PERSONAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 65, 18 March 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The presentation of a silver cradle is to be made to the Mayor of Stratford, Mr G. Sangster, on April T.Mr T- M. Wilford, M.P., has definitely announced that he will be a candidate' for' the Wellington Mayoralty. The name of Mr E. O. Meroefy is mentioned amongst the possible candidates for the vacancies on the Borough Council. Mr AVitty, M.P. for Biccarton, underwent an operation for appendicitis at a private hospital on Tuesday. He is progressing favorably. The death is reported of Pokai Rupe, chief of the Ararata jm, which event occurred on Wednesday. Pokai had been ailing for a long time. Mr J. B. Clarkson, the well-known cycle agent, was a visitor to Dannevirke yesterday. Mr Clarkson leaves on a trip to England and the Continent next month.

Sergeant Smart, of Hastings, has been granted three months' leave of absence from March 31, and at the end of the period of leave he retires on superanmiatioil. His Excellency the Governor and the Hon. Geo. Fowlds were at Hokitika on Wednesday. They paid a visit to Ross yesterday, and are visiting Kumara to-day.

Dr H. Pollen, of Wellington, is a passenger for New Zealand by the P. and O. steamer Mongolia. Mr Spencer Gollair, formerly of Hawke's Bay, is also a passenger by the Mongolia. Mr T. llonayne, general manager of the New Zealand Railways, arrived from Wellington by the Maori on Wednesday morning, and left Christchurch by the first express for Invercargill. In view of last week's cable news of the death of the Earl of Carirwath, the following item, from an Engilsh paper, is of special interest: —There is at present serving on a certain P. and 0. liner a voting and zealous officer known, as Mr Ronald Arthur Dalzell, who in real life bears the title of Lord Dalzell and Liberton, heir to Lord Carnwath, a Scottish earl. He is not the earl, however, who has served in the mercantile marine. The present Earl of Egmont and the late Earl of Aberdeen both served before the mast, while the present Lord Lyveden was at one time a ship's steward.