PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

A London cable says that Mr Hughes has been made a Privy Councillor. The death is announced of Mr James Cair, the notable Scottish benefactor. A Sydney cable announces the death of Mr John Moore Terrier, a. yeteran'journalist, formerly of NewZealand,

Miss C. W. Christie, the well-known lecturer on Theosophy, after an enjoyable stay in Stratford, where several lectures were delivered, left for Hawera this afternoon by train.

The Hon. Dr. McNab goes to Hamilton to-day to be present at the trial of the action brought against him for defamation by the returning officer at the last election in the Taumarunui district.

A cablegram from Amsterdam announces that Prince Joachim, youngest son of the Kaiser, was married to Princess Marie of Anhalt. The Fmpress was present, but the Kaiser was absent.

The!death occurred at Auckland on , Thursday of Mr John Langmnir, Gov- | ernment inspector of surveys, at Ins. residence, .Hamilton Road,. .Ponsonby., The cause-of death ik .attributed ~,to; heart- failure.' The. 1/deceased," • wlm., was; 6L years;of age. l Zealand;' from Melbourne 54,.. years ago. • ■ !'(•'.•!

A private telegram received in Wellington, on Friday announced the death in Auckland, on- Thursday night of Mr, Edward George Britten Moss, barrister and solicitor, who at one time represented Ohinemui in the House of Representatives. Tbe deceased was admitted to the Par on October 15, 1877. and afterwards practised, at Greymouth, Tanranga, Paeroa: and Auckland.

Lieutenant Vernon Crawshaw. while recuperating at Brighton. England, ' after three months' illness in a London,bo.spitaL.Tiud the novel ex-perience-frfor,. a;, New I( Zcalaju|er : -:of. ascending .many thousand?; of feet in, an aeroplane, travelling ninety, miles an hour and taking some,; photographs while, up,, in the air.. He states the view was wonderful and the sensation lovely. He was just about rejoining his regiment, but unfortunately, according to a cable received yesterday, he, is now back again in hospital suffering from another dysentery relapse.