen Gwynn, M.P., Captain J. D. Esmonde, M.P.. and Lieutenant T..M. Kettle. Cantain William Redmond, who is the nephew of the late General John Patrick Redmond, returns to the Royal Irish Regiment, in which he served thirty-three years ago hefore entering the House of Commons. Two nephews of Mrs William Redmond. Messrs James "and Thomas Dalton, are now serving in the New South Wales Contingent in the Dardanelles.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, writing under date December 11th with reference to his son. Trooper Clutha Mackenzie, who was blinded in the fighting at the Dardaneibs, says : "It is indeed a terrible thing for a young fellow of twenty lo be deprived of his sight, and when I see him it goes to one's heart to see him sitting in that condition. He takes it, however, so splendidly that he helps us more than I can tell. He will not admit that blindness is half so serious as we think it is. He is determined to learn everything within his power and intends to show that it is possible for a man without sight to take his stand in the world. He has had rather a had turn of enteric, hut is now getting over it. The people here are very kind. Mr Pearson, of Pearson's Magazine, who. as you probably know, is himself blind, has been exceedingly kind to Clutha, and visited him every week when he 'was in hospital at Walton."