PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 25, 4 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. E. Daniell has been re-elected, unopposed, to the chairmanship of the Wellington Harbor Board. General Toffre personally decorated General Sir l;m Hamilton with the Legion ol Honor, in the presence of vHe battle-stained Verdun division. A London cable states that the King, at a Drury Lane Theatre matinee, knighted Mr ?. 11. Benson, the eminent Shakesperian actor, who is retiring from the stage.

Captain Jensen, for several years master of the Mokau Steamship pane’s coastal steamer Tainni, is about to go on extended holiday leave, during which lie will visit Melbourne.

Cable advice lias been received from Tasmania of the death there last, week of Rev. G. Allenson, a former resident .of Owata. pnd for a brief period of member .of the Taranaki County Council.

The members of the “Within the Law” Dramatic Company arfiVed in Stratford this morning, and will make their first appearance at the Town Hall this evening in “The 'Man Who Stayed at Home.”

Mr A. J. Morton, inspector of schools and secretary of the Westland Education Board for the past twentyone years, arid for some time past senior inspector of the combined Grey and Westland districts has received noiice ; 'Of Iris transfer as senior inspector in the Taranaki educational district. . ■, ,i ■ - • j.i Mrs Lumsden, of Lepperton, has received news that her brother' Capt. Jas. Cameron, of the Seventh Wellington Regiment, has been, promoted to the rank of Major. Major Cameron left for Egypt with the Main Expeditionary Force, and has been in charge of the Abbassia Detention Barracks at Cairo.

The ranks of the early pioneers of Canterbury have been further reduced by the death of Mr Charles B. M. Morse. Born in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, Mr Morse, when quite a .young man, sailed for Xew Zealand in the ship Tiptree, on October 20, 1863, arriving at Lyttelton on January 20, 1864. After forty-two years’ continuous service on the railway. he retired on superannuation.

The following Defence Staff changes are announced :—Lieut.-Colonel H. E. Bilking, Adjutant-General, joins the expeditionary force and will be succeeded by Colonel R. W. Tate, commanding the Wellington military, district; Colonel J. E. Hume, commanding the Auckland district, succeeds Colonel Tate; and Colonel G. W. S. Paterson, lately acting-administrator at Samoa, assumes command of the Auckland district.